CAS 11-2 Amerbran Company Amerbran Company was a diversified company that sold various consumer products‚ including food‚ tobacco‚ distilled products‚ and personal care products and financial services. Financial statements for the company are shown in Exhibit 1. The 20X1 financial statements reflect the following transactions (dollar amounts are in thousands): 1. Depreciation and amortization expense was $115‚974. 2. Net income included a loss of $66‚046 resulting from the write-off
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Case the Mystery of the Disappearing Oil Mat Jon Weakness 1. Increases in costs of goods sold (85m) and inventories(18m) disproportionate with growth of sales 2. Current purchasing system contributed to redundant purchasing and high inventory holding costs 3. Siti Aminah (CFO) has no experience in system and technology 4. Internal control weaknesses: Purchasing system Current purchasing system contributed to redundant purchasing and high inventory holding costs and caused increases
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The role of accounting is to allow business owners to make informative decisions. The main objectives of accounting are to maintain a record of business transactions‚ calculate profit and loss and depiction of financial position. Recording business transactions accurately is essential in accounting. If proper and complete records are kept‚ it will make it easier to find and correct any errors made. Different officials can also use records for different decision-making purposes. A balance sheet
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” - Abraham Briloff (Professor Emeritus of CUNY Baruch) ACCOUNTING: Accounting is defined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) as "the art of recording‚ classifying‚ and summarizing in a significant manner and in terms of money‚ transactions and events which are‚ in part at least‚ of financial character‚ and interpreting the results thereof." ACCOUNTING AND ITS ROLE IN SOCIETY: Accounting plays a central role in society; hence‚ we need to consider it from
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INTRODUCTION Cost accounting is an important tool in the management of any business firm or organization‚ which includes those in the small scaled industry. In the cause of our research instrument indicated the maintenance of improper and inadequate records coupled with the fact that cost methods used‚ through sometimes effective‚ were unconventional. For a small scale business to approach profit maximization level‚ it must be effective in cost control procedures and appropriate books
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1. How does Smith describe the Buddha’s childhood? Buddha grew up as the heir to the throne of Nepal. When he was born‚ his father asked fortunetellers about the future of Buddha and they said that if he remained with the world‚ he would become the Universal King‚ otherwise he would become a world redeemer. In order to ensure Buddha would become the world conqueror‚ he was given three palaces with 40‚000 dancing girls and was shielded from the ugliness in the world so that he would remain connected
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year and 4th year‚ researcher chose them to become their respondents. The researcher‚ 1st year Accounting Student made a research about some factors of motivation and distraction that affect the performance of the students. Motivation and effort significantly influence individual performance in college as the review of prior research below indicates‚ few studies have investigated their impact on accounting student. The objective of the study is predicated on the assumption that identification of some
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History of Accounting The name that looms largest in early accounting history is Luca Pacioli‚ who in 1494 first described the system of double-entry bookkeeping used by Venetian merchants in his Summa de Arithmetica‚ Geometria‚ Proportioni et Proportionalita. Of course‚ businesses and governments had been recording business information long before the Venetians. But it was Pacioli who was the first to describe the system of debits and credits in journals and ledgers that is still the basis of today’s
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Objectives Accounting and the Business Environment 7111AFE Topic 1 1. Use accounting vocabulary. 2. Apply accounting concepts and principles to business situations. 3. Use the accounting equation to describe an organisation’s financial position. 4. Use the accounting equation to analyse business transactions. 5. Preparation of financial statements. 1-2 Objective 1 Accounting... is an information system that... Use accounting vocabulary measures business activities‚ processes information
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The lean accounting method was first developed and introduced by Toyota and other Japanese companies. Toyota executives claim that the famed Toyota Production System was inspired by what they learned during visits to the Ford Motor Company in the 1920s and developed by Toyota leaders such as Taiichi Ohno and consultant Shigeo Shingo after World War II. As pioneer American and European companies embraced lean manufacturing methods in the late 1980s‚ they discovered that lean thinking must be applied
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