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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...

Market Value Add and Economic Value Add

reflecting a more accurate statement of a companys health and wealth (Stern Stewart & Co., 1999). In most cases, "opportunity cost...

Overview of Vampirism

became a variety of vampire lore which abounded. Interestingly enough, however, the basic idea that this entity was the undead, ca...

Business Importance of Inventory Accounting

Well also offer an explanation of simplified LIFO, which is fast outpacing FIFO as the inventory accounting method of choice. What...

Cost Accounting and its Historic Uses

use historic cost methods, he or she would value business (b) based on the price business (a) paid for the acquisition, rather tha...

Deceptive Reporting and Methodologies for Financial Accounting

is precisely what Enron did (Thomas, 2002). Because of this, Enron, before everything collapsed, boosted valuation estimates, with...

Shakespeare's Comedy No Error

for supper. Meanwhile her REAL husband returns home, but is denied entry by Antipholus slave. During the course of the meal, Antip...

A Case Study on Accounting Issues

need to consider the way the companies is going to compete. For example, the structure of a company seeking to develop a cost adva...

Organization Evaluation of JTF FA

of the hierarchy. While Webers idea in practice may not work as well as many would like, it should be kept in mind that Weber inte...

Australian Corporations Act of 2001 and Public Company Directors

that this move was constitutional (Lexis, 2004). The idea may have been to increase protection for shareholders and develop unifor...

World Marketplace and Accounting Procedural Standardization

for publicly held companies under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Rosengren and Jordan 3). The entire mission and purpose of...

Marginal Costing and Total Costing Uses

ability to include overhead and indirect costs, and the ability to make allowances for past and future outlays. In many ways we ma...

Accounting Comparison of the United States Safeway Company and the United Kingdom Sainsbury Company

and Elliott, 1998). The aims of the ASC were numerous, firstly they defined the accounting concepts under SSAP2 Elliot and Elliott...

Creative Accounting Incentives and Maintenance

share price performance. There are also the wider culture issues that encourage this and place an onerous duty on those who may be...

Personal Computer Problems as a Sample Essay Narrative

would help me become a self-employed entrepreneur, and the tasks that used take me hours complete would now be simply a matter of ...

Stock Options and FASB

were worth absolutely nothing. Because of this scenario, the FASB wants companies to value options, to provide shareholders with a...

Financial Performance of Saks Inc.

will be some very poor results. Sales have reduced from $6.6 billion to $6.1 billion, and with costs of $6 billion with the need f...

Public Schools in the State of Virginia

schools from grades K-12 was about 1.1 million during the school year 1998-1999, with these students attending 1,815 elementary, j...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Low Unemployment and the Objectives of Macroeconomics

for individual welfare and national strength. Additionally, the supply of output depends on the supply of resources or inputs and...

Increased Popularity of Leasing

purchase even where a loan is used. A finance agreement, where a purchase is made, the goods pass from the vendor to the purchaser...

Counseling Approach That is Person Centered

with the fear of abandonment on different levels throughout their adulthood. Elderly nursing home patients are found to have aban...

Law Enforcement and Discretionary Power

could hear her better. From all indications the woman was under the influence of some narcotic substance as her gaze was fixed, he...

Questions and Answers on Health Care Finance

volume is impacted by the effects of cost and revenues. . Hunt (1996) provides information in regards to cost accounting for a n...

Globalization and Multinational Accounting Practices

importance of continued international accounting education, recommendations for implementation and enforcement of the IFACs code o...

The Effects of the World Trade Center Attacks on Wall Street

Those estimates were off by a margin of 13 billion (Updegrave, 2001). However, Updegrave goes on to reassure, stating that a sect...

Creation, Man's Fall, and the Great Flood in Metamorphoses of Ovid and The Holy Bible

the kindred heaven. It was this earth, mixed with water, that Prometheus, child of Titan Iapetus, fashioned into the image of the ...