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Could the UK Realize a Similar Enron Disaster?

problems were already apparent. In the annual accounts, debts had been understated and profits had been overstated to the amount o...

Americans of the Nineteenth Century and Western Conquest

Her life journey coupled her with a man who became her husband and took her with him on his expedition to Chihuahua, Mexico. What...

Corporate Governance Issue Examined

effect to such things, and these situations are no different. When people lose jobs, families suffer, economies suffer, communiti...

A Production Decision Making Case Study

company. The first option is to adjust the product mix so that the products made maximise the potential profit. The second option ...

Enron's Failure and its Reasons

accounting system it may be argued that a collapse in the style of Enron is much more unlikely due to very different accounting en...

Management Accounting and the Source of Error Represented by Fixed Costs

to date figures on a daily or weekly basis form which they can monitor a companies performance, control costs and the bank account...

Corporate Accounts and Ratios and the Effects of Share Option Schemes

of the accounting that produce the ratios the employees who do not have a direct impact will be considered first, and the director...

Robert F. Kennedy's 13 Days Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

saw a moment in time when the world may well have seen utter chaos with the dropping of nuclear weapons. Chapter One begins thi...

Management Accounting and Errors Caused by Fixed Costs

may be seen in the way costs are calculated, this may be by absorption costing, marginal costing or activity based costing. In all...

Comparing the Movie 'Elizabeth' with 'New Worlds, Lost Worlds The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603' by Brigden

preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...

Character of Jo in Charles Dickens' Bleak House

after several of the detectives he knew from the local department. Dickens routinely, then, chooses those who are the most...

Pros and Cons of International Accounting Standards

* Better integrate pricing, financial reporting, earnings analysis, forecasting, and risk management (Duran et al., 2003). From...

Questions Pertaining to Accounting

to ?68,599 in 19X7. This is an increase of ?53,537, or 76% (calculated by taking 53,537 which is the increase between 19X7...

Career Opportunities in Accounting and Auditing

and tax senior (AICPA (b), 2002). Corporate accounting, in the meantime, includes management accounting, financial accounting and ...

Corporate Spying and Accounting Issues

This paper will discuss what corporate spying is, how it is conducted, and how accounting departments can be targets of corporate ...

Forecasting Sales Using Regression Analysis

The company must identify factors that have the ability to have a significant impact on monthly sales of Treat. Some of those...

Offshore Pension Plan Investment

The Dow nearly crossed into 3,000 territory long enough to close there on several occasions prior to the Gulf War in 1991 and fina...

How Contemporaries Depicted Hernan Cortes and Christopher Columbus

The first impression that we get is that Cortes is a determined and logical man. He attempts this journey, and has to overcome...

Special Purpose Entities and Accounting at Enron

This approach was legal and acceptable under FASB rules at the time. The Enron-specific problem arose when Enron did not consolid...

Appropariate Guidance and Standards for the Consolidation of Special Purpose Entities and FASB

does believe that: "most SPEs serve valid business purposes, such as isolating assets or activities to protect the interests of c...

Freire's 'Banking Concept of Education' Analyzed

a bank customer "fills" his or her bank "container" or account with money. Much like bank accounts, students are able to receive, ...

Cost Structure and the Airline Industry

In this way the more operating leverage an airline has, the greater its business risk will be. Despite the fact that many analyst...

Early American History and Free African Americans

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

UK Accounting Standards on Short and Long Term Cable and Wireless

top 41.89 from 43.73%. The return on assets fell from 16.6% to 12.12%. Return on equity also showed a fall, from 44.15% to 18.79%....

Corporate Systems of Budgetary Control

to a corporation, it would first be helpful to define what, precisely is involved in budgetary control systems. First of all, a bu...

Accounting Techniques Used inWorldCom's Acquisitions and Mergers

international services as part of WorldCom Inc which operates over countless seamless networks. In regards to revenues and traffic...

Harmonization and IAS

of international standards. It is only if there are international standards that international stakeholders may be able to see acc...

Accounting Perspectives and Issues

first developed to be a heart drug, the well known use today, to help with sexual problems was merely a side effect, and had a str...

Accounting Dichotomies

date by the time they are read. Therefore, there is an importance that these need to be understood and be set by standards. Howe...

Comparing Nike to Manchester United

what the actual value of the company is and deduct the physical asset. This can then be considered in terms of the actual amount, ...