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Budget Variance

possible that there has been wage inflation, or wage rises that have been implemented which were not allowed for in the budget. Th...

ENRON, FRAUD AND CONSEQUENCES

Mention the word "Enron" and what is likely to come to mind is "accounting scandal." Though the period between 2000-2002 brought i...

Ratio Analysis of Microsoft

firm may be assessed. One of the first ratios is that of the gross profit margin. The gross margin is expressed as a percentage....

Buying a Laptop for a New Business

will support the business as it grows. If sufficient is known about accounting information software the features needed ma...

Diversity in Cost Accounting Practices

can be very effective at allocating indirect costs (de Modesti and Eriksen, 2008). This is an approach that may be seen as one aim...

Income and Expenses at Patton Fuller

with data from other sources, such as market data. Further down the balance sheet there is a space for investment income, this i...

Cost Profit Volume Costing in the Modern Commercial Environment

are costs which are no incurred unless the units is made. The CPV will be based on assessing the contribution level of a product p...

The Twelve Caesars/Suetonius

in presenting the various biographies that make up this text, citing the private documents of the emperors, as well as public sour...

PROFIT MAXIMIZATION AND ACCOUNTING GIMMICKS

In late 2001, when the former "new economy" giant Enron was imploding, it was found that its internal financial staff relied on sp...

Comparing the Christian Account of Our Creation to the Yoruba Creation Myth

warm and light the new creation (Awolalu, 1996). Obatala then made human figures from dirt, human figures that were varied and co...

Tourism in Phuket: The Global Impact

to the area of Phuket in southern Thailand. Unfortunately, many contemporary factors seem to be impacting that level of tourism to...

Corporate Social Responsibility Subjects

warming, it is generally accepted that greenhouse gas emissions are a significant contributory factor, and many firms are seeking ...

Is the Traditional Approach to Cost Accounting Outdated in a Modern Environment?

be take place, however this an area which they significant weakness many companies, as noted that in 1987 by Johnson and Kaplan, a...

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...

Accounting, Environment, and Society

accounts has been laid down by the use of statutory instruments such as the Companies Acts as well as regulations laid down by the...

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 ...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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, ...

Projections of Cost and Breaking Even Accounting Case Study

indicated not only did the parents love them, that the toy shop owners also loved them, thinking they would be a hit. Kirk worke...

Analysis of Corporate Annual Account Finances

This figure is ?52.5, giving an operating profit margin of 3.45% This is taken to two significant figures. If we look at the figur...

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...

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...