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For and Against IFRS

approach, good for business and investors, and has even been criticised in terms if the way the International Accounting Standards...

Lance Armstrong and the notion 'Its Not About the Bike'

on Armstrongs body but the real heroics are attributable to the man and to the body itself! Armstrong was diagnosed with te...

Analysis of McDonald's Performance

Wrapper To Show Fat, Calories, Wall Street Journal, Vol. 246 Issue 88, pB1-B3, 2p This article looks at the operations of McDonald...

Clinical or Counseling Practice Personality Assessments

can be understood through as an extension of Kellys Personal Construct Theory, which suggests that individuals sometimes demonstra...

Accounting at Three Companies

seen with the balance sheets. The figures for former years of 2002 and 2001 in the Microsoft figures may vary from the last report...

Krispy Kreme and Ethical Accounting Practices

and give an appearance of a sounder and more asset backed company. The first is with the repurchase of some franchises, for a pric...

Employee Stock Option Schemes in Accounting

of other standards I the past (Anonymous, 2005). In order to assess the impact of this and why the new standard is seen in such a ...

Gospel Accounts of Jesus's Anointing

a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me" (Matt. 26:10-11). Jesus goes on ...

Ethics and Management Accounting

Arcticview -- an Overview This particular case study was presented by management accountant Grant Russell in a 1996 editio...

Cuban Missile Crisis and Conflict Between Canada and the United States

course, had definitely heard of us. Unfortunately, a significant portion of their actions during this crisis was structured aroun...

U.S. Early Retirement

is always Social Security (2004). Of course, that system is in crisis and that must be considered. There is no guarantee that Soc...

A Case Study of an Accounting System

to the have some control over these costs to manage his facility, but he is not being allowed this. If we look at the way head off...

Profit and Measuring Business Profitability

other ratios that can be used. These allow for comparison so that like companies can be measured against each other. Measures th...

Management and Financial Accounting

Investors can make informed decisions only when the information they have is full and accurate; the implications of sloppy or frau...

Accounting Essays and Theories

what the literature has to say about accountants and whether or not theyre trained to determine if something might lead to a scand...

The Phenomenon of Urban Heat Islands in Brazil

much more land is converted into houses, buildings, parking lots and roads - the very things that transform an otherwise natural v...

Life Effects of Insulin

would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...

Swimming Pool Business Results Enhancement

service companies to provide all labor for care. EPC adds chemicals, but the case does not state whether it adds chemicals provid...

Consequences of the Sarbanes Oxley Act

long-term ramifications of the Act will be (as its still so new), some of the literature on Sarbanes-Oxley has made some predictio...

eCommerce Issues

(Fixmer, 2002). Network security. By 2002, there had been few lawsuits in this area, but even then it was recognized as on...

Ethics and Financial Reporting

organizations that oversee accounting and its reporting are the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Accounting...

GEICO Acquisition and Warren Buffett Case Study

there must be a separation of the roles of the CEO and board. In other words, agency theory says that management will not operate ...

Accounting and Financials As They Involve Islamic Banking

For the most part, Islamic practices when it comes to money dont adapt themselves very well to more Anglo methods of accounting or...

Benefits of Microsoft Excel

that number-crunchers have come to rely on" (p.29). The one main advantage of Excel, according to many experts (not to men...

Bridgewater Castings and Strategic Decision Making

profit and stove profit in 1985 Considering only manufacturing, selling and shipping costs, the apparent portion of unit co...

Merchandising Businesses and the Importance of Computerized Accounting Systems

a concept of the past, information technology (IT) systems formerly were seen as repositories only of historical data used primari...

Improper Accounting Practices

derivative, why its typically used and how its typically used. Following that, we can go in depth into both Enron and Worldcom, an...

Global Accounting Standards and the Implications of Adopting Them for Australia

There are many examples of how this may occur. The elimination of the ability of companies to include the majority internally crea...

Manufacturing Variance Accounting

supplier raised prices. Another is that the supplier simply overcharged by mistake, but Miracles internal actions could contribut...

Paperwork Involved in Business Startup

corporation is the regular one must file a variety of tax forms including Form 1120 or 1120-A: Corporation Income Tax Return, empl...