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Proposed School Board Plan for Children Using Computers

In eight pages this paper discusses a school board proposal for the use of computers for all children in a school district regardl...

American Leadership as Personified by Steve Jobs and Virginia Henderson

CP/M, which was shortly to be succeeded by MS/DOS (Alsop 188). The Macintosh operating system offered an icon-driven system that a...

Libraries and Censorship Filters

content specifically set out in the CIPA statue;... 2. Certain broad categories of content--among them journalistic, medical, educ...

Did Fair Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?

In 2007/8 there was the start of a global recession, which has also been referred to as the credit crunch. The writer looks at the...

SHERMAN COMPUTER REPAIR: A NEW ORGANIZATIONAL DIRECTION

a self-analysis to understand what it will need to do to move from computer services into computer building. New technologies will...

Buying a Laptop

for this we need to consider the different uses. * The general use will be as a family laptop, rather than in a business environme...

COMPUTERS, INPUT AND OUTPUT DEVICES

other end of the spectrum is the graphics tablet, an input device, complete with stylus, that allows the mover to move the cursor,...

Allocating Common Costs

that the costs may be allocated, they may be slit equally between the three departments, or it is more likely that there will be s...

Definition of Accounting Categories

cash in bank account. Long-term assets tend to be relatively easy to identify, and may also be referred to as fixed assets, and in...

Issues Concerning Internal Controls

is in place the key element is that of accountability (Watts. 2007). Authority is also likely to be linked a system of authoriza...

Accounting Tools That Help Non-Accountants Make Capital Investments Decisions

sales will recoup the investment, the payback period, These have value is looking at he amount of sales that need to be made and t...

Tender Mercies/CPS Investigations

job frequently encompasses. Richards explains that this is a "Catch-22" situation, as he can "only force a physical exam by court...

Stock Option Valuation: The Ethical Dimensions

window (regardless of the actual movements of the stock). In doing so, organizations not only offset their compensation obligation...

Comparing WalMart and Carrefour

notable that the results may not be directly comparable due to the different accounting regulations in which the annual reports ar...

Improving Accounts Receivable

empowerment of the PFS staff, giving them responsibility over specific accounts and up to date tools to allow them to track the p...

Fair Value Accounting in Australia after the Financial Crisis

this it may be expected that Australia may be ahead on the way that regulation are implemented and the goals that are being espous...

Performance Accounting

in future planning and controlling costs, and it may be useful in evaluating performance. It certainly directly relates to the or...

FINANCIAL REPORTING AND OVERSIGHT

compliance procedure, lack of standardized accounting procedures for Heinz divisions, no effective review and monitoring process, ...

SYSTEM THINKING AND THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS

of supply and inventory moves into a particular project, then goes through and ends up with the finished project. In a standard ma...

SPE Accounting and Interpretation

that other entity and realizes the accounting principle shift as discussed by Schmutte and Duncan (2005). The scope of variable i...

Different Accounting Standards and Anglo American Ltd

Companies that operate in different accounting jurisdictions may have to comply with different accounting standards. This paper is...

Financial and Management Accounting and the Use of CVP

is also useful to understand that management accounting also allows a greater amount of planning giving costs for different scenar...

ACCOUNTING PRESENTATIONS AND DIFFERENCES

for judgment calls, if and when necessary. A difference in these rules can have an impact on things such as fair-market value, mar...

Changes in Accounting Practice at Delta

on the accounts. The way that depreciation works is based in spreading the cost of a piece of equipment over the useful life, so t...

Measures to Reduce the Risk of Terrorism in the Finance and Accounting Sector

inevitably requires money laundering to take place. To consider the way that measures that are found within the accounting and fi...

Fair Value Accounting in the Economic Crisis

standards, but is further defined in individual standards. .The concept of fair value became an issue that would have pote...

The Relationship between Positive Accounting Theory and World Dimensions of Habermas

warming. This has been seen by many as a claim rather than a fact, arguing that there is insufficient proof, it was this reasoning...

PRINCIPLES VS. RULES-BASED ACCOUNTING: AN ETHICAL STUDY

serious ethical situations could occur. In 2008, the SEC began allowing foreign corporations to file financial information...

Tyco Case Study

ship empty boxes to Maine while the actual art work was delivered to his home in the city, he could claim his home as a business e...

IAS 37

an agreed payment date (IAS Plus, 2008). Where there is a provision made this is not presenting a certainty, just a probable even...