improvement in aspect to business efficiency‚ reputation risk management ‚ stakeholder management other social and economic part of the business by disclosing the status of the business in the eyes of society and its stakeholders. Reporting non financial Corporate activities provide a way to communicate and deal with social issues and help to protect a continuing good relationship with company’s stakeholders. Organisation that are performing properly in the market and society may face less problems
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Managerial Accounting What Does Managerial Accounting Mean? - The process of identifying‚ measuring‚ analyzing‚ interpreting‚ and communicating information for the pursuit of an organization’s goals. This is also known as "cost accounting." - Managerial accounting is used primarily by those within a company or organization. Reports can be generated for any period of time such as daily‚ weekly or monthly. Reports are considered to be "future looking" and have forecasting value to those within
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Question 1 Suppose Nike‚ Inc. reported the following plant assets and intangible assets for the year ended May 31‚ 2014 (in millions): other plant assets $965.8; land $221.6; patents and trademarks (at cost) $515.1; machinery and equipment $2‚094.3; buildings $974; goodwill (at cost) $193.5; accumulated amortization $47.7; and accumulated depreciation $2‚298. Prepare a partial balance sheet for Nike for these items. (List Property‚ Plant and Equipment in order of Land‚ Buildings and Equipment
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Ethical Dimensions of Financial Accounting with Respect to the Keeping of Two Sets of Records. Ateneo Graduate School of Business Managerial Accounting Assignment 1 Submitted to: TSMANACC By AR2012 Financial accounting serves to provide useful financial information to help stakeholders make economic decisions through financial reports. There are various stakeholders that use financial reports to promote their varying interests. Among the various stakeholders with varying
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Eighth Edition Fundamental Financial Accounting Concepts Thomas P. Edmonds University of Alabama–Birmingham Frances M. McNair Mississippi State University Philip R. Olds Virginia Commonwealth University Edward E. Milam Mississippi State University (Contributing Author) FUNDAMENTAL FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS Published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin‚ a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc.‚ 1221 Avenue of the Americas‚ New York‚ NY‚ 10020. Copyright © 2013‚ 2011‚ 2008‚ 2006
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differences in financial and managerial accounting‚ the first differences has to do with the primary users of the reports; in financial accounting the reports are used by external users such as stockholders‚ creditors and regulators. On the other hand managerial accounting reports are used by internal users and include officers and managers. In addition the type and the frequency of the reports differ; financial accounting have financial statements and quarterly and annually are for general purposes while
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national accounting standards in retail industry Evaluating International Company under Abstract This paper analyses the international firms under the national accounting standard in retail industry. The study applies two typically firms which are Woolworths from Australia and Walmart from the United States and compare the two firms in 4 perspectives. Firstly‚ the different in recognition of intangible assets‚ revenue‚ tax‚ inventory under IFRS (Aus) and U.S.GAAP. Secondly‚ describe
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Introduction Financial accounting is branch of accountancy that deals with the financial statements which helps in informing public as well other concerned people who are not involved in day to day working of a company‚ about its current financial performance. Different stages involved in financial accounting are governed by certain standards set by organisations such as The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). The standards made by IASB
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“internal consistency” of accounting standards is Any entity intends to create its own standard must in accordance with the existing system of standard 2. In order to achieve “internal consistency”‚ the necessary factors are as follow: a) Any entity intends to create its own standard must in accordance with the existing system of standard b) Developing standards are correspondence with the same conceptual framework. It is necessary to establish an accounting law or principle to regulate these
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ACCOUNTING 592 Financial Accounting & Reporting Seminar Spring 2010 Instructor: Office Hours (subject to adjustment): Teresa Gordon Office Hours: W 8:30–11:00 AM Albertsons Bldg. 118 and T‚W‚Th 1:15 - 3:00 PM 885-8960 or by appointment E-mail: tgordon@uidaho.edu Course web page: http://www.cbe.uidaho.edu/Acct592 ------------------------------------------------- MASTER OF ACCOUNTANCY – LEARNING GOALS ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------
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