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Offshore Pension Plan Investment

The Dow nearly crossed into 3,000 territory long enough to close there on several occasions prior to the Gulf War in 1991 and fina...

Corporate Systems of Budgetary Control

to a corporation, it would first be helpful to define what, precisely is involved in budgetary control systems. First of all, a bu...

Comparing Nike to Manchester United

what the actual value of the company is and deduct the physical asset. This can then be considered in terms of the actual amount, ...

Accounting Techniques Used inWorldCom's Acquisitions and Mergers

international services as part of WorldCom Inc which operates over countless seamless networks. In regards to revenues and traffic...

UK Accounting Standards on Short and Long Term Cable and Wireless

top 41.89 from 43.73%. The return on assets fell from 16.6% to 12.12%. Return on equity also showed a fall, from 44.15% to 18.79%....

Early American History and Free African Americans

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

Debate on the Necessity of IAS

however, is based more on general principles, which force auditors to comply with the spirit of the law, rather than the letter of...

Projections of Cost and Breaking Even Accounting Case Study

indicated not only did the parents love them, that the toy shop owners also loved them, thinking they would be a hit. Kirk worke...

Analysis of Corporate Annual Account Finances

This figure is ?52.5, giving an operating profit margin of 3.45% This is taken to two significant figures. If we look at the figur...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

as her Gran, her brother and several aunt and uncles (Perez-Stable 24). When the Old Mistress in the house dies, Jacobs comes unde...

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...

Harmonization and IAS

of international standards. It is only if there are international standards that international stakeholders may be able to see acc...

How Contemporaries Depicted Hernan Cortes and Christopher Columbus

The first impression that we get is that Cortes is a determined and logical man. He attempts this journey, and has to overcome...

Special Purpose Entities and Accounting at Enron

This approach was legal and acceptable under FASB rules at the time. The Enron-specific problem arose when Enron did not consolid...

Freire's 'Banking Concept of Education' Analyzed

a bank customer "fills" his or her bank "container" or account with money. Much like bank accounts, students are able to receive, ...

Questions Pertaining to Accounting

to ?68,599 in 19X7. This is an increase of ?53,537, or 76% (calculated by taking 53,537 which is the increase between 19X7...

Cost Structure and the Airline Industry

In this way the more operating leverage an airline has, the greater its business risk will be. Despite the fact that many analyst...

A HOSPITAL HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM

Types of medical data and information records relevant to this project. The importance of uniform terminology, coding and...

Diaz del Castillo/The Conquest of New Spain

and pride of race, a lust of gold and a blind faith in their religion, together with an absolute contempt for that of other men we...

History of California: The Railroad

and political power people can possess, and many other grand images. But, at the same time he moves toward illustrating to the rea...

International Accounting Convergence; IFRS and US GAAP

rely on information flow and also trust. Annual accounts are a major tool used by potential investors to assess an investment. Alt...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

attitude for science and the availability of educational opportunities, and the need for nurses in the job market, a the heart of ...

Case Study: Decision Time at Lotus Corporation

1994). Not coincidentally, it also made Lotus the leader in the application software sector (Case study, 1994). Lotus believed th...

IASC Standards' Approval Hesitation of the SEC

This paper discusses the IASC's accounting standards in a consideation of why the SEC has delayed acceptance of them in six pages....

Civil War Memoirs' Analysis of Co. Aytch by Sam R. Watkins and All for the Union by Elisha Hunt Rhodes

participated as a foot soldier for the duration. It details Rhodes impressive ascent through the infantry ranks, beginning first ...

Financial Management, Accounting, and Scotsman Industries, Inc.

In five pages this paper presents a case study of Scotsman Industries, Inc. in a consideration of how organizational value can be ...

Tutorial on Washington State's Certified Public Accountants

In five pages the question of why in the state of Washington a student of accounting should change to a Certified Public Accountan...

United Kingdom's Fraud Cases and Accounting Regulatory Authorities

In ten pages this paper examines cases of Wickes BCCI, Maxwell, Guinness, and Barings Bank in a consideration of UK accounting reg...

A Case Study Featuring Activity Based Costing

to understand this we need to look at what we mean by activity based cost accounting and how it actually works so that the potenti...

AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline Finance

In fifteen pages this paper considers the financial values of these massive pharmaceutical operations and include accounting diffe...