Accounting Regulation With the recent accounting discrepancies that have taken place in some of America’s largest and well known corporations greater importance is being placed on the creation and monitoring of financial reports. Some of these organizations which regulate how financial reports and compiled are private‚ given a charter by a federal agency‚ others were born from the creation of new laws and regulations‚ some are state agencies‚ and many more are private organizations made up of academics
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Financial Accounting (BEA 2001) Tutorials PROPERTY‚ PLANT & EQUIPMENT Question 1: Measurement at recognition; components; depreciation Olympic plc is a diversified industrial company with many different areas of operation. The following information relates to the company’s property‚ plant and equipment. The company has a 30 September year end. All the plant was purchased and brought into use on 1 October 20X1 at a cost of £800 000. The cost of testing the plant amounted to £45 000 and samples
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for you will depend upon your career goals. Earning one of the accounting-related professional certifications is no easy task; however‚ earning and maintaining your certification can increase your chances for advancement and promotion‚ enhance your reputation among colleagues and within the profession‚ and result in salaries that are higher than your non-certified peers as long as you remain ethical. The Profession of Accounting When most people go to college they think of what major would
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HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING Primitive Accounting Traced as far as 8500 BC in Mesopotamia through the use of clay like: a. Record for paid wages b. Record purposes‚ as general Pyramids in Egypt‚ for the costs of structures Other places like China‚ Babylon‚ and Greece Middle Ages More formal account-keeping methods were developed by the merchants and banks. Double-entry records first appeared in Genoa in 1340 AD. First accounting book was written by Contrugli in Naples Summa de Arithmetica
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ACCOUNTING CLERK Wes Ruiz Ms. Cline Accounting 20 October 2011 In this paper I will be telling you about a job of an accounting clerk. The scope of an accounting clerk’s job duties often depends upon the size of the company or organization that he works for. For example‚ small businesses tend to hire “general bookkeepers” to handle all of the financial transactions and record keeping requirements of the business. Essentially‚ a bookkeeper
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Creative Accounting Creative accounting is a term that often implies illegal or fraudulent practices in the U.S. (Moneyterms‚ 2006). The objective of the following paragraphs is to explore some definitions of creative accounting from different perspectives‚ discuss some advantages and disadvantages of creative accounting‚ and explain a real life example of creative accounting. Through these paragraphs I hope to also touch upon some of the ethical issues involved in engaging in creative accounting practices
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------------------------------------------------- Topic : Companies across the world have started to adopt environmental accounting. What is environmental accounting? Should it be made mandatory? Does environmental accounting help the environment in any way? Give specific examples of how environmental accounting has benefited the environment. ------------------------------------------------- Introduction : The developing countries like India are facing the twin problem of protecting the
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TAKE HOME EXAMINATION MAY 2012 SEMESTER SUBJECT CODE : MAF656 SUBJECT TITLE : ADVANCED ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE LEVEL : DOCTOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION STUDENT’S NAME : SARAVANAN KOLAN DE VELU MATRIC NO. : M70205120002 PROGRAMME : DBA ACADEMIC FACILITATOR : PROF. DR.MOHAMMAD ADAM BAKAR LEARNING CENTRE : KL-HEAD OFFICE INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS 1) This assignment consists of THREE (3) questions. Answer ALL questions. 2) Plagiarism in
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depositors. Begin with accounting principles from Islamic perspective‚ this paper discusses the concept of accrual and cash basis and scholar opinion about this basis of accounting. Both accrual and cash basis implementation with its advantages and disadvantages also discuss in this paper. An alternative method to improve fair and just between bank and customer is proposed. 1. Introduction The growth of Islamic financial market and institution create the need for different accounting requirement. This
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Creative Accounting AC4001 12/13/2013 ‘Many investors now believe that companies can manipulate their accounts more or less at will‚ with the aim of producing profits that increase steadily over time. Provisions are bumped up in good years and later released‚ or the value of an acquisition is slashed; there are plenty of tricks.’ In your opinion is it possible to eliminate creative accounting? I do not think that creative accounting practice can be eliminated completely. However‚ I do
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