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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 EXPLANATION OF INFLATION ACCOUNTING

firm (Smith, 2007). Myddelton (1992) has pointed out that companies that dont make inflation adjustments in their financi...

OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS FOR NEW ZEALAND COMPANIES IN BRIC

came up with one day. The nations of Brazil, Russia, India and China were developing nations with a great deal of potential which ...

Financial Ratios from Three Industries

type of operations for each firm and the inherent in each of the industries and the condition in which they operate. Looking fir...

Assessment of the Breakeven Point for AT&T in 2009

need to differentiate between the fixed costs and the variable costs. The traditional approach variable costs are these are the di...

Strategy at Bunge

when a firm follows a strategy of diversification, but it is not always an advantageous. For a firm to undertake diversification t...

The Performance of BMW in 2009

manufacture cars, motorcycles and engines. The company was founded in 1916, is best known for its high end vehicles; strong in ter...

Seventh Generation Culture and Structure

it is to protect the earth. This is a message that is likely to have a wide appeal, it builds on the preconceptions that larger co...

WORLDCOM AND FRAUDULENT ACCOUNTING

2005). The result would be an increase in the current years EBIDTA (Scharff, 2005). The line costs, in fact, were the main ...

BAILOUTS, BONUSES AND ETHICS

more information on using this paper properly! For as long as mankind has lived within a more communal environment, the split be...

IMPLEMENTING A TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM IN A COMPANY

and installation guys, on the other hand, probably wouldnt care about a training schedule or support strategy. A companys receptio...

Problems with a Duel Remuneration System in a Single Company

to be faced, in order to assess challenges and the best way to deal with them it is essential to consider the background of the co...

Company Mergers and Transitioning to a Single Network Operating System

In thirteen pages this paper presents a single operating system transition proposal for merging companies that includes an executi...

Wilco Construction Company System Outputs

In a paper consisting of five pages an output system design for Wilco Construction is discussed in terms of system tracking of inn...

ACCOUNTING STANDARDS: PRINCIPLES VERSUS RULES

exactly, rules and principals are as they pertain to accounting. Its comforting to reach for rules in times of crisis, in order to...

PRINCIPLES VS. RULES-BASED ACCOUNTING: AN ETHICAL STUDY

serious ethical situations could occur. In 2008, the SEC began allowing foreign corporations to file financial information...

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...

Public Finance

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

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...

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...

Cost Accounting

Every plant manager and retailer understands that overhead, labor and the cost of materials combine to create the final cost of pr...

Accounting Questions

of its economic life. The historical cost convention can result in some difficulties, as some assets will be written off, but may ...

Critique of James G. Hollandsworth Jr.’s The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

Airbus Case Study

has been the dominant supplier of aircraft. It was only in 1970 when Airbus was formed that a potential long-term competitor becam...

Are Accounting Reforms And Legislation Are The Only Means By Which The Accounting Profession Will be Able To Regain Public Trust And Re-Establish Its’ Credibility?

fraud, and it was with this we might argue there was the first loss of confidence in the auditors. This case limited the liability...

Accounting: Principles-Based Or Rules-Based?

and diligence and independence at the auditing level" (Anonymous, 2003). From a broader perspective, one of the main reason...

Financial Projections

to itself. However, there are costs when using funding from reserves, there are opportunity costs. If the money is taken out of th...

Ethics in Accounting Practice: Rules Based Accounting versus the Conceptual Framework

is trying to create accounting standards that are defined in terms of objectives but do not rely on "specific rules" (" A Conversa...