Accounting is often referred to as the language of business. It is a special-purpose tool for communication about the financial statements and the performance of a company. This can happen through written‚ natural language by selecting words from a standard vocabulary combining them in meaningful ways. These words are then organised into financial reports according to relatively flexible rules of presentation. Accounting dates back to 1494 when Luca Pacioli published a book called Summa de Arithmetic
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Case 3-6 Accounting Standards A. Given the income statement effects of LIFO versus FIFO‚ how will the balance sheet inventory amounts differ between General Motors and Ford versus Honda and Daimler-Benz? In other words‚ will inventory be reported amounts representing recent costs or older historical costs? In your opinion‚ which balance sheet amounts would be more useful to financial statement users in making decisions to buy or sell shares of a company’s stock? Inventory is an asset that
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A. What is the difference between accrual-basis accounting and cash-basis accounting? The difference between the two types of accounting is when revenues and expenses are recorded. In cash basis accounting revenues are recorded when cash is actually received and expenses are recorded when the expenses are actually paid. B. Why would politicians prefer the cash basis over the accrual basis? The accrual basis system deals with deprecation of the value of equipment‚ land and such. Politicians would
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such as General Motor? Visit the company’s South African website at http://www.gmsa.co.za and use the information obtainable from it to formulate your answer. At the business unit level the strategic issues of General Motors are both practical co-ordination of operating units and about developing and sustaining a competitive advantage for the cars and industry that they provide. The marketing manager’s role is to formulate and implement strategies that deal with the positioning: General Motors has
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Economic Principle | Marketing Principle | Form Utility | | | | | | | | | | Utility is a term used by economists to describe the measurement of "useful-ness" that a consumer obtains from any good. Utility may measure how much one enjoys a movie‚ or the sense of security one gets from buying a deadbolt. The utility of any object or circumstance can be considered. Some examples include the utility from eating an apple‚ from living in a certain house‚ from voting for a specific candidate
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PRODUCTIVITY CONCEPTS AND MEASURES Productivity is an overall measure of the ability to produce a good or service. More specifically‚ productivity is the measure of how specified resources are managed to accomplish timely objectives as stated in terms of quantity and quality. Productivity may also be defined as an index that measures output (goods and services) relative to the input (labor‚ materials‚ energy‚ etc.‚ used to produce the output). As such‚ it can be expressed as: Hence‚ there
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Table of Contents Case 1 Introduction Jill’s business is expanding while the up going GST prevent her from gaining more profits. The idea of replacing the labor with the help of new equipment will bring about an unprofitable break-even point. However Jill still insist on borrowing from bank to invest in the equipment regardless of the CVP analysis result‚ which raised some ethical issues. Analysis Question 1 Defining the stakeholders There are 5 major stakeholders arising
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of marriage may be outdated. But the social influence does not stand alone. These changes impact individuals and individuals make up a marriage. So what are some of the individual characteristics that may contribute to marriage being an outdated concept? First‚ as discussed above‚ it is the desire for individuation by those in a marriage. More and more often people want to have meaning in their life‚ beyond raising a family. We are culture whose individuals want to be different. Americans want to
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Making general comments on a student’s report card is a great way to inform their parents or guardians of how their child is performing in school. Unlike subject-specific comments‚ these report card general comments will be able to give parents of the students a greater understanding of their child’s school work habits. 1. Your child is working well with others and is also excelling in all study areas. 2. _____ is a dedicated worker‚ and is eager to learn new skills and techniques. 3. This student
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Bank Accounting Bank accounting consists in making written‚ permanent records of every transaction. Every penny must be accounted for. The statement of the bank‚ which we have just discussed‚ shows the general‚ or control‚ accounts of the bank‚ and the various books of the bank show the detail of these items. It would not be impossible‚ but it would be entirely impractical‚ to enter every figure directly on the statement of condition. We might imagine an enormous sheet on which the capital is entered
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