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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...

Accounting Questions

rules and audits the accounts. When looking at the failure of Enron it is these accounting standards that appear to fail. In looki...

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...

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...

Enron's Accounting Practices Assessed

made available to all of the outside world including Wall Street analysts. The news of its financial problems came as a surprise ...

Application of I.A.S.-1

important. It is also not limited to those nations with a well-established corporate base, either. Many of the worlds developing...

Investment Questions; Regulation, Bonds and Risk

In the financial markets are regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The principal purpose of the SEC is to "pr...

Negative Aspects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

not been given any authority greater than that which resides in with the Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC), which can cause ...

Fraud - The Legal and Ethical Dimensions

fraud when accounting (Miller & Bahnson, 2005). In addition to the GAAP standards, some businesses, especially those outside the U...

Research Results: Have Attitudes Towards Whistle Blowing Change since Enron?

The writer analyses survey results provided by the student. The survey was undertaken to determine whether or not attitudes toward...

Applications of Corporate Governance Issues to McBride Financial Services

in an accounting system that made many of the concealments that took place legal, or at least borderline, and the attitudes of tho...

Overview of International Accounting Standards

In twelve pages IAS are examined in terms of issues, controversies, and views from other countries regarding their practice. Seve...

International Accounting Standard in Australia

The writer argues that since 2005 when Australia adopted IFRS the general standards have fallen resulting from increased complexit...

INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS AND GAAP

IFRS guidance pertaining to revenue recognition tends to be less extensive than that of GAAPs. Nor does the IRFS contain industry-...

European Union's Partial Endorsing of the International Accounting Standard 39 and its Impact

serves international business by reducing risk, but this tool is under threat due to the new IAS 39 which will impact on all Europ...

Analysis of International Accounting Standards

Despite the fact that much of Europe is united in terms of currency under the euro, many of the accounting rules (at least until J...

Globalization, Multinational Corporations, and International Accounting Standards

In fourteen pages this report examines the impact of globalization in terms of financial accounting complexities in this considera...

The Accounting Profession

The writer examines the accounting profession and its potential. The writer provides an overview of the field and several specialt...

Questions on International Accounting Answered

2002). The adjustments were ?14 million for 2001 and in 2000 there was an adjustment of ?21.5 million including an adjustment of ?...

DOUBLE STANDARD BY ELLEN WATKINS HARPER

girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...

WorldCom and Rising Auditing Standards

stock prices and other similar situations. When it is determined that an investigation should delve further into the busine...

The Role of the Financial Accounting Standards Board

The way that these processes take place is overseen by the Financial Accounting Foundations Board of Trustees (FASB, 2010). The F...

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...

Evaluating Caltron's Accounting Practices

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

Accounting Dichotomies

date by the time they are read. Therefore, there is an importance that these need to be understood and be set by standards. Howe...

Creative Accounting and the Failure of Accounting Standards to Prevent It

there are variations, which if all put together may make a very large impact on results. There is a need for many company to try a...

SPEs Altering Interpretation

SPE that is not subject to control through voting ownership interests and would require each enterprise involved with such an SPE ...

Book Fifteen of Matthew, Lines Thirty Two through Thirty NIne

In six pages this paper considers the variations of this passage from the Book of Matthew that appear in the King James, American ...

Traditional Accounting Concepts and Conflict

In six pages this paper discusses how different approaches to accounting can result in conflict with particular emphasis upon the ...

China's Accounting Practices

In this paper consisting of six pages accounting problems as they relate to government intervention and cultural influences are di...