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    Consignment Accounting

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    Chartered Accountancy CPT Course Lecture 12 – Consignment Accounting 1 Points to be kept in mind  Consignor remains the owner of goods even after sending to consignee.  Consignor does not send any Invoice rather a Performa invoice.  The Amount of Sales belongs to Consignor.  All the exp. are to be borne by Consignor. If borne by consignee‚ recoverable from consignor.  Consignee entitled to Commission.  Consignee entitled to de-credere commission if he is responsible for bad debts.  Consignee

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    A 60% approval rating for President Nixon ended abruptly on the night of June 17th‚ 1972. As a matter of fact‚ by the time the scandal was fully exposed to the public‚ his ratings had plummeted to 66% disapprove.The spiral of control that President Nixon lost over time started with his need for re-election in his second term. His actions against our constitution that were intended to ensure his reelection were committed in the most immoral ways and subsequently exposed to the public eye due to the

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    were not at fault for the issues in democracy. However‚ the government was responsible for the issues that occurred within the nation‚ especially the lack of trust between the citizens and their representatives. During times‚ such as the Watergate Scandal and the Civil Rights Movement‚ the lack of trust between the government and citizens was heightened to a level not seen before in American history‚ especially because much of the nation believed

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    Case 1-3 Politicalization of Accounting Standards A. These groups are put in place to help regulate the economy and to help form accounting principles that should be followed to promote and ensure accuracy and efficiency in companies across America. There was much policitalization which led to the abolishment of the APB and the formation of FASB. This was due to reasons such as the investment of tax credit in 1961 which made the APB responsible for deciding how it was to be reported. Due to the

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    issues of creative accounting 1.1 Introduction Creative accounting is also called “Earnings management” which is known as the manipulation of financial information. The term can be defined in many ways. Initially we define it as ’a process whereby accountants use their knowledge of accounting rules to manipulate the figures reported in the accounts of a business ’ (Naser‚ 1993‚ p.59). Creative accounting‚ at root‚ is the origin of numerous accounting frauds. Many accounting scandal cases (like the

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    Introduction The parade of corporate accounting scandals of the last decade‚ with lion’s share occurring in 2002‚ has developed deep antipathy and distrust towards corporations and their reporting practices‚ and casted doubts on the opinions of audit firms. As majority of these accounting frauds occurred in the US (See Appendix)‚ there was a widely-held view that rules-based accounting standards have allowed failure of large corporations like Enron and World Com‚ since US GAAP is perceived to

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    decades in the concept of “professionalism” as it related to the public accounting profession? If so‚ explain how you believe that the concept has changed or evolved over that time frame and identify the key factors responsible for any apparent changes. a. Do you believe that there has been a significant shift or evaluation over the past several decades in the concept of "professionalism" as it relates to public accounting discipline? If so‚ explain how you believe that concepts have changed

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    company address] Yi Theng Lim Organization Behavior & Design Case Ethical Analysis NKF Singapore: Anatomy of a Crisis 08 Fall Introduction In July 2005‚ Singapore was shaken by a scandal involving the National Kidney Foundation (NKF)‚ the nation’s largest charity. The scandal had surfaced many ethically controversial practices by NKF. In this paper‚ I will be focusing on the dilemmas surrounding NKF’S operations structure and evaluate them from various theoretical perspectives

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    Accounting Fraud at WorldCom Vanessa Gail Woods Strayer University Connor-Green/ACC 576 March 21‚ 2010 Accounting Fraud at WorldCom The break up of AT&T opened the long distance service market to small companies during the mid- to late-1980s and 1990s. Long Distance Discount Service (LDDS) opened in 1983 with moderate growth until its stock went public in 1989. CEO Bernie Ebbers decided to grow the organization through acquisitions (70 companies over the course of its lifetime)

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    Accounting 371 CA1-6 pg 26 Accounting quantifies operations‚ summarizing information‚ giving people the ability to see a situation from different perspectives. It ’s one thing to look at sales numbers for the year‚ but when you combine that with expenses‚ you can derive many issues‚ such as if the expenses are too high for sales or if payroll is unusually low‚ you can make certain decisions about those areas. Accounting numbers help in making sound decisions based on real data and not

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