Running head: ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES Generally Accepted Accounting Principles P G HCS 571 June 5‚ 2013 Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)‚ are standards and guidelines for financial accounting‚ and reporting‚ (Office of Financial Management‚ 2012). There are guidelines in effect for most organizations; GAAP ensures that the finances of an organization are correct. According to Cleverly‚ Song‚ and Cleverly (2011)‚ GAAP describes the “body
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Introduction By June 2002‚ it had become evident to the SEC that WorldCom had engaged in a significant corporate accounting fraud scheme which had overstated pretax income by about $7 billion since 1999. At the time‚ this was the largest deliberate misstatement in US corporate history. Although there are many interesting elements and players involved with this incident‚ for the purpose of this case study I will focus on the role played by Betty Vinson‚ the Director of Management Reporting and
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SUBJECT: Accounting fraud at WorldCom Problem Statement WorldCom penetrated the largest accounting fraud in U.S history by overstating its tax income between 1999 and 2002. The main players in WorldCom’s accounting fraud included CFO Scott Sullivan‚ the General Accounting and Internal Audit departments‚ external auditor Arthur Andersen‚ and the board of directors. While individuals did have their own sins‚ employees cowardice and self-interested‚ the board passive and ineffective‚ external auditors
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Q & T Explain what debit and credit mean. T For each of the following transactions of Dennen‚ Inc.‚ for the month of January 2015‚ indicate the accounts‚ amounts‚ and direction of the effects on the accounting equation. A sample is provided. a. (Sample) Borrowed $30‚000 from a local bank b. Lent $10‚000 to an affiliate; accepted a note due in one year. c. Sold 100 additional shares of stock with a par value of $.10 per share to investors for $500 cash. d. Purchased $15‚000 of equipment‚ paying $5000
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112: PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING 1 ACCOUNTING THEORY NOTES (a) International Accounting Standards and International Financial Reporting Standards. The foreword to accounting standards defines Accounting Standards as Authoritative statements of how particular types of transaction and other events should be reflected in financial statements. Accounting Standards are developed to achieve comparability of financial information between and among different organizations. International Accounting Standards
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Graduate School 6-1-2008 Detecting financial statement fraud: Three essays on fraud predictors‚ multi-classifier combination and fraud detection using data mining Johan L. Perols University of South Florida Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd Part of the American Studies Commons Scholar Commons Citation Perols‚ Johan L.‚ "Detecting financial statement fraud: Three essays on fraud predictors‚ multi-classifier combination and fraud detection using data mining" (2008)
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define accounting. What are the three main characteristics of accounting? Is accounting static or dynamic? Accounting collects‚ analyzes‚ measures and records financial information about an organization and reports that information to stakeholders and decision makers. Accounting has 3 essential characteristics. Accounting is the (1) identification‚ measurement‚ and communication of financial information about economic entities to interested persons. Like social sciences‚ accounting is largely
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Practice & Theory Vol. 30‚ No. 2 May 2011 pp. 19–50 American Accounting Association DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-50009 Financial Statement Fraud Detection: An Analysis of Statistical and Machine Learning Algorithms Johan Perols SUMMARY: This study compares the performance of six popular statistical and machine learning models in detecting financial statement fraud under different assumptions of misclassification costs and ratios of fraud firms to nonfraud firms. The results show‚ somewhat surprisingly
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PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING(POA)/ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS(AFM) Basic Accounting Concepts & Terminologies ACCOUNTING- DEFINITION Accounting means the various technical activities performed by accountants‚ including financial accounting‚ bookkeeping and management accounting. Accounting is considered to be as old as money. However in 1494 Lucas Fra Pacoili‚ an Italian Merchant is universally regarded as the father of modern system of accounting or double entry system of accounting. Accounting has
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– Short-term Financial Management Term Project Financial Fraud in Canada [pic] Analysis presented to Ms. Julie Slater by Anouck Cinq-Mars (9197710) Anthony Liscio (9097856) Angelo Vaccaro (9356290) Joe Vincelli (9234403) Kyle Zarmair (9055177) John Molson School of Business April 4th 2011 Table of Contents Evolution of financial fraud in Canada…………………………………………...……4 Current types of fraud Canadian financial institutions A) Internal fraud…………………………………………………………………………
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