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Functions of Financial Statements

In seven pages financial statements are examined in terms of conceptual definitions, financial accounting assumptions, entry adjus...

The Independence of Auditors; the Australian Perspective

of independence. Independence in different roles not only the role of the auditor, but also independence within remuneration and s...

Accounting Frameworks - IFRS and US GAAP

last in first out stock management in the US. This is now mainly outdated and not used, but it is still possible to be used. In ot...

ACCOUNTING TERMS

Accrual Basis vs. Cash Basis Accounting The difference between these two methods of accounting is the way in which income ...

Two Articles on Ethics in Nursing Reviewed

ethics are a part of the concern. The hospital should not accept a patient load that it cannot handle. Another example of an issue...

Popular vs. Scholarly Resources

This essay offers a comparison between a popular article on account management versus a scholarly article on the same topic. This ...

Did Fair Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?

In 2007/8 there was the start of a global recession, which has also been referred to as the credit crunch. The writer looks at the...

An Application of Activity Based Costing

2007; Vieceli, 1999). This is a system that often takes advantage of new technology, the ABC system will identify the act...

The Benefits of Activity Based Costing

process of manufacture where there are at least a sequence of at least two activities required for the production of the product o...

Public Finance

seem as appropriate today as when he wrote them. 2. Governmental Accounting and Non-Governmental Accounting Governmental and non...

Tyco Case Study

ship empty boxes to Maine while the actual art work was delivered to his home in the city, he could claim his home as a business e...

SYSTEM THINKING AND THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS

of supply and inventory moves into a particular project, then goes through and ends up with the finished project. In a standard ma...

IAS 37

an agreed payment date (IAS Plus, 2008). Where there is a provision made this is not presenting a certainty, just a probable even...

Accounting Concepts and Reading Accounts

by the period over which it is creating revenue. For some items the historic cost is not a suitable measure. For example, building...

Cost of Equity and Cost of Debt at Disney Corp.

make an investment in a firm, either directly or in purchasing the shares in order to make a profit. The same risk and reward rela...

CRISES AND CHANGE IN ACCOUNTING STANDARDS

accounting theorists and professionals should be very wary and skeptical of the immediate reaction to make changes to an accountin...

The Value of the NKT Accounts to Help with Decision Making

although annual reports can be very useful documents not only ion reporting results and potential strategies which may be relevant...

SPE Accounting and Interpretation

that other entity and realizes the accounting principle shift as discussed by Schmutte and Duncan (2005). The scope of variable i...

Fair Value Accounting in Australia after the Financial Crisis

this it may be expected that Australia may be ahead on the way that regulation are implemented and the goals that are being espous...

Performance Accounting

in future planning and controlling costs, and it may be useful in evaluating performance. It certainly directly relates to the or...

The Relationship between Positive Accounting Theory and World Dimensions of Habermas

warming. This has been seen by many as a claim rather than a fact, arguing that there is insufficient proof, it was this reasoning...

Changes in Accounting Practice at Delta

on the accounts. The way that depreciation works is based in spreading the cost of a piece of equipment over the useful life, so t...

Measures to Reduce the Risk of Terrorism in the Finance and Accounting Sector

inevitably requires money laundering to take place. To consider the way that measures that are found within the accounting and fi...

Fair Value Accounting in the Economic Crisis

standards, but is further defined in individual standards. .The concept of fair value became an issue that would have pote...

ACCOUNTING PRESENTATIONS AND DIFFERENCES

for judgment calls, if and when necessary. A difference in these rules can have an impact on things such as fair-market value, mar...

Financial and Management Accounting and the Use of CVP

is also useful to understand that management accounting also allows a greater amount of planning giving costs for different scenar...

Allocating Common Costs

that the costs may be allocated, they may be slit equally between the three departments, or it is more likely that there will be s...

Accounting Tools That Help Non-Accountants Make Capital Investments Decisions

sales will recoup the investment, the payback period, These have value is looking at he amount of sales that need to be made and t...

Comparing WalMart and Carrefour

notable that the results may not be directly comparable due to the different accounting regulations in which the annual reports ar...

Improving Accounts Receivable

empowerment of the PFS staff, giving them responsibility over specific accounts and up to date tools to allow them to track the p...