Small Business Idea Starting a business can be one of the most challenging endeavors to engage. Indentifying a need or want in a given industry‚ completing the pre-business research‚ demographics and analyses‚ then determining financial feasibility is only the tip of the iceberg. Choosing the right business structure will contribute to its long term success. Therefore‚ when selecting the appropriate business type‚ one must carefully consider the following: taxes‚ liability‚ administrative burdens
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Running Head: Four Types of Business Brandon Mckinley University of Phoenix ACC/561 Introduction An Entrepreneur is a person who forms and operates a business. Entrepreneurs form and start companies by themselves‚ or with partners. Most of the time companies which are started by entrepreneurs are relatively small in size‚ but some grow into huge corporations‚ such as Microsoft which is owned by Bill Gates. Entrepreneurs have four different options when starting a business‚ which include
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Financial Statement Differentiation Paper Amanda Berens Accounting - ACC/561 March 31‚ 2012 Guyton Gagliardi Financial Statement Differentiation Paper The first issue to discuss is the four different types of financial statements and the use of each that a business will use. The second issue to discuss is what financial statements that an investor will review. The third issue to discuss is what financial statements a creditor will review. The fourth will be what financial statements
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Absorption Based Costing – Managerial Analysis Liliana Evans ACC 561 11 May 2014 Professor Jill Datema Absorption Based Costing – Managerial Analysis Absorption based costing method (ABC) is used by companies to identify activities that it performs and then assigns direct and indirect costs to the product’s overall pricing. This method helps businesses determine the cost drivers that influence the product’s sales price by increase or decrease. ABC uses cost drivers‚ such
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Financial Statement Differentiation Paper Jasmine Unger ACC/561 April 8‚ 2013 Professor Timothy Jared Financial Statement Differentiation Paper Financial statements provide documentation of a company’s financial history for a set timeframe. One of the financial statement used by investors‚ creditors‚ and mangers is the balance sheet. The second statement used by accountant’s income statement‚ which is also important to shareholders. The third statement is the retained earnings statement‚
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Article Review LAW/421 October 8‚ 2012 Thomas Glenz Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Article Review The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was a daring attempt to legislate morality with the intentions of restoring integrity with the public in financial markets. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is a direct result from corporate scandals like WorldCom‚ Enron‚ Adelphia‚ and Tyco‚ which succeeded in the collapse of these major corporation and ruined people’s lives. The mistreatment of employees
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Ethical Behavior Hilda Hoyt XACC/291 April 23‚ 2015 Dr. Johnny Hamblin Ethical Behavior The question asked‚ did the Sarbanes-Oxley Act make any difference and why or why not do I think this way. This Act made a big difference in the ethical behavior of companies. In the past some companies felt that they could take any liberty and show it in any way they wanted on their financial statements. For example‚ they need another tax break‚ so they would get an upper management a new car‚ when they had
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Starbucks Corporate Analysis Team C ACC/ 561 June 7‚ 2014 Mr. Smith Starbucks Corporate Analysis Starbucks is one of America ’s true success stories and a wonder of today ’s corporate world. A brand known throughout the world‚ Starbucks is a beacon for coffee lovers everywhere. The coffee house phenomenon that started as a dream to come up with the best coffees‚ best customer service and best coffee experience any coffee lover would appreciate. Starbucks started as a coffee roasting company
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1- public accounting firm is a firm that registered by the public accounting oversight board so it provides accounting service to public company. Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 contains provision preventing any company which is not registered with the board from‚ furnishing‚ participating in an audit of a public company or preparing. the different categories of public accounting firm are as follow : (Local Regional National Big 4 Alternative Practice Structures) Also there are different
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that could be discussed and cases whose precedent we could draw from for the purpose of properly elucidating the points of the assigned topic in reference to John R. Boatright’s “Individual Responsibility in the American Corporate System: Does Sarbanes-Oxley Strike the Right Balance?” assumption that the primary responsibility of corporate responsibility legislation is deterrence I’ve chosen to expand upon Chapter 3‚ Case 3‚ Exposing Workers to Plutonium and Chapter 6‚ Case 4‚ Predatory Lending at
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