ACCT301 Week 2 Homework 1. In two to three paragraphs‚ describe the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and why it is important to the accounting profession. (15 points) Sarbanes-Oxley Act was created in order to ensure that controls were implemented and monitored by the regulating authority. Congress wanted to make sure that there was a specific standard and guideline for companies to follow in order to prevent fraud at such a large scale. When followed correctly there are controls set in place that are internal
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Patrick Treadwell Acct 301 Project 4 Case 9-1 Hudson has been dealing with substantial warehouse costs. Hudson should account for these warehouse costs related to inventories by removing them from the cost of inventories. We learn that certain criteria need to be met in order to establish this which includes: cost incurred to bring inventory in a location to sale (Spiceland). Hudson Company uses the lower-of-the-cost-or-market method for the reason that is allows you not to place greater value
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Test 1 Chapters 1-4 Student: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. A cause-and-effect relationship is implicit in the: A. Realization principle. B. Historical cost principle. C. Matching principle. D. Going concern assumption. 2. Accounting standard setting has been characterized as: A. A political process. B. Using the scientific method. C. Pure deductive reasoning. D. Pure inductive reasoning. 3. The FASB ’s conceptual framework ’s qualitative
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University of Phoenix Material Nature‚ Nurture or an Interaction? For the following examples‚ decide whether the situation is a result of nature‚ nurture‚ or an interaction of the two. Explain your reasoning. Peter Peter‚ a 2-year-old only child‚ displays a bad temper by running to his room and slamming the door when he is angry. Is this nature‚ nurture‚ or an interaction? Nuture Justify your answer: The reason I have chosen Nurture because it shows how Peter has temper
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Homework Assignment: Week 1 Keller School of Management ACCT 573 Accounting Fraud Criminology and Ethics How can corporations ensure that their employees behave ethically? There are many things that a corporation can do to make sure that their associates are behaving in an ethic manner. Management must be ambitious and give enticements to work hard in the interests of stockholders and shareholders. Their behavior must also be analyzed to safeguard they do
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E6-5 (Computation of Present Value) Using the appropriate interest table‚ compute the present values of the periodic amounts‚ shown on page 344‚ due at the end of the designated periods. (a) $50‚000 receivable at the end of each period for 8 periods compounded at 12%. 50‚000* 4.9676= $248‚380 (b) $50‚000 payments to be made at the end of each period for 16 periods at 9%. 50‚000* 8.3126= $415‚630 (c) $50‚000 payable at the end of the seventh‚ eighth‚ ninth‚ and tenth periods at 12%. 50‚000*
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E12-1 (Classification Issues—Intangibles) Presented below is a list of items that could be included in the intangible assets section of the balance sheet. 1. Investment in a subsidiary company. 2. Timberland. 3. Cost of engineering activity required to advance the design of a product to the manufacturing stage. 4. Lease prepayment (6 months’ rent paid in advance). 5. Cost of equipment obtained. 6. Cost of searching for applications of new research findings. 7. Costs incurred in the formation
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Chapter 12 Homework Questions Q1. What are the two main characteristics of intangible assets? The two main characteristics of intangible assets are: (a) they lack physical substance. (b) they are not a financial instrument. Q4. Why does the accounting profession make a distinction between internally created intangibles and purchased intangibles? When intangibles are created internally‚ it is often difficult to determine the validity of any future service potential. To permit
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Course Project Title: Balance Sheet and Single-Step Income Statement Objective To prepare a comprehensive balance sheet and Single-Step Income Statement presented in good form and derived from a list of various accounts. The amounts relative to each account will be given and the student will learn to determine whether an account is a balance sheet account or a temporary account that belongs to the income statement. The accounts will be comprised of all the various subgroupings in the balance
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Michael Packer MIS 589 Week 4 iLab Introduction: A small company has decided to expand to a second floor. The company has a star topology network consisting of 30 computers on the first floor and wants to add a similar star topology network on the second floor with 15 computers to start‚ but would like to explore further expansion. To ensure that the current network can handle the addition of the computer a series of tests was run to determine whether the current backbone and infrastructure can handle
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