4. Assurance on CSR/Sustainability reporting a) In recent years there have been a growing number of organisations voluntarily reporting on their non-financial performance. KPMG’s International Survey of Corporate Responsibility (2011: 6) found that: ‘95% of the 250 largest companies in the world (G250 companies) now report on their corporate responsibility (CR) activities‚ 66% of non-reporters are based in the US.’ There has been a growing trend in companies (especially in Europe) wanting to
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Financial Reporting Google is a publicly traded company which means that customer and stakeholders have access to the company’s financial information. The balance sheet and income statements are the two financial statements which gives a brief summary of a company’s overall financial condition. The balance sheet focuses and report figures of assets‚ liabilities and owner’s equity of the business. Assets are anything that a business has with a value such as furniture‚ liabilities are monies owe to
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Ch 1. Accounting Information and Decision Making Financial accounting: Measurement and communication‚ measures business activities of a company & communicate to external parties Managerial Accounting: methods accountants use to provide info to managers (acct 210) Who needs to make decisions about companies? Investors Creditors-lend money Customers-big customers (i.e. Apple buys memory chips from Samsung) Suppliers-ability to pay Managers-production/expansion Employees-employment opportunities
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A Comprehensive Business Reporting Model Financial Reporting for Investors July 2007 CFA Institute Centre Comprehensive Business Reporting Model Staff Kurt Schacht‚ CFA Managing Director Rebecca McEnally‚ CFA Capital Markets Policy Group Georgene Palacky‚ CPA Director Financial Reporting Group Members of the Comprehensive Business Reporting Model Subcommittee and the Corporate Disclosure Policy Council Gerald I. White‚ CFA‚ Chair Grace & White Inc. New York‚ NY United States
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ACC-100 Chapter 3 External event: involves interactions between the entity and its environment. * Example: the payment of wages to an employee is an external event‚ hiring of a sales manager Internal event: occurs entirely within the entity. * The use of a piece of equipment Transaction: any event that is recognized in a set of financial statements (if an event is measurable and realized‚ then it is a transaction) * Typically include: * An external event that involves exchange
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ACC 291 Final Exam Copy this link to your browser to download: http://www.finalexamguide.com/ACC-291-Final-Exam-1-3.htm 1. On January 1‚ a machine with a useful life of five years and a residual value of $40‚000 was purchased for $120‚000. What is the depreciation expense for year 2 under the double-declining-balance method of depreciation? 2. As a recent graduate of State University you ’re aware that IFRS requires component depreciation for plant assets. A friend has asked you to succinctly
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Week Two Exercise Assignment Revenue and Expenses 1. Recognition of concepts. Jim Armstrong operates a small company that books entertainers for theaters‚ parties‚ conventions‚ and so forth. The company’s fiscal year ends on June 30. Consider the following items and classify each as either (1) prepaid expense‚ (2) unearned revenue‚ (3) accrued expense‚ (4) accrued revenue‚ or (5) none of the foregoing. a. Interest owed on the company’s bank loan‚ to be paid in early July Prepaid expense
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Financial Reporting Problem‚ Part I ACC/290 March 18‚ 2013 Tony Ames Financial Reporting Problem‚ Part I In today’s markets there are several factors that make up a public company and allow it to be desired by investors. * Total Current Assets: Previous Annual Reporting Period * * The total current assets at the end of the previous annual reporting period‚ December 31‚ 2011‚ was $22‚985‚000 in comparison to the most current year of 2012’s results of $22‚706‚000. Therefore
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of crimes and includes data on the circumstances of the crime‚ the victim‚ and the defendant. The current crime reporting system is faced with several difficulties as there is no instant means of reporting crime rather than telephone calls‚ messaging or perhaps face-to-face which is always cumbersome in a case the reporter might want to keep anonymity. The proposed crime reporting system is aimed to assist the Nigeria police in their bid to solve crimes with timely and useful information about
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archive file ACC 557 Entire Course consists of the next docs: ACC 557 Week 1 Discussion Questions.doc ACC 557 Week 1 Individual Assignment Ethics Case Study.doc ACC 557 Week 2 Discussion Questions.doc ACC 557 Week 2 Individual Assignment Procedures to collect accounting evidence.doc ACC 557 Week 3 Discussion Questions.doc ACC 557 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Ethical Challenges and Agency Issues.doc ACC 557 Week 4 Discussion Questions.doc ACC 557 Week 4 Individual
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