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Essays 1861 - 1890

A Fictional Account of a Faith-Based Journey

as many people as possible. In other words, they took literally the Biblical injunction to carry the Good News throughout all the ...

Cost Accounting and JIT Inventory Control Systems

methods when accounting for just-in-time systems. Conventional costing techniques involve dividing costs into separate categories ...

Global Capitalism And Standard Requirement Issues

problems that -- if not somehow corrected -- will only serve to undermine the very objectives of global capitalism. "Too many lab...

ABC's Development of Project Software

In this paper of seven pages two fictional companies the family owned Midnight Auto Supply company and ABC Software Solutions are ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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 ...

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...

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...

Mary Rowlandson's Narrative

This essay pertains to Mary Rowlandson's seventeenth century account of her capture by Indians. The writer discusses its contempor...

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...

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...

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...

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...

John Hope Franklin's "The Train from Hate"

This essay is on "The Train from Hate" by John Hope Franklin, which is an autobiographical account of an childhood incident that a...

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...

Questions on Government Accounting

to $295 million. Second Question: 1. Under the first alternative, the town would need to set aside $50,000 each month for ...

Accounting Board Oversight

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

Post Arthur Anderson and Enron Accounting Implications

the financial statements. This sent investors scrambling. Nancy Temple was viewed as the culprit (by both the courts and observers...

US Government Accrual Accounting

at the various forms. Taxes may be levied when there is an exchange transaction. However, property taxes are payable every year ba...

Auditing, Accounting, and the Effects of Technology

Technology, plus the growth of international business, have had a huge impact on this industry, and in this paper, well examine ho...

Activity Based Costing and Artefact Method

the common use of the phrase overhead recovery as synonymous with the term overhead absorption (Chadwick, 1996). The first stage...

Aspects of Environmental Accounting

their assumptions. Much information regarding operations is not public, and much may not even reach the board. The ability for int...

Tax Accounting Systems and How They Have Evolved

schedules are required. For the professional tax preparer, much of the job has gotten easier with the advent of advanced accountin...

Corporate Policy and Ethical Behavior

of freedom in terms of which figures he reports and this is attributable to Previews lax control environment. Of course, Harris do...

Global Accounting Standards and the Implications of Adopting Them for Australia

There are many examples of how this may occur. The elimination of the ability of companies to include the majority internally crea...