inventory valuation? Measuring inventory effectively is paramount in keeping financial statements of a company up-to-date. Inventories represent a large proportion -in most companies- of short-term assets on the balance sheet. If valuation method i Continue Reading...
Pension Plan GAASB Changes GAASB has implemented changes to Pension Plan reporting that go into effect on June 15, 2013 for Statement 67 and June 15, 2014 for Statement 68. This will affect the accounting and financial statement reporting of governm Continue Reading...
Cultural Diversity in United Arab Emirates Organizations The purpose of the proposed study will be to evaluate the current levels of cultural diversity in United Arab Emirates (UAE) public and private sector organizations and their implications for Continue Reading...
Grocery Store by Entrance of Hypermarkets in Bangkok Thailand Small grocery store owners in Thailand are faced with the ever growing threat of foreign -- owned hypermarkets. Hypermarkets are part of a global trend that threatens to destroy the smal Continue Reading...
Thanks to a crash in the value of telecom assets, 90% of that net loss (or $45 billion) was due to a charge for the reduction of the value of goodwill carried on its books" (Galarza 2001). When investors see companies such as JDS Uniphase declare a Continue Reading...
validity of establishing Section 115 by the FASB. It has 4 sources. The FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board) in the recent years have revised many accounting standards and policies to effectively govern corporations for the benefit of the pu Continue Reading...
downsizing on Manufacturing Industries The amount of information on the effects of down sizing on manufacturing was not plentiful, however one main point that flows through all of the articles is that even though down sizing may be done to help a c Continue Reading...
Accounting information can be used by business owners to carry out a financial analysis of the businesses and their operations. The use of this information for such function is attributed to the fact that it usually contains quantitative and qualitat Continue Reading...
Accounting: Ethical Issues in Budgeting What should an employee do when he or she discovers that there is an error in a projection? Accounting professionals have a duty to observe high standards of conduct and integrity in order to uphold the reput Continue Reading...
Accounting and Finance Solving Problems Solutions P4-5: Microsoft Statements of Cash Flow 1999-2001 The Microsoft Corporation uses the indirect method to prepare the statement of the cash flow. The cash flow by operating activities is prepared by r Continue Reading...
Accounting and Finance Determine the costs that should be capitalized in the machinery account Capitalization is the act of recognizing costs that provide a future economic benefit by setting up an asset account (Power Point). The costs that should Continue Reading...
Arthur Anderson: Questionable Accounting Parctices Arthur Anderson: Questionable Accounting Practices Arthur Andersen LLP was founded in 1913, and for over 90 years, the company would have become one of the "Big Five" largest accounting and auditin Continue Reading...
Professionalism Accounting The accounting profession is one of great responsibility and duty. Certain obligations are required of those who wish to manage the financial affairs of the businesses and organizations that keep the economy, and eventuall Continue Reading...
FASB Impacts The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) was established with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 1933 (SOX) to establish accounting standards for protection of investors and other users of financial statements. Standards implemented by FA Continue Reading...
International accounting - Evaluate research theories and methodologies to classify accounting systems internationally The necessity of accounting standards is given by the fact that financial statements should describe financial performance in a fa Continue Reading...
Information System holds in Accounting Industry's future? Looking through the glass and estimating what the future holds for any individual or profession is always a difficult exercise as the trends in any business or profession may change and so t Continue Reading...
Movie Accounting An analysis is done of the accounting methods employed in the world of glitz, glamour, fame and money in other words the movie industry to assess the increasing disparity between the techniques adopted by them to arrive at the finan Continue Reading...
With software and technological oversight, many of the errors experienced by Insight Enterprises could have been avoided. Furthermore, the duration that these errors occurred suggests that proper oversight of accounting was not in the company. With Continue Reading...
Ethics and Accounting - Financial Decision-Making Ethics in Accounting and Financial Decision Making The article Ethical guidance and constraints under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 by R.M. Orin (2008), espouses the belief that the Sarbanes-Oxley Continue Reading...
S. listing. Present Status: A lot of nations are moving on to IFRS in the wake of the regulatory developments for adopting the same. The Security and Exchange Commission -- SEC's non-requirement of foreign firms reporting under IFRS to deposit reco Continue Reading...
New Rules for Lease Accounting: The Controversy The Accounting Lease Controversy The Advantages of the new system Voices Against the New Lease Accounting Model The Accounting Lease Controversy The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) Continue Reading...
conception that is laid behind write-down of inventory is that the amount value of the inventory being considered can still appear in the financial statements only if the inventory still has some worth or value. This particular amount value is attai Continue Reading...
Financial Standards Reporting standards for financial transactions have been varied with regard to countries and companies across the globe for many years. This fact has made it difficult for transactions to be reported with any great degree of accu Continue Reading...
IAS 17 Leases Explain the key features of the current accounting standard. You should use at least one illustrative example for lessee accounting from a published set of financial statements to illustrate the effect of the standard IAS 17 accountin Continue Reading...
Relevance Materiality Quantitative The Financial Year/Accounting Period Concept Application of Literature Review into practice for IKEA's 3-year (2009-2010-2011) financial reports What is missing and ok in the reports? The good and bad points o Continue Reading...
It is hypothesized that regular TM practice will bolster ethical decision-making and ethical reasoning, especially as those skills relate to the accounting profession. Moreover, TM should have a measurable effect on personal value systems, measured Continue Reading...
Apart from this FASB has decided that capitalization of IPR&D will only apply to business combinations. When assets are purchased, and they are not viewed as businesses under GAAP in U.S., would continue to have IPR&D as expenses. One of the Continue Reading...
Ethical Issues in AIS Ethical Issues in Accounting Information Systems This essay examines ethical issues in accounting information systems as presented in the case of DHB Industries. Now known as Point Blank Solutions, the company, which supplied Continue Reading...
transparency seems to be a huge concern for the accounting profession and that many specialists (e.g. professionals and organizations in the accountancy profession such as Tilley (2010)) see transparency as remaining the next huge issue in the next Continue Reading...
Sunbeam Corporation's fraudulent accounting for its financial years 1996, 1997 and early 1998. The essay also reviews the historic audit failure that occurred, and discusses factors that contributed to the scandal and ways in which it might have bee Continue Reading...
Fixed assets are assets and property that cannot be easily converted into cash. The public sector deals with those that mainly involve expense, whilst the private sector deals with tangible property such as machinery, factory buildings, and large co Continue Reading...
Olympus Accounting Scandal In economic boom that occurred in 1980s, a lot of Japanese enterprises struggled to sustain sales in international market because of the strong yen. Akin to several other businesses, Olympus offset its decreasing sales by Continue Reading...
Dole and Nestle Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP) When it comes to the preparation as well as presentation of financial statements in the United States, there are a number of accounting procedures and rules used by entities in an Continue Reading...
GASB No.34's government financial reporting model: Evidence on its information relevance, published in The Accounting Review. This article looks at a government accounting regulation, GASB No. 34, which requires lower level governments to provide "c Continue Reading...
