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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...

Definition of Accounting Categories

cash in bank account. Long-term assets tend to be relatively easy to identify, and may also be referred to as fixed assets, and in...

Financial and Management Accounting and the Use of CVP

is also useful to understand that management accounting also allows a greater amount of planning giving costs for different scenar...

Allocating Common Costs

that the costs may be allocated, they may be slit equally between the three departments, or it is more likely that there will be s...

Issues Concerning Internal Controls

is in place the key element is that of accountability (Watts. 2007). Authority is also likely to be linked a system of authoriza...

Comparing WalMart and Carrefour

notable that the results may not be directly comparable due to the different accounting regulations in which the annual reports ar...

Accounting Tools That Help Non-Accountants Make Capital Investments Decisions

sales will recoup the investment, the payback period, These have value is looking at he amount of sales that need to be made and t...

Stock Option Valuation: The Ethical Dimensions

window (regardless of the actual movements of the stock). In doing so, organizations not only offset their compensation obligation...

Tender Mercies/CPS Investigations

job frequently encompasses. Richards explains that this is a "Catch-22" situation, as he can "only force a physical exam by court...

Responsibility Accounting Applied to Coca-Cola

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

Cruise Sector Accounting Practices

(P&O) which had been one of the most important British shipping companies that existed since the nineteenth century (Napier, 1990)...

Settlement Certificates Accounting

In a paper consisting of five pages and with the assistance of general accounting principles a case involving certificates issued ...

Accounting and the Impact of Technology

online equivalent to the standard accounting function. Of course every migration from age-old procedures to a format compatible w...

Decisions in Management Accounting Cases

Supplies Carpeting 1st year Carpeting 2nd year Sales 304,000 580,000 580,000 Remodeling - 12,400 - Variable Costs 228,000 322,000 ...

Accounting, Environment, and Society

accounts has been laid down by the use of statutory instruments such as the Companies Acts as well as regulations laid down by the...

Case Study on Activity Based Costing

In six pages a financially troubled public broadcasting company is examined in terms of the issue as to whether or not a new video...

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...

Tyco Case Study

ship empty boxes to Maine while the actual art work was delivered to his home in the city, he could claim his home as a business e...

Public Finance

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

FINANCIAL REPORTING AND OVERSIGHT

compliance procedure, lack of standardized accounting procedures for Heinz divisions, no effective review and monitoring process, ...

Overview of IAS

In nine pages international accounting standards are examined in terms of investments, cash flow reporting, retirement benefits, t...

Cost Accounting by V. Daniel Hunt

This 5 page paper discusses Hunt's book and provides an overview of basic cost accounting procedures and considers the importance ...

Globalization, Multinational Corporations, and International Accounting Standards

In fourteen pages this report examines the impact of globalization in terms of financial accounting complexities in this considera...

The Media and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

The Gettysburg address is one of the most memorable of all political addresses. Journalist accounts of the address were plentiful...

International Accounting and Singapore

This research paper explains accepted accounting principles, such as the GAAP and the writer discusses how differences between the...

Traditional Accounting Concepts and Conflict

In six pages this paper discusses how different approaches to accounting can result in conflict with particular emphasis upon the ...

Singapore's Accounting Framework

In five pages this paper examines Singapore's accounting framework, its colonial influence, and how standards of accounting have b...

Technology Uses in Accounting

In this paper consisting of six pages using technology to automate accounting procedures is examined by determining a correlation ...

An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

This 6 page essay examines author Miguel Leon Portilla's "The Broken Spears : The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico&quo...