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Krispy Kreme and Ethical Accounting Practices

and give an appearance of a sounder and more asset backed company. The first is with the repurchase of some franchises, for a pric...

Employee Stock Option Schemes in Accounting

of other standards I the past (Anonymous, 2005). In order to assess the impact of this and why the new standard is seen in such a ...

Gospel Accounts of Jesus's Anointing

a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me" (Matt. 26:10-11). Jesus goes on ...

For and Against IFRS

approach, good for business and investors, and has even been criticised in terms if the way the International Accounting Standards...

Fraudulent Accounting Procedures at WorldCom and Enron

as CEO and Chairman on February 4, 2002; Jeffrey K. Skilling, former CEO and Director; Andrew S. Fastow, former chief financial of...

Lance Armstrong and the notion 'Its Not About the Bike'

on Armstrongs body but the real heroics are attributable to the man and to the body itself! Armstrong was diagnosed with te...

Australian Accounting Standard AASB 138

so that it matching with the revenue it produces. Often this has been claimed as clashing with the concept of produce to acct for ...

Book Review of Near Failure in Kosovo by Wesley Clark

Serbian "ethnic cleansing" (a euphemistic term for genocide) which was then going on in Kosovo. It was Clarks belief that it was i...

U.S. Early Retirement

is always Social Security (2004). Of course, that system is in crisis and that must be considered. There is no guarantee that Soc...

Cuban Missile Crisis and Conflict Between Canada and the United States

course, had definitely heard of us. Unfortunately, a significant portion of their actions during this crisis was structured aroun...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Price Earnings Ratio and Yields

of these risks in order to ascertain the required rate of interest may be seen as a good reason for the intervention of the bank, ...

Accounting Profession and the Effects of Information Systems

however, technological accounting functions were mainly stand-alones - they werent a whole lot different from the old by hand ledg...

Should Australian General Insurance Company Regulations be Changed?

In this the purpose of the accounts and rights to information were seen as wider, with the report stating that; "The publics right...

Control, NPV and Accounting Rate of Return

Year 3 1,600,000 1.65 2,646,000 1.10 1760000 4,406,000 Year 4 1,600,000 1.74 2,778,300 1.10 1760000 4,538,300 With this informati...

Lussier and Achua's Leadership Theories

it can be said. He could tell in a fifteen minute interview whether the potential hire was going to fit well with the team that wa...