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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...

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...

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...

Ellen Lewin's Lesbian Mothers Accounts of Gender in American Culture

And, by presenting the reader with both sides, so to speak, a reader cannot immediately start stereotyping the results as they app...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Visions Instruments Company Accounting Case Study

Fixed costs Rent 15,000 15,450 15,914 Power 1,000 1,030 1,061 Dies 10,000 10,300 10,609 Maintenance 3,000 3,090 3,183 Supplies ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Accounting, Finances, and Ethics

thing to do, either. When the truth came out, the stock slid quickly, bankrupting employees and investors almost overnight. ...

Ratio Analysis of Microsoft

firm may be assessed. One of the first ratios is that of the gross profit margin. The gross margin is expressed as a percentage....

Buying a Laptop for a New Business

will support the business as it grows. If sufficient is known about accounting information software the features needed ma...

Accounts of Marxism's 'Death' Are Highly Exaggerated

In eight pages Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto and its continued relevance are discussed. Five sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Decisions on Capital Budgeting

x = 15.53% 1(b). Retained Earnings Break Point Equity = 60% = 0.6...

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...

Accounting and Gross Domestic Product

balance sheets, cash flow statements and other accounting-specific functions. This even tends to be the case even when the account...

Elizabeth Ashbridge and a Letter From Her Husband

I know that my treatment of you was unforgivable and added to your other burdens of sorrow: although a man has the right to discip...

Cecelski's Along Freedom Road

those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultura...