examine carefully some time tested procedures and the challenges the Revenue Authorities faces when mobilizing revenue. Various scholars and administrative practitioners have put out a lot of theories‚ concerns and views on GRA’s ability to mobilize revenue and how these monies mobilized are spent. Among the reasons assigned by such concerns and opinions is‚ the challenges of the GRA administration is to be blamed on inadequate revenue mobilization‚ due to lack of mission or comprehensive functional
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Costs and Revenues What is cost? If you go to a store and like an item and you want to buy it‚ which of the following questions would you ask: What’s the price of …..? 0R How much does …. cost? Examples of costs – set-up Examples of costs - running Fixed Costs 5000 What happened to the fixed costs if for some reason the company had technical problems and was unable to produce for 2 weeks? What happens if the landlord decided to raise the rent due to high property prices
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PRICE ELASTICITY OF DEMAND (PED) & REVENUE Price elasticity of demand (PED) is particularly important to businesses‚ because of its effect on their revenue (income). Consider the following examples: 1) Mrs Robinson wants to increase her business’s revenue‚ but can’t decide whether she should increase or lower her prices. She currently charges £1 per unit and sells 1‚000 units. She knows that the PED for her product is (-) 0.4. What will happen to sales‚ sales revenue and profit if she: a) raises the
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A: The primary criteria the auditor should use in determining revenue to be recognized are: (1): persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists. (2): Delivery has occurred or services have been rendered. (3): The seller’s price to the buyer is fixed or determinable. (4): Collectability is reasonably assured. The most basic principle for revenue recognition is revenue has been realized or realizable and earned. B: (1) a: Multiple deliverable. Does the software and one year internet service has
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The issue of revenue recognition practices is an area that has received a lot of attention from regulators. Whenever there is a report of financial restatements or negative earnings‚ regulators pay extra attention to review the financial statements in order to verify that that there are not any indications of financial fraud or that the organization overstepped their boundaries in the area of managed earnings. The reason that regulators have taken a special interest in financial accounting and potential
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The Accounting Cycle Five Cycles of Accounting The accounting cycle consists of five components: revenue‚ expenditures‚ financing‚ conversion‚ and fixed assets (Bagranoff‚ Simkin‚ & Strand‚ 2008). There are many business activities within a company that will take place in each of these cycles. The revenue cycle incorporates sales and cash receipts. Expenditures are the decrease in cash assets to acquire goods or services necessary to operate. The conversion cycle is a continual process that
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PATH-GOAL THEORY OF SALES LEADERSHIP Developed by Robert House‚ an Ohio State University graduate‚ in 1971.The theory states that effectiveness of a leader is influenced by the interaction and their behaviour of developing ways to guide‚ encourage and support their subordinates to choose the best path to reach their goals and the organisation’s goals as well. A leader must: • Clarify the path (for reaching the goal) so subordinates know which way to go. • Remove roadblocks that are stopping
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SHAREHOLDER WEALTH MAXIMISATION: SUMMARY ‘Business Finance’ assumes that the objective of a company is to maximise shareholder wealth. This means that companies should attempt to maximise the value of the shareholders’ investment in the company. This is achieved by maximising ‘Total Shareholder Returns’: dividends and share price appreciation. The most powerful basis for understanding and measuring shareholder wealth is the ‘economic valuation model’‚ under which the value of the shareholders’
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TEST OF CONTROLS – REVENUE TRANSACTIONS |Audit Objective |Audit procedure |Findings | |General | | | |Validity |Observe
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1. What are the revenue streams for TechMall? The revenues streams for TechMall include the following: a. Setup Fee Revenue b. Statement Fee Revenue c. Transaction Fee Revenue 2. What drives each of the revenue streams? a. Merchant setups drives the Setup Fee Revenue (Setup Fee Revenue=Merchant setups*$750); b. System merchants drives the Statement Fee Revenue (Statement Fee Revenue=System Merchants*$50); c. Total transactions‚ and Transaction Dollars drives the Transaction Fee
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