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eCommerce Issues

(Fixmer, 2002). Network security. By 2002, there had been few lawsuits in this area, but even then it was recognized as on...

Silent and Shadow Accounts and Tesco

still an internal publication and may suffer from the same bias. It shadow accounts have the potential of addressing the asymmetry...

Marketing Costs and Application of Activity Based Costing

Swensens, which focused on ice cream in their independent shops. Though the independent shops segment was declining, the im...

Ethics and Financial Reporting

organizations that oversee accounting and its reporting are the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Accounting...

Benefits of Microsoft Excel

that number-crunchers have come to rely on" (p.29). The one main advantage of Excel, according to many experts (not to men...

Global Accounting Standards and Politics

also brings us to the argument of without international support of governments the IASB measures may not be as readily taken up an...

Accounting and Financials As They Involve Islamic Banking

For the most part, Islamic practices when it comes to money dont adapt themselves very well to more Anglo methods of accounting or...

GEICO Acquisition and Warren Buffett Case Study

there must be a separation of the roles of the CEO and board. In other words, agency theory says that management will not operate ...

Australian Accounting Standard AASB 138

so that it matching with the revenue it produces. Often this has been claimed as clashing with the concept of produce to acct for ...

Book Review of Near Failure in Kosovo by Wesley Clark

Serbian "ethnic cleansing" (a euphemistic term for genocide) which was then going on in Kosovo. It was Clarks belief that it was i...

Fraudulent Accounting Procedures at WorldCom and Enron

as CEO and Chairman on February 4, 2002; Jeffrey K. Skilling, former CEO and Director; Andrew S. Fastow, former chief financial of...

Lance Armstrong and the notion 'Its Not About the Bike'

on Armstrongs body but the real heroics are attributable to the man and to the body itself! Armstrong was diagnosed with te...

Clinical or Counseling Practice Personality Assessments

can be understood through as an extension of Kellys Personal Construct Theory, which suggests that individuals sometimes demonstra...

Accounting at Three Companies

seen with the balance sheets. The figures for former years of 2002 and 2001 in the Microsoft figures may vary from the last report...

Krispy Kreme and Ethical Accounting Practices

and give an appearance of a sounder and more asset backed company. The first is with the repurchase of some franchises, for a pric...

Employee Stock Option Schemes in Accounting

of other standards I the past (Anonymous, 2005). In order to assess the impact of this and why the new standard is seen in such a ...

Gospel Accounts of Jesus's Anointing

a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me" (Matt. 26:10-11). Jesus goes on ...

Life Effects of Insulin

would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...

U.S. Early Retirement

is always Social Security (2004). Of course, that system is in crisis and that must be considered. There is no guarantee that Soc...

Cuban Missile Crisis and Conflict Between Canada and the United States

course, had definitely heard of us. Unfortunately, a significant portion of their actions during this crisis was structured aroun...

Article Analysis: Financial and Accounting Topics from the Wall Street Journal

This 12-page paper analyzes financial and accounting articles from the Wall Street Journal. There are 5 sources listed in the bibl...

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...

Pericles' Funeral Oration as Reported by Thucydides

way of life is unique when compared to that of our neighbors. Only in Athens can a citizen, no matter what class or social distinc...

Cost Distribution and Production Costs

the determination of the overheads in advance of the period we are budgeting for. Once we have the actual rates needs then we will...

Cycles in Accounting

The second step is to post the transactions to the General Ledger (Mount San Jacinto College, 2003). The General Ledger is a compa...

'Conservative' Accounting Approach of Microsoft

to accounting, much of which is exemplified in the use of the cookie jar. Microsofts Approach Microsoft has taken pride in ...

Accounting Practice and the Use of Mathematics

can do on silicon. But that is not math. That is accounting. Real math is not crunching numbers but contemplating them and the mys...

Benefits of Process Based Accounting

process based accounting system at its plant in Plymouth, Minnesota (Pare, 1993). In order to implement this system, during the in...