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ACCOUNTING STANDARDS: PRINCIPLES VERSUS RULES

exactly, rules and principals are as they pertain to accounting. Its comforting to reach for rules in times of crisis, in order to...

Accounting Concepts and Reading Accounts

by the period over which it is creating revenue. For some items the historic cost is not a suitable measure. For example, building...

Cost of Equity and Cost of Debt at Disney Corp.

make an investment in a firm, either directly or in purchasing the shares in order to make a profit. The same risk and reward rela...

Accounting: Principles-Based Or Rules-Based?

and diligence and independence at the auditing level" (Anonymous, 2003). From a broader perspective, one of the main reason...

Are Accounting Reforms And Legislation Are The Only Means By Which The Accounting Profession Will be Able To Regain Public Trust And Re-Establish Its’ Credibility?

fraud, and it was with this we might argue there was the first loss of confidence in the auditors. This case limited the liability...

Financial Projections

to itself. However, there are costs when using funding from reserves, there are opportunity costs. If the money is taken out of th...

Ethics in Accounting Practice: Rules Based Accounting versus the Conceptual Framework

is trying to create accounting standards that are defined in terms of objectives but do not rely on "specific rules" (" A Conversa...

Creating a Consulting Firm

of health care is in and remains in flux as we seek systems that not only work in the present but also are sustainable over time. ...

A Challenging Learning Experience

no positive reinforcement for me and an aversion to the machine developed. Positive reinforcement refers to when an event or stim...

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US GAAP; The Impact on Accounts

IFRS will face a number of barriers, even these Securities and Exchange Commission (FTC) has backed the convergence between the US...

Responsibility Accounting; The Concept, Its’ Advantages and Disadvantages

can be used as ways to measure the way that the company is performing. The traditional responsibility centres include revenue cent...

Triple Bottom Line Accounting And Organisational Profit Accounting

profit is the total revenue after all costs have been deducted. Whilst the figure is interesting the understanding of a companys p...

Triple Bottom Line and Systems Theory; Similarities and Differences in the Accounting Approaches

This 3 page paper compares and contrasts to approaches to accounting; triple bottom line and the use of systems theory. The approa...

Accounting Problems at Dell

satisfy warranty claims but there is the potential to make an accurate estimate with the past statistics and the knowledge of the ...

The Value of the NKT Accounts to Help with Decision Making

although annual reports can be very useful documents not only ion reporting results and potential strategies which may be relevant...

Cost Accounting

Every plant manager and retailer understands that overhead, labor and the cost of materials combine to create the final cost of pr...

Critique of James G. Hollandsworth Jr.’s The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

Frantek Case Study

Frantek. The way that revenue is recognized in a relativity simply concept and is found in FASB Statement of Financial Accountin...

Accounting Questions

of its economic life. The historical cost convention can result in some difficulties, as some assets will be written off, but may ...

The Lawrence Massachusetts Auto Insurance Fraud Task Force

existence less than five years but it has already been responsible for the 325 insurance fraud charges (Volger, 2008). As is the ...

The WorldCom Meltdown

thousands of businesses around the world" (Moberg and Romar, 2002). It also carried "more international voice traffic than any oth...

Mortgage Fraud

33). In this case, the lender involved with Mary Overton is Ameriquest (Der Hovanesian and Grow, 2007). According to the FBI, "in...

Ukraine - Orange Revolution And After

they would use it with the world watching as the events were broadcast on television and reading about it in other media (Karatnyc...

Friedman and Corporate Social Responsibility

standards is not specified and therefore, one must assume that the moral demands which are made by society or more important than ...

Employee Fraud Worker's Compensation

This paper discuses different issues. What kind of fraud is being committed at a hotel. What kinds of fraudulent activities to sus...

Why Management Can Manipulate Records

Our business world continues to be challenged with fraudulent activities and other wrongdoings. This essay discusses some of the i...

White Collar Scandal

White collar fraud continues to be committed. Most people are well-aware of some of the huge corporate scandals, like Enron, the t...

Does the Fifth Amendment Protect Documents

There are three issues discussed in this essay. The first explains a scenario of a fraud examiner interviewing a person and all th...

Two Fraud Cases

Fraud continues to be rampant in the corporate world. Prudential Securities were charged with late trading. A manager for Johnson ...

Ernst & Young Sued Again

This essay discusses separate but related issues insofar as fraud is involved. The writer uses the OIG report on SEC's oversight o...