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Merger of Salomon and Smith Barney from an Accounting Perspective

In five pages this paper discusses before and after merger figures for Travelers, Smith Barney, and Salomon in an accounting consi...

Management of Exchange Rates

In nine pages this research paper considers the management of exchange rates and includes such relevant issues as rate options, fo...

Accounting as a Career Path

The writer discusses the accounting field, and considers such things as eduction and training necessary to become an accountant, t...

Misrepresentation and Ethical Accounting

This paper examines ethical considerations in the accounting field. The author also discusses the AICPA Code of Professional Condu...

Managerial Accounting and Human Behavior

In seventeen pages this paper discuss management accounting and the impact of human behavior. Eleven sources are cited in the bib...

Accounting Issues

activities even get to court and of those approximately twenty percent get dismissed (Kadlec, 1998). It is the third observation,...

Accounting Accrual Method

In twelve pages the advantages of using an accrual accounting method opposed to a cash method are discusses along with the relevan...

Computer Technology and the Accounting Profession

In this paper containing six pages different areas within the field of accounting are considered along with the contention that qu...

The Importance of Forensic Accounting

This paper addresses the vital occupation of forensic accounting. The author describes duties, responsibilities, and why forensic...

New Regulations and the FASB

In nine pages this paper examines the FASB and how changes in business practices has meant changes and reforms to accounting proce...

Controversy Regarding SFAS 95

In five pages this accounting paper discusses the FASB's designation of cash flow reporting requirements. Five sources are cited ...

Accounting Principles

In five pages this procedures and principles associated with accounting are examined. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography...

Circular 133A on Nonprofit Organizations and Accounting

In eleven pages the nonprofit compliance rules as delineated in 133A are discussed along with mistakes commonly made while attempt...

Issues in Accounting and Mandatory Redeemable Preferred Stocks

In eleven pages this paper considers whether or not entity should be considered as equity or debt in an examination of the issues ...

H. Thomas Johnson's Relevance Regained

In five pages this text review considers business practice and education in three sections that include history and accounting man...

Accountant Ethics and Compromise

In five pages this paper examines one author's assertion of how ethics can be compromised in the accounting profession through bil...

Business Importance of Inventory Accounting

Well also offer an explanation of simplified LIFO, which is fast outpacing FIFO as the inventory accounting method of choice. What...

Cost Accounting and its Historic Uses

use historic cost methods, he or she would value business (b) based on the price business (a) paid for the acquisition, rather tha...

World Marketplace and Accounting Procedural Standardization

for publicly held companies under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Rosengren and Jordan 3). The entire mission and purpose of...

Accounting Comparison of the United States Safeway Company and the United Kingdom Sainsbury Company

and Elliott, 1998). The aims of the ASC were numerous, firstly they defined the accounting concepts under SSAP2 Elliot and Elliott...

Australian Corporations Act of 2001 and Public Company Directors

that this move was constitutional (Lexis, 2004). The idea may have been to increase protection for shareholders and develop unifor...

Benefits of Process Based Accounting

process based accounting system at its plant in Plymouth, Minnesota (Pare, 1993). In order to implement this system, during the in...

Historical Cost Concept

valuation that are excessive where prices may have dropped. This is why revaluation is becoming more appropriate when seeking to g...

Pericles' Funeral Oration as Reported by Thucydides

way of life is unique when compared to that of our neighbors. Only in Athens can a citizen, no matter what class or social distinc...

'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 ...

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...

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...

Business Accounting, Cost, and Benefit

costing, marginal or variable costing, standard costing and activity based costing (ABC). These are all models that can be used to...