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'Arbitrary' Capital Punishment?

in todays society, the very foundation upon which it was originally created - to dissuade deviant social behavior - has continued ...

Overview of Fair Value Accounting Uses

fair value also goes against concepts such as the historic accounting concept and the matching. This is also arguably a wa...

UK Standard Setting and Accounting Standards

by the auditors that said it was a fair and reasonable basis. (Elliott and Elliott, 2005). When the take-over went ahead a...

Forensics and a Personal Code of Ethics

discusses a personal code of ethics that a student might adopt in regards to career in forensic science. Personal code of ...

Non-Financial Performance Measures

poor labor relations and undertaking little or no development for the future. The annual accounts may be used to provide additiona...

An Article Analysis, Ethics and School Nurses

This essay provides a summary and analysis of the research conducted by Solum and Schaffer (2003), which involved a study sample o...

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...

Esquel Case Study

it is unsurprising that the currency has the potential to grow stronger. However, the Chinese Yuan is not a floating currency, so...

Cost Accounting and Activity-Based Costing

The very nature of business dictates that some systemic aspects of the business depend on other aspects in a hierarchical fashion....

Apple; Loosing and Regaining Competitive Advantages

vision. The vision was simple and idealistic, and it may be argued was copied later by Bill Gates and Microsoft. Steve Jobs, who f...

Book Review of Management Accounting

But what, exactly, is management accounting information? The authors point out that, according to the Institute of Management Acco...

Ethics and Management Accounting

Arcticview -- an Overview This particular case study was presented by management accountant Grant Russell in a 1996 editio...

eCommerce Issues

(Fixmer, 2002). Network security. By 2002, there had been few lawsuits in this area, but even then it was recognized as on...

Accounting and Tax Based Questions and Issues

guesswork typically has to take place (that, and knowledge of both the company and the market). Either way, the answer to ...

Merck and Pfizer Financial Ratios

Stock price 31st Dec 2004 $26.89 $32.14 Current stock price $22.31 $28.90 Price/book value 2.5 3.6 Price/cash flow 10.3 8.2 Sales ...

Accounting Questions

only annual accounts are used. Question 2 It is often said that accounting is a means to an end rather than an end in itself. If...

Australia's Lend Lease Corporation

million 38 xix. Operating profit before tax (Answer in dollars; making sure to provide the unit of measurement (millions; 000s) A...

Ethical Egoism vs. Divine Command

out that God stopped Abraham from committing this act, but the point is that Abraham was quite prepared to do it and this was the ...

Irregularities in Accounting at WorldCom and Enron

savvy ways of getting things done. That is, until the fall of 2001. The nation, already shocked and stunned by the tragedy...

Mead Case Study Answers

MUS is not only the number of line items in a given population, but also an approximate book value of the largest item - this, as ...

Questions Concerning Government Accounting

following the financial year end. 5. If we look at property taxes these are levied on a yearly basis and as such may be seen as ea...

Using Activity Based Accounting as a Bally Total Fitness Control Measure

has been great attention to increasing efficiency over the past decade and longer, and adjusting the product and distribution mix ...

Activity Based Cost Accounting

In a paper consisting of ten pages activity base costing is examined with the use of Relevance Lost by H. Thomas Johnson and Rober...

Accounting Issues

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

Misrepresentation and Ethical Accounting

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

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 ...

Activity Based Costing Accounting Technique

In five pages this technique as it relates to the merchandising industry is discussed. Although there are some drawbacks associat...

GE's Two Decade Transformation - Harvard Case

this problem. Internal Factors: Strengths: Excellent leadership and management: Welch eliminated layers of bureaucratic managemen...

Caterpillar Case Study

did not appreciate the value of a positive employment relationship. However, in all cases there has been strong leadership even if...

Zauner Ornaments Costing Case Study

in terms of over heads that are not reflected in whatever proportional system is used. No approach will ever be 100% accur...