This role is in response to clients' demands for a single trustworthy individual or firm to meet all of their financial needs. However, accountants are restricted from providing these services to clients whose financial statements they also prepare. 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...
Another challenge facing the industry today is the important legal issues that surround the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Koehn & Del Vecchio, 2004). One of these is the fact that the process of due diligence practiced by many companies is now taking muc Continue Reading...
Accounting Career Choice Accounting has become one of the most popular degree choices in recent years because it can lead to a great deal of careers that can be much more exciting than they may initially sound. The problem for the student who choose Continue Reading...
This process has been ongoing since then. One of the major differences between the two standards is going to be that whereas GAAP emphasizes rules, the IFRS is a principle-based approach. Implementing a principles-based approach has significant imp Continue Reading...
Accounting The role of financial statements in investing is that they provide a consistent format that can be used by potential investors and other stakeholders to evaluate a company. There are several components that facilitate this happening. For Continue Reading...
(5) Auditors and CPAs should consider several ways that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and SEC implementation rules as a whole impact accountants and work closely with regulators to address these effects. (6) Public accounting firms need to reconsider exter Continue Reading...
Accounting internal control is the methods and procedures used to ensure the accuracy and validity of the financial statements, as well as to protect against abuse and fraud, making sure information is delivered in an accurate and timely manner. (Gri Continue Reading...
Sarbanes-Oxley stipulates criminal and civil penalties for securities violations. Also, it mandates auditor independence from the interests of the firm, meaning that accountants cannot have a financial interest in the success or failure of the firm. Continue Reading...
Corporate Governance: A review of Literature What is Corporate Governance? Principles of Corporate Governance Theoretical foundations of corporate governance Agency theory Stewardship theory Stakeholder theory Post-Enron theories Corporate Go Continue Reading...
This leads to the inability to compare financial statements reliably with each other (Seay & Ford, 2010). A second concern is that the income statement will reflect increased volatility due to fair market writeups or writedowns. The third concer Continue Reading...
"Management believes that the accounting estimates employed are appropriate and the resulting balances are reasonable; however, due to the inherent uncertainties in making estimates actual results could differ from the original estimates, requiring Continue Reading...
Corporate Social Responsibility Unfortunately, corporations are given considerable leeway by the government and are allowed to sidestep rules, misinform or withhold information from the public; and otherwise avoid accountability. As Estes writes in Continue Reading...
.....ethical for an employer to use social media information as a factor when considering whether to hire an employee? What about monitoring social networking activities of employees while on the job? Use ethical reasoning in answering these question Continue Reading...
Corporate Compliance Plan: Riordan Manufacturing Our company, Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer employing 550 people with projected annual earnings of $46 million. The company is wholly owned by Riordan Industries, a Fortune Continue Reading...
Loyalty to the client was clearly placed above loyalty to the overall public good and the standards of the profession. "Enron paid Andersen $25 million for its audit…and $27 million for 'consulting' and other services" which meant that Anderso Continue Reading...
Accounting and the Public Interest: The accounting profession is not only an integral aspect of the society but it also plays a critical role in the nation and the corporate sector. As a result, this profession is expected to serve or contribute tow Continue Reading...
Accounting Ethics Ethics of Accounting There have been breaches in the ethics of accounting in recent times. With that in mind, evaluate whether or not the current trend in the regulation of business establishments is favorable to ethical behavior. Continue Reading...
Corporate Crime Through History And Its Place in Corporate America Today Corporate crimes have taken center stage in our thoughts, imaginations and most importantly on the front pages of our newspapers. Of course, with the recent incarceration of Ma Continue Reading...
However, they have also changed the face of the accounting profession in a way that will affect the education and conduct of accountants in the future. In the future, the accountant will have to do more than to balance the books. In order to underst Continue Reading...
The stock was trading on pink sheets at $0.165 per share at the end of April 2003" (8). As noted above, one of the key factors involved in what happened at HealthSouth was the enormous pressure to perform in the increasingly competitive for-profit Continue Reading...
Accounting in British Petroleum Scope, Aims, and Objectives The research project proposed herein will examine the role of accounting in the past progression and current situation of British Petroleum, the company that came under intense public scru Continue Reading...
Corporate governance of finances in major corporations has been a major controversy during the recent recession. The scandal at Satyam is indicative of problems across the board, from CEOS, to executive boards, to independent auditors and even accoun Continue Reading...
(Ibid.). Major Changes in the Accounting Profession The financial scandals proved to be a turning point in many ways for the accounting profession. The public outcry forced the legislatures to reexamine the regulatory environment for businesses, r Continue Reading...
Ethically, the actions of Enron management were reprehensible. From a deontological perspective, they broke laws. From a consequentialist perspective, their actions resulted in significant financial losses for millions of people, job losses for thou Continue Reading...
However, the application of the 3% independent ownership has been restructured to make SPEs much clearer to delineate between parent company ownership and independent ownership. Another major issue that arose out of the Enron scandal is the manipul Continue Reading...
Purpose/Perceived Value The findings of this report will be valuable to two different audiences. The first consists of accounting regulatory bodies. These bodies are working towards convergence and are presently struggling with the resistance from Continue Reading...
Accounting and Intrusion Detection In a report issued by Paladin Technologies, Inc., entitled: "Security Metrics: Providing Cost Justification for Security Projects," 273 organizations were surveyed on the topic of security. The report illustrates i Continue Reading...
Accounting There are several career options within the accounting field. An accounting education provides the basic knowledge that can serve as a useful springboard for any number of different careers within the field. Some of the many options are i Continue Reading...
Reliability & Validity The key will be to find reliability and validity. Reliability, of course, is the concept that if someone else does the same exact research in the same exact way, the research conclusions drawn will be close to if not ent Continue Reading...
Corporate Governance in Harris Scarfe: Harris Scarfe Department Stores is a company that was founded in 1849 in Adelaide, South Australia and housed various major South Australian department stores. The history of the organization is traced to a per Continue Reading...
Accounting Theory Over the year, the world scholars continue to evaluate the economics of the world to understand their functioning. In this course, they developed the subject of accounting to assess the frameworks of financial principles. The accou Continue Reading...
Accounting Standards Financial reporting practices and ethical standards in health care finance constitute the foundation of every successful organization. Healthcare organizations and other industries in the general market adopt Generally Accepted Continue Reading...
Revenues for the Miami Dade Police Department 2011 to 2012 Revenue Source Amount (in thousands of dollars) General Funds $488,535 911 Fees $13,249 Parking / Traffic Surcharges $4,190 Federal Grants $9,204 Carryover $15,738 Contract Ser Continue Reading...
But these bills were not received and paid for several months since these costs were incurred, while accounting principles required that the company made such payment estimations that were supposed to be matched by the revenues in the income stateme Continue Reading...
PENALTIES - CIVIL & CRIMINAL There are statutes that impose penalties both civil and criminal for government contractors who commit fraud, waste or abuse. Some of those statutes are as follows: False Claims Act; False Statements Act; Forfeit Continue Reading...
Corporate Social Responsibility (Sony) Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is no longer a tenable option to just be silent. Companies have to take responsibilities of their actions as a result of the impacts their businesses causes to the communit Continue Reading...
In short, corporate financial planning oversight can be greatly restrained and monopolized if the locus of corporate control is not all that large (Brav, 2009). Macroeconomic Condition Influence Another unquestionable influence on corporate financ Continue Reading...
Accounting II ABC Overall risk profile The ABC Company may face series of risks based on the current industry and economic issues. First, the company is operating in a competitive market environment making the company to face a fierce competition f Continue Reading...
Green alternatives for corporations outside don't just stop at the roof though. Natural landscaping can be used to reduce irrigation requirements. Roof drainage can be reclaimed, along with storm runoff, to be used in irrigation. For corporations Continue Reading...
