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The Accounting Profession

The writer examines the accounting profession and its potential. The writer provides an overview of the field and several specialt...

Theory of Constraints and Throughput Accounting

In seven pages this essay defines the theory of constraints and throughput accounting, compares and contrasts throughput accountin...

What is Financial Accounting?

the majority of people using these accounts are not directly involved with the day to day running of the company and as such can u...

Accounting Questions

not yet been made, the customer has the computers on a trial basis and they have paid a deposit of $20,000 which they will forfeit...

Impact of the New Goodwill Accounting Standards and FASB 74

organizations and their accountants still have a great deal of freedom in how they report results. Organizations have the f...

Projected Accounts Case Study

open per year (c) (axb) Average sales per day (from table 1) (d) Estimated total for the year (cxd) 2005/6 6 50 300 500 150000...

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...

Questions on International Accounting Answered

2002). The adjustments were ?14 million for 2001 and in 2000 there was an adjustment of ?21.5 million including an adjustment of ?...

The History of Accounting and its Career Benefits

would not have taken place. This essay will examine the history of accounting, even while explaining why accounting is a g...

Various Accounting Questions and Answers

was the lower of the two, and the second company we will look at we are going theorise is a oil and energy company that also requi...

Goodwill Accounting

considered to be one of the most labor-intensive portions of accounting by many CPAs and accounting firms. "I must spend 50 perce...

Positive Accounting Theory and Environmental Accounting

to supply a monitoring device to reduce the information between the principals (i.e. the investors) and the agents (i.e. the manag...

Questions on Accounting

30% of this amount. This is 888,000 that needs to be added back in as the allowance. The calculation for the cash...

Activity Based Accounting and its Uses

costs and activity based costing may identify which type of furniture sales are the most attractive and any that may be creating l...

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...

Student Submitted Case Study on Planning Materiality

we take the 175,906 as a percentage of the total assets which are 29,611,000 we get the percentage of 0.6%. This appears to be a ...

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 ...

Profit and Measuring Business Profitability

other ratios that can be used. These allow for comparison so that like companies can be measured against each other. Measures th...

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...

Financial Performance of Saks Inc.

will be some very poor results. Sales have reduced from $6.6 billion to $6.1 billion, and with costs of $6 billion with the need f...

UK Accounting Standards on Short and Long Term Cable and Wireless

top 41.89 from 43.73%. The return on assets fell from 16.6% to 12.12%. Return on equity also showed a fall, from 44.15% to 18.79%....

Questions Pertaining to Accounting

to ?68,599 in 19X7. This is an increase of ?53,537, or 76% (calculated by taking 53,537 which is the increase between 19X7...

Questions About Accounting

4 12,000 0.636 7626 36448 Year 5 12,000 0.567 6809 43257 Year 6 12,000 0.507 6080 49337 Year 7 12,000 0.452 5428 54765 Year 8 12,0...

2000 Financial Analysis of Hilton Group PLC

there are changes within the company and the actual performance need to be measured against these changes. The UK casino division ...

Comparative Account Analysis of The Commonwealth Bank of Australia and The National Australia Bank Limited

In six pages the accounts of these banks in the four year period between 1996 and 2000 are assessed in terms of performance throug...

Developing a Marketing Plan for Viagra

to influencers Pfizer may appeal to men who would not otherwise come forward. It is undertaken in a tasteful manner, in line with ...

2004 and 2005 Tesco and Sainsbury's Financial Performance

are in millions and the currency is Stirling. 2. Financial Performance. 2.1 Gross Profit Margin The gross profit is the profit ...

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 ...

Analysis of McDonald's Performance

Wrapper To Show Fat, Calories, Wall Street Journal, Vol. 246 Issue 88, pB1-B3, 2p This article looks at the operations of McDonald...