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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cost Accounting System for an Online Business

online business unit. Management Information and Control Systems The broad framework of MIC systems includes a variety of s...

Developing a Cost Accounting System for a New Online Division

the ease of the purchase and the speed of delivery as well as aspects such as the returns policy and the way contact is managed. T...

Computer System Project

This 10 page paper looks at the way a project to install a computer system in a shop may be planned. The paper focuses ion the pla...

Scheduling

place concurrently at the same time) rather than consecutively (one at a time after each other). Possible paths Total number of ...

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...

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%....