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...
Management Accounting in a Growing Business One of the most important factors towards the success, productivity, and growth of a business is management accounting whose significance has attracted considerable attention in the recent past because of 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...
The balance sheet includes two main categories, assets and liabilities and shareholders' equity. Both of these are in turn split into current assets and other assets. In terms of current assets, all three companies include inventory, cash and cash 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...
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...
The statement also outlines its scope. For example, it outlines that the rules governing the valuation of financial instruments are to be used, even with investment companies. Though investment companies are subject to other rules and guidelines, t Continue Reading...
roles of forensic accountants in preventing and detecting fraud within a business community. The paper highlights the requisites and basic responsibilities of a forensic accountant. The paper also makes references on the special cases where forensic 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...
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...
Leadership The readings this past week covered some different concepts. The Cnaan readings encompassed the topic of community elites and power structure, but Rikki Abzug, which provided an overview of the mid-20th century sociological thought on the Continue Reading...
IASB The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) currently has three types of active projects on their agenda. These include an agenda consultation project, financial crisis related projects, and memorandum of understanding projects. The fol Continue Reading...
University has offered its professor $200,000 in order to relinquish tenure and resign. In particular, the aspect to consider is the tax consequence of such compensation. The professor's standpoint is that tenure should be treated as an intangible c Continue Reading...
Premier Products The contribution margin is the revenue less the variable costs. We know the price for each product, and we know the variable material costs. Labor costs are also know ($5/hr). Thus, the remaining issue is the allocation of overhead, Continue Reading...
The major difference between cash and accrual basis accounting lies in when the expenses and revenues are recorded or recognized. The cash basis method accounts for revenues when money is actually received regardless of when the invoice was issued. E Continue Reading...
.....mission of the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) exerts upon the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) The Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) was established with the main purpose of addressing and coming up with resolve for current issues Continue Reading...
Summary There are certain aspects of Tesla' s business model that distinguish it from other automakers. These manifest either in its accounting policies, or in the ways in which those policies will affect Tesla (but maybe not its competitors, ev Continue Reading...
The use of managerial accounting to keep profit margins where they need to be and make sure that individual product offerings are not a net drain on the company is not the only thing that Thai Airlines can and must do to keep a competitive edge and Continue Reading...
Decision Making and Accounting Theories Business owners find that they always have to put on business hats when they are starting up or managing their businesses. However in business it is not the owners who are meant to make decisions only, decisio Continue Reading...
Computerized Accounting Information Systems In a global contemporary business environment, the computerized accounting information systems have become an integral part of organizational accounting systems. The development Information and Communicat Continue Reading...
Managerial and Financial Accounting Case Managerial Accounting - Variable Costing Managerial accounting emphasizes short-term profit analysis, income statement important. Consequently, 'll examine discuss income statements case. Managerial and Fina Continue Reading...
competing cost accounting approaches and explores best practices implemented in different countries. The essay examines traditional cost accounting (CA), activity-based costing (ABC), Grenzplankostenrechnung (GPK), throughput accounting (TA) and res Continue Reading...
Ethics and Independence in the Accounting Profession There are according to the text, two primary reasons that people act unethically. A person will act unethically if there standards differ substantially from those of society "as a whole" or if the Continue Reading...
Managerial Accounting Elkay is a manufacturer of sinks. The company has three plants, serving different markets. The Ogden plant is high-volume, low-margin production. The company has new technology that makes it an innovator in efficiency. The Lumb Continue Reading...
LA Accounting Company The accomplishments of any business will depend upon its ability to reach out to customers. In the case of the accounting firm that is being examined, this is an important factor which is contributing its long-term success. To Continue Reading...
Ethical ChallengesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Impact of accounting on corporate performance 1Ethical Challenges Faced to Maintain Cost Accounting 1Ethical Issue in Cost Accounting 1What are the Factors that Influence Ethical Behavior in Cost Accou Continue Reading...
Lessons from Ethical Violations in Public AccountingPublic accounting is a field faced with ethical issues similar to any area of practice. Unethical practices in accounting are often motivated by management greed, incentives, bonus, management press Continue Reading...
Chapter 1: The Accounting Function in Microsoft Background of the Organization Microsoft Corporation is an American technology organization whose main center of operations are situated in Redmond, Washington. Founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates in 1 Continue Reading...
Internal Control and Accounting Analysis of ABC Limited: Analysis of Weaknesses and Recommendations The report was prepared to cover the requirements of the AAT ICAS unit. The AAT ICAS refers to an Internal Control and Accounting System where the r Continue Reading...
Strategic Perspectives in Management Accounting and Finance The main reason for differentiation in the accounting studies seemed to occur due to the functionalist perceptions in the expertise of social studies. According to Dellaportas and Davenport Continue Reading...
The mistake occurred when enthusiasts tried to use those data for other purposes such as 'strategic product decisions.' The average cost of production never could, and never will, be relevant for those classes of decisions where only the change in t Continue Reading...
There is an Earth Mother and a Sky Father that organize the universe; an evil-trickster or anti-hero that needs to be subdued, and a reason for humans to populate the earth. There are similar "issues" to explain: water, the sky, stars, weather, seas Continue Reading...
The applicability of Activity-Based Costing for decision making is directly linked to the influences that ABC has over process control. In this order of ideas, by better identifying the incurred costs or the overhead, managers can better monitor an Continue Reading...
Pappadeaux The current accounting system at Pappadeaux is fundamentally flawed, and the result is distorted performance figures for managers. Appendix A contains the basic income statement that Harry is using to evaluate Gregory, with variance noted Continue Reading...
Managerial Accounting -- Budgeting 1 & (1) Is this a static or flexible budget? Since many of the budget line items are based on student enrollment, this budget format is considered to be a flexible budget. The costs of providing instructors an Continue Reading...
In addition, service measures like customer satisfaction are also gauged. Production measures -- especially those related to efficiency and airplane load factors -- are also critical in decision-making at the organization. But the PSP philosophy ill Continue Reading...
