ASSIGNMENT (Stage 1) ACCT 11059 – Using Accounting For Decision Making Prepared By Lingdi Fu (s0210541) Lecturer & Tutor’s Name: Mitch Hsu Due Date: Saturday‚ 4th August 2012‚ 11:00 PM Step1 During carefully and thoughtfully read through the firm’s latest annual report. We can find the company is called GR Engineering Services. It is an Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) listed public company located in 183 Great Eastern Highway‚ Belmont. The principle activities of the company is providing
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Contents QUESTION ONE: Accounting Concepts and Conventions 1 a) Accounting Concepts 1 i) The going concern concept. 1 ii) The accruals concept (or matching concept) 1 iii) The entity concept: 3 iv) The money measurement concept: 3 v) The historical cost concept: 4 vi) The realization concept: 4 vii) Duality concept: 4 b) Accounting conventions 5 QUESTION TWO: Clashing accounting concepts and conventions that might bring about inconsistency in the accounting process 9 1. Clash between
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Journal of Accounting and Economics 35 (2003) 347–376 Management of the loss reserve accrual and the distribution of earnings in the property-casualty insurance industry$ William H. Beaver‚ Maureen F. McNichols‚ Karen K. Nelson* Department of Accounting‚ Graduate School of Business‚ Stanford University‚ Stanford‚ CA 94305‚ USA Received 2 March 2002; received in revised form 14 January 2003; accepted 27 January 2003 Abstract We document that property-casualty insurers with small positive earnings
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COMMON ACCOUNTING SYSTEM INTRODUCTION 1. Most of the State Cooperative Societies Acts have provisions regarding preparation and submission of financial statements such as Balance Sheet‚ Profit and Loss Account and Trading Account of PACS. However‚ the formats for financial statements of PACS have not been prescribed in many States. The existing formats have evolved over a period of time on the basis of instructions from the RCS‚ Director of Audit‚ etc.‚ There is no uniformity and transparency in
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Glasson Holding Ltd is a group of companies. Use the financial report to identify 3 companies in the group. The three companies are: Hallenstein Bros Limited Hallenstein Properties Limited Glassons Limited. Question 4: a) What is meant by the accounting term "consolidation"? Consolidation means combining two or more organizations fund‚ etc into one. b) Explain briefly how it will apply with the Hallenstein group of companies. This will apply with the Hallenstein group of companies because there
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Applicability of Accounting Standard (AS) 26‚ Intangible Assets‚ to intangible items 1. Accounting Standard (AS) 26‚ ‘Intangible Assets’‚ came into effect in respect of expenditure incurred on intangible items during accounting periods commencing on or after 1-4-2003 and is mandatory in nature from that date for the following: (i) Enterprises whose equity or debt securities are listed on a recognised stock exchange in India‚ and enterprises that are in the process of issuing equity or debt
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information for a statement of cash flows. Discuss special problems in preparing a statement of cash flows. Explain the use of a work sheet in preparing a statement of cash flows. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. Kieso‚ Intermediate Accounting‚ 13/e Instructor’s Manual (For Instructor Use Only) 23-1 CHAPTER REVIEW 1. Corporate investors and potential investors seek information about the financial position‚ results of operations‚ and cash flow. The required presentation of the
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Financial Accounting Summary Financial Accounting – Summary Notes Financial Accounting – Summary Notes 1 Financial Statement Basics 3 Understanding of the 3 financial statements – (balance sheet‚ income statement and statement of cash flows). What does each financial statement represent? 3 What is the structure of each statement? 3 What is the link between the three statements? 4 Understanding of the basic mechanics of financial accounting – (debits‚ credits‚ transaction journal entries‚ adjusting
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CHAPTER 1 Accounting and the Business Environment The chapter begins with an explanation of the term “accounting” and its importance to the business world. The text discusses how accounting information is needed by various decision makers—individuals‚ businesses‚ investors‚ creditors‚ government regulatory agencies‚ taxing authorities‚ non-profit organizations‚ and others. Financial and management accounting are compared. A brief history of accounting and the role of ethics in accounting are presented
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LIMITATIONS OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION The contact groups of decision-makers have widely different information needs about an enterprise. It must be stressed that accounting is only one of a number of sources on information available to decision-makers though they are sometimes tempted to place more faith in accounting than excepted. Other sources are just as important if not more important than the information provided by the financial statements. It is therefore essential to highlight the limitations
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