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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 ...

International Accounting Standards Implementation Benefits and Costs

in some countries. Therefore, even in a single country there are choices. When it is considered the level of flexibility internati...

Global Accounting and International Standards

Therefore the general legal system seemed to let down the financial regulatory systems when fraud or malpractice was detected. We ...

UK's Regulation of the TV Industry Present and Future

In five pages the regulation of the UK television industry currently and the future changes that will result from the consolidatio...

United Group Limited, Woodside Petroleum Limited and Babcock & Brown Limited

to United Group Ltd. As part of the growth there has been a strategy of acquisition, companies acquired which have added r...

Fine Arts/Washington State Standards

The book also explores drawing and painting techniques, as well as offering numerous examples of fine art. Fifteen lessons explo...

Standards-Based Educational Reform

progress (AYP) goals will face corrective action (U.S. Department of Education, 2004). The term higher standards is found consist...

Accounting Standards; Will Enron Happen Again?

the GEC directors took control of the company, and therefore the accounts this ?10 million profit turned into a $4.5 million loss ...

International Accounting Convergence; IFRS and US GAAP

rely on information flow and also trust. Annual accounts are a major tool used by potential investors to assess an investment. Alt...

Evaluating Caltron's Accounting Practices

secondary public stock offering in early February following the current reporting period. Managements concerns should lie with de...

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...

Enron & WorldCom: Who Blew The Whistle?

agreement -- why should the whistle blowers? This is precisely how the handful of individuals felt when they learned their corpor...

ACCOUNTING FRAUD

this was that the collapse of these companies came down to the financials. The purpose of financial accounting is to develop repor...

Ebbers Behind Bars

prosecution witness and is "crucial to the prosecutions case," since he is the only witness who said that "he spoke directly to Mr...

Enron and WorldCom Financial Statement Manipulation

processes (Chidi, 2002). Some of the accounting techniques used at WorldCom in order to supplement R&D write-offs included the use...

Improper Accounting Practices

derivative, why its typically used and how its typically used. Following that, we can go in depth into both Enron and Worldcom, an...

Businesses and Individuals Confront Dishonesty

corresponding functional interest in them * The interests of all stakeholders are of intrinsic value (Donaldson et al, 1995, pp. 6...

America's Changing Business Ethics

these contributions finds one incorporating the interests of ethics and morality within the corporate structure, essential concept...

Values and Business Ethics

of philosophy dealing with right and wrong and the morality of motives and ends" (Shaughnessy, 2002, p. 20). But questions of ethi...

Corporate Governance Issue Examined

effect to such things, and these situations are no different. When people lose jobs, families suffer, economies suffer, communiti...

WorldCom and Enron Comparison

its current ratio is understandable. WorldComs values in these two ratios reflect its precarious operation position. Neith...

Companies and Class Action Lawsuits

about their eligibility. Q. How much money will I receive? A. You are eligible to receive a share of the settlement only if you o...

WorldCom and Enron

for bankruptcy due to its inability to hide such tremendous losses any longer. It took a matter of three month for the company to...

WorldCom, Enron, and Ethics

employees - and even the economy. In the end, no one has benefited from either situation, because the methods were done in secrecy...

Performance of the Stock Market and the Effects of WorldCom and Enron Failures

This demand is impacted by information regarding that share as well as market conditions. In the case of Enron and WorldCom the we...

Marketing in a Post 911 Era

as consumers have an increased awareness of less tangible aspects, such as corporate governance and ethical and moral responsibili...

Accounting Techniques Used inWorldCom's Acquisitions and Mergers

international services as part of WorldCom Inc which operates over countless seamless networks. In regards to revenues and traffic...

Ongoing Debate Regarding WorldCom

disturbing facts is that the WorldCom documents that were released in July to the special Financial Services Committee of the U.S....

WorldCom, Enron, and the Application of Business Failure Prediction Models

known as the going concern concept1. In looking at the viability of the business the potential creditors are seeking to ensure tha...

Uncertain Economy and the Future of Worldcom

the technology sector, particularly in high-tech, Internet-related companies, set investors on their collective ear. Few expected...