By 2010‚ foreign companies will be able to file on U.S. Stock Exchanges using IFRS standards. With that in mind‚ what are some of the challenges facing the accounting profession‚ and how do you see them affecting you in the future? Provide specific details to support your opinion in your response. Answer: The accounting field has standards in place that are used to report financial information of companies so that one can get a clear understanding of the company’s financial standing
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CheckPoint Ethics in the Accounting Profession Dawn Carrera ACC/260 March 15‚ 2013 Peggy January Checkpoint Ethics in the Accounting Profession 13. Is a professional accountant a businessperson pursuing profit or a fiduciary that is to act in the public interest? This is a hard one to answer. Many accountants start off looking to make a living. The question is where do they want to go and what they see themselves doing. An accountant main goal is to a fiduciary that is to act in the
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Dawn Howarth ACC122 Managerial Accounting Career Paper Baker College What is Managerial Accounting Managerial accounting is the process of identifying‚ recording‚ analyzing and finally presenting the financial data which is used by the management and business owners for the purposes of command and for decision making. The difference between financial accounting and management accounting Financial accounting is reported publicly while management accounting is used by the company or organization
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Risk Threats And Vulnerabilities Marisel Hernandez Professor Julian Slaughter Foundations of Cyber Security July 6‚ 2015 Assessing risk‚ threats‚ and vulnerabilities Focus on the problem as soon as it occurs The severity of the companies security impact due to the data breach Investigation on the severity of incident and its damages Actions taken towards this threat Insights of similar incident Requirement policies Identifying reports Actions that need to be taken Outcomes and results
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How IS Has Affected the Accounting Profession Sarah Ralston Empire State College Author Note This Paper was prepared for Management Information Systems SMT 273754 taught by Professor Catherine White. Abstract This research paper will show the impact of information technology and information systems on the accounting profession. It will focus on internal and external auditing practices as well
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USDA =a United States Department of Agriculture Rural BusinessCgccyE&ive FIBS Research Report 154 Analysis of Financial Statements: Local Farm Supply‚ Marketing Cooperatives This report analyzes the balance sheets and income statements of local farm supply and marketing cooperatives‚ comparing 1995 and 1994 and trends over the past 10 years. The data in this report represent four cooperative sizes and types. Common size income statements and balance sheets are used to compare different
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Nature of Auditing and the Public Accounting Profession 1. Auditing neither creates goods nor adds utility to existing goods and therefore does not add value to business. Auditing exists only because it has been legally mandated. Auditing exists because it is needed by the company. It is beneficial to users who need assurance if their financial statements reflect economic conditions that occurred in a period. Without reliable information‚ companies might make less effective decisions which
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today’s world businesses and firms are required to uphold high levels of ethical behaviors for them to run successfully. There have been an overwhelming increased number of unethical behaviors in the accounting environment where a lot of accounting environment present accountants with many accounting dilemmas. Accountants handling any financial information such as companies financial statement must be operate out rightly in an ethical manner because such information is critical to a company’s well
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(Organizations associated with the public accounting profession) Several private and public sector organizations are associated with the profession. Listed below are activities pertaining to these organizations. 1. License individuals to practice as CPAs. State Boards of Accountancy 2. Promulgate GAAP. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)‚ American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)‚ Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) & Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB). There
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