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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cost Accounting

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Public Finance

seem as appropriate today as when he wrote them. 2. Governmental Accounting and Non-Governmental Accounting Governmental and non...

SAFC 7; Using Cash Flow Information and Present Value in Accounting Measurements

This 3 page paper looks at the FASB statement of financial accounting concept (SAFC) 7 which deals with the measurement of future ...

Defining Managerial Accounting and a Cost Accounting Case Study

The paper is presented in two sections. The first section defines managerial accounting. The second section examines figures supp...

Last Supper Accounts

Jesus was both human and Divine as is reflected in many parts of the New Testament. This paper discusses the account of the Last S...

Limiting Web Site Porn

Internet pornography accounts for $2.5 billion of the $57 billion pornography market. The Web has made porn easily accessible by i...

Accounting Board Oversight

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 mandates that company management to assess and report the effectiveness of their internal control e...

Implementing Activity Based Costing

and also make it possible to simulate changes in the environment and the machinery used so that the alternatives can be measured f...

Financial Projections for Best Pastries

for the ongoing operations, and there will be the need for insurance these are all known as operating costs (Elliott and Elliott, ...

The Spanish Decimation of the Aztec

Tezcatlipoca. The gold which is given of course only whets the Spanish appetite for even greater riches. Never-the-less the Span...

The Impact of External Influences on the Performance of Shell

impact on the financial performance of the company. However, it is also possible to see the way in which the increasing oil prices...

ACCOUNTING CYCLE OF MCDONALD'S CORP.

This 3-page paper goes through the steps of an accounting cycle using McDonald's purchase of potatoes. Bibliography lists 1 source...

Minor Client Confidentiality - The Ethical Dimensions

circle of students who are widely known at the school to engage in drug use and other delinquent activities. During counseling s...

Twitter Social Media or More?

some meant to be detrimental to the public perception of these individuals, and others created by campaign managers or staff. Unl...

Da Vinci Furniture Marketing Case Study

different from its competitors, with unique characteristics (Morgan, 2009). This may be the result of the ways the product charact...