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Cost Determination Methods

In nine pages this paper examines various methods of cost determination including activity based accounting, standard costing, var...

Music and Mathematics

In five pages this paper examines how mathematics appears in several subjects including music in a consideration of accounting, fr...

Gross Domestic Product Economic Indicator Importance

make business decisions and prepare for future trends. In looking at the GDP it is important to realize that a true historical ...

The Peloponnesian War as Described by Thucydides

At the beginning of this extended speech, the representative from Corcyra prefaces his narrative of events with an appeal that is ...

Accounting and White Collar Employment in 'Down and Out in White Collar America' by Nelson Schwartz

This has been especially true in accounting. Twenty years ago, the profession of accounting mainly focused on spreadsheets and the...

Accounting and Gross Domestic Product

balance sheets, cash flow statements and other accounting-specific functions. This even tends to be the case even when the account...

Elizabeth Ashbridge and a Letter From Her Husband

I know that my treatment of you was unforgivable and added to your other burdens of sorrow: although a man has the right to discip...

Cecelski's Along Freedom Road

those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultura...

United Kingdom's Fraud Cases and Accounting Regulatory Authorities

In ten pages this paper examines cases of Wickes BCCI, Maxwell, Guinness, and Barings Bank in a consideration of UK accounting reg...

A Case Study Featuring Activity Based Costing

to understand this we need to look at what we mean by activity based cost accounting and how it actually works so that the potenti...

Tutorial on Washington State's Certified Public Accountants

In five pages the question of why in the state of Washington a student of accounting should change to a Certified Public Accountan...

Issues Related to Nonprofit Organizations

In six pages this paper discusses nonprofit organizations in an examination of issues including environmental changing, volunteer ...

'Conservative' Accounting Approach of Microsoft

to accounting, much of which is exemplified in the use of the cookie jar. Microsofts Approach Microsoft has taken pride in ...

Accounting Practice and the Use of Mathematics

can do on silicon. But that is not math. That is accounting. Real math is not crunching numbers but contemplating them and the mys...

Cost Distribution and Production Costs

the determination of the overheads in advance of the period we are budgeting for. Once we have the actual rates needs then we will...

Cycles in Accounting

The second step is to post the transactions to the General Ledger (Mount San Jacinto College, 2003). The General Ledger is a compa...

Trade Issue and GM

Motors Corp., Facts, 2003). According to the Harbour Report, GM had a "4.5 percent gain in overall productivity" in 2002 (Wagone...

The Benefits and Challenges Associated with IFMIS Implementation in a Developing Country

may not only facilitate further donor aid, may also increase the potential level of trust that trading partners or investors may h...

Financial Analysis of Horizon Line

Figure 2 shows the revenue, operating profit and net profit margin. All figures here, and in this paper are quoted in millions of ...

Z-Wing Marketing Strategy

operators, or the market is dominated by only a few operators, even if they are operating under subsidiary companies giving a domi...

Use of the Balanced Scorecard

variance are all legal, although it can sometimes be questioned how ethical they are. There are also many influences which ...

Different Health Plan Types

12 pages and 12 sources used. This paper provides an overview of an emerging system in providing health benefits by employers. T...

Unilever

firm. The strategy that is seen is reflective of the realization that the firm had become too diversified and that as well as econ...

Harrah

Table of Contents 1. COMPANY OVERVIEW 3 2. CURRENT AND PROJECTED ACTIVITIES 5 2.1 Current Activities 6 2.2 Future Activities 8 2.2...

Analysis of New York City's FY2007 Budget

decline in 2008 from 2007 levels, as example - which the departments management can review for performance after the fact. Horngr...

The Importance of the Assurance Role of the Auditor

the annual accounts is to present the financial performance of the company for the last year, with the main stakeholder group bein...

Financial Questions; The Four Financial Statement, The Use of Ratios and Problems with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

this is also known as the statement of retrained earnings, or in some cases the statement of owners equity. This shows changes in ...

ACCOUNTING INFORMATION AND STAKEHOLDERS

as a comparison to their own. As such, it goes without saying that different stakeholders have different uses for the information ...

Security, Accounting, and Information Systems

In five pages this tutorial answers questions regarding IS uses in security and auditing areas. Two sources are listed in the bib...

Management Accounting Calculations

of weeks worked per year and the number of barbers employed all of which need to be multiplied together, this gives us an annual w...