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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BUSN1002 Financial Accounting Processes Semester 2‚ 2013 LECTURE OUTLINES 1 – 6 Topic Coordinator: Philip Palmer Room 3.70 Law and Commerce Building Email: philip.palmer@flinders.edu.au Ph: 8201 2013 FLINDERS UNIVERSITY FLINDERS BUSINESS SCHOOL BUSN1002 Financial Accounting Processes Philip Palmer Lecture Outline 1 Introduction to Financial Accounting Reading: Hoggett et al.‚ Chapters 1 and 2 1 Introduction to Accounting Accounting is an information system designed to
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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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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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International Business College Taft Campus. This study limits its coverage on the first-year accounting students only. It ’s main purpose is to identify the feedback of the accountancy students towards their course. And this study focuses on the current first-year students of the present school year‚ 2012-2013. Chapter II Review of Related Literature Accounting Baysa and Lupisan (2011) defined accounting as a
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Complete accounting cycle For the past several years‚ Abby Brown has operated a part-time consulting business from her home. As of June 1‚ 2012‚ Abby decided to move to rented quarters and to operate the business‚ which was to be known as Square One Consulting‚ on a full-time basis. Square One Consulting entered into the following transactions during June: June 1. The following assets were received from Abby Brown: cash‚ $30‚000; accounts receivable‚ $7‚500; supplies‚ $2‚000; and office equipment
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In our society today‚ computer technology plays an important role in many form of business‚ especially in the field of accounting. As technology advances‚ not only does the use of computers penetrates individual’s everyday life‚ it also helps to mange and improve many business operations from service‚ manufacturing to retail. Ken‚ an accounting graduate‚ works as an accounting clerk at Advance Manage‚ a service operation located in Markham‚ Ontario. The small business is in the form of a partnership
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profit. Income refers to the increase in economic benefit during the accounting period in the form of inflow or enhancement of assets or decrease of liabilities that result in increase in equity. There are two types of income. First‚ sales revenue refers to income earned in the course of business activity for example a coffee house selling coffees. Second‚ gain refers to income that does not arise from the
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used creative accounting to portray that the company’s profit were increasing when it fact it was making losses during the period 2000 – 2002 Creative accounting can be refers to accounting practices that seem to follow the applicable accounting standards but differ from the essence of those standards. It use the accounting methods to hide some elements of company’s financial dealings in order to make the company appears more successful that it is in reality. Creative accounting also can be describe
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