SCHOOL LEAVING CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION – 2005 EXAMINER’S REPORT ACCOUNTING 1.0 INTRODUCTION This year’s paper examined the very basics of accounting such as the work covered at the FJC and FSLC levels. Some 4‚400 candidates sat for the paper‚ showing varying range of abilities and skills towards problem solving. It was disappointing to note that candidates were not able to handle some very basic concepts and calculations. Computations of income tax as per Form 5 and value
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weaknesses? Along with the statement of cash flows and income statement‚ the balance sheet is one of the three most important documents used by investors to understand the financial condition of a company. Structurally‚ the balance sheet is relatively simple in concept. Every company’s balance sheet is comprised of three elements: Assets: often defined as an economic resource which is owned by the corporation and is expected to provide future benefits to its operation. Accounting rules allow assets to
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various proposals raised by different managers of Dumbellow Ltd. The major issue addressed by these proposals is “how to deal with product Z which is currently resulting in losses and thus pulling down the net profit of the entire product line”. The financial controller proposed a termination of the production of the product while the marketing manager suggested a £1 per unit reduction in the price so as to increase the demand of the product. On the other hand‚ the managing director thought that a 10%
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Executive Summary GAAP‚ generally accepted accounting principles‚ are the rules for preparing the financial statements. There are specialized professionals FASB‚ SEC‚ AAA‚ FEI‚ IMA‚ AIMR and others for developing GAAP. There are 13 principles for preparing Financial Statement. Business Entity Principle requires business to be separated from owner of the business. Going Concern principles requires the business to assume that the business will for long time. Revenue Recognition Principle considers
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THE EFFECTS OF ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS ON FINANCIAL STATEMENT 5.1 ENTITY CONCEPT The first accounting concept is entity concept. These concept shows accounts are kept for entities and not the people who own or run the company. Even in proprietorships and partnerships‚ the accounts for the business must be kept separate from those of the owners. This is because what whatever amount the company owes to others is not the liabilities of the owners. The maximum amount that the owner is going to lose
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Perspectives on Accounting Education Volume 6‚ 2009‚ 83-96 A FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS PROJECT FOR INTRODUCTORY FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING Marilyn B. Misch Business Administration Division Pepperdine University Malibu‚ California USA Carolyn A. Galantine Business Administration Division Pepperdine University Malibu‚ California USA ABSTRACT This paper describes a financial statement analysis project useful in both preparerbased and user-based introductory courses in financial accounting. The project
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Accounting Basics: Introduction Accounting is a glorious but misunderstood field. The popular view is that it’s mostly mind-numbing number-crunching; it certainly has some of that‚ but it’s also a rich intellectual pursuit with an abundance of compelling and controversial issues. Accountants are often stereotyped as soulless drones laboring listlessly in the bowels of corporate bureaucracies. But many accountants will tell you that it’s people skills‚ not technical knowledge‚ that are crucial to
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Subject: Basic Accounting Batch: 2010-12 Foundation Program Faculty: S. Vijayakumar Bharathi Session Date | Session Details | Plan | Session Method | Session 1-3 | Pre-session preparation | Read from the book Accounting for Management | Syllabus discussion‚ PPTs / Videos on relevant topics | | Session | Introduce Accounting to the students | | | | PPT on basic concepts of Accounting. | | | | GAAP (concepts and conventions in accounting) | | | Post-session assignment
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INTRODUCTION The purpose of this assignment is to develop learners’ analytical skills in reviewing the adoption of accounting standards in financial statements. In this assignment we are required to assess the accounting treatment of borrowing costs as per FRS 123‚ by using the latest two years financial statements for two companies listed on the Maldives Stock exchange. Financial Reporting Standard 123 Borrowing Costs (FRS 123) consists of paragraphs 1 to 30. All of the paragraphs in FRS123 have
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analysis of increases and decreases in individual items in comparative financial statements is called a. vertical analysis b. solvency analysis c. profitability analysis d. horizontal analysis 2. Which of the following below generally is the most useful in analyzing companies of different sizes a. comparative statements b. common-sized financial statements c. price-level accounting d. audit report 3. The percent of fixed assets to total
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