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SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEPARTMENTS

What is the best software and/or information system for various units and departments in a company? The answer to this is NOT...

The Performance of BMW in 2009

manufacture cars, motorcycles and engines. The company was founded in 1916, is best known for its high end vehicles; strong in ter...

Comparison of Wal-Mart and Tesco Strategies and Performance

and the influences need to be taken from the broader context as well consider issues such as the increased levels of importance in...

Diversity in Cost Accounting Practices

can be very effective at allocating indirect costs (de Modesti and Eriksen, 2008). This is an approach that may be seen as one aim...

A Literature Review on Gender and the Accountancy Field

This paper begins by noting that there is an obvious gender gap at the highest levels of the big four accounting firms. A literat...

Devising Medical Intervention to Insure Benefit and to Avoid Harm

patients problem. Physician induced demand (PID), for example, occurs because of the ability of physicians to take advantage of t...

Creating a Income Statement

formula looks like this =SUM(B2*45%). This is then repeated for each of the costs for the different departments, and the advertisi...

Assessment of the Breakeven Point for AT&T in 2009

need to differentiate between the fixed costs and the variable costs. The traditional approach variable costs are these are the di...

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...

Deceptive Reporting and Methodologies for Financial Accounting

is precisely what Enron did (Thomas, 2002). Because of this, Enron, before everything collapsed, boosted valuation estimates, with...

Article Analysis: Financial and Accounting Topics from the Wall Street Journal

This 12-page paper analyzes financial and accounting articles from the Wall Street Journal. There are 5 sources listed in the bibl...

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...

Marginal Costing and Total Costing Uses

ability to include overhead and indirect costs, and the ability to make allowances for past and future outlays. In many ways we ma...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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 ...

Financially Assessing the Merger Between AOL and Time Warner

Time Inc., in filmed entertainment there is Warner Bros and New Line Cinema, for Music there is the Warner Music Group, and for Ca...

Canada and China Accounting Practices

they want reassurance that what they are being told is true. In examining the literature, we note that there is little tha...

Accounting for Impairment of Assets

to implement IASC in the union by 2005 nearly 80% backed the move ((Journal of Accountancy, 2001). In addition more than two thir...

Fictitious Trebor Company's Accounting Approaches

invested equity is larger than the required equity rate of return (Johnson, 2002-2003). The DCF method is used when prospective di...

Gross Domestic Product Economic Indicator Importance

make business decisions and prepare for future trends. In looking at the GDP it is important to realize that a true historical ...

The Peloponnesian War as Described by Thucydides

At the beginning of this extended speech, the representative from Corcyra prefaces his narrative of events with an appeal that is ...

Accounting and White Collar Employment in 'Down and Out in White Collar America' by Nelson Schwartz

This has been especially true in accounting. Twenty years ago, the profession of accounting mainly focused on spreadsheets and the...