Accounting for Managers TOPIC A: AN INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING Investors – Individual and groups provide initial capital. Creditors – Company which loans money to another company (Suppliers/Bank). Managers – Oversee the day-to-day operations. What is accounting? * Process of Recognising‚ measuring‚ recording (also known as transactions)‚ disclosing and attesting to information. *Information – Decision Making (Value Creation)‚ Control (Monitoring). Process of Accounting: Transactions
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Amazon: From Book Seller to Service Provider 1. Amazon’s strategy is to maintain its role as an online retailer while diversifying its product and service line.[1] While many people still see Amazon only as an online book retailer‚ this is no longer true. Amazon is now best described as a technology retailer. Capitalizing on its large and reliable Internet infrastructure‚ Amazon Web Services now include the following: Simple Storage Service (S3)‚ Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)‚ SimpleDB‚ CloudFront
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between accrual-basis accounting and cash-basis accounting? The variation between accrual basis accounting and cash basis accounting‚ is how cash is documented. Cash basis is an accounting basis that is used when expenses and revenue are paid out or received. This is when the transaction will be recorded. In accrual-basis accounting‚ transactions are recorded when they actually happen. Payment does not need to be made for the transaction to be recognized in accrual-basis accounting unlike cash-basis
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opinion‚ why do accountants debit asset accounts to increase them but credit liability accounts to increase them? Why do accountants debit expenses to increase them but credit revenues to increase them? In my opinion the reason for this is that accounting equations must always balance and the two sides must always be equal. Each transaction has a dual
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this essay is to determine the vulnerability of computerised accounting information system to computer crime and the solutions to prevent such crime from occurring in organisations. Ever-Changing information technology has made computerised accounting processes easier. However‚ it has also created significant threats in relation to ensuring the security and reliability of computerised accounting information systems. Using an accounting software package such as MYOB can be vulnerable to frauds if
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ĐỀ THI KIỂM TRA GIỮA KỲ Môn học: KẾ TOÁN QUẢN TRỊ (Managerial Accounting) Lớp: KT302DV01‚ HK10.1 Thời lượng: 6 0 phút (Không kể thời gian phát đề) Không được tham khảo tài liệu‚ Chỉ được sử dụng từ điển Anh – Việt‚ không sử dụng Kim từ điển Sinh viên làm bài trên đề thi Đề thi gồm 07 trang Họ tên sinh viên: …………………………………………………. Chữ ký và họ tên cán bộ coi thi 1 Chữ ký và họ tên cán bộ coi thi 2 Đ iểm thi Bằng số Đ iểm thi b ằng chữ ………………………………………………… MSSV: ………………………………………
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Accounting Basics: Introduction Accounting is a glorious but misunderstood field. The popular view is that it’s mostly mind-numbing number-crunching; it certainly has some of that‚ but it’s also a rich intellectual pursuit with an abundance of compelling and controversial issues. Accountants are often stereotyped as soulless drones laboring listlessly in the bowels of corporate bureaucracies. But many accountants will tell you that it’s people skills‚ not technical knowledge‚ that are crucial to
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Question 1 The ethical guidelines which accountants are obliged to follow in the conduct of their work are made to combat criticism and gain credibility by preventing fraudulent accounting. Accountants ought to be able to maintain impartiality and independence to create a clear‚ credible and unbiased audit. Hence‚ the ethical principles are considered important. This is because the work of accountants requires a high level of ethics since the financial statements prepared and verified by auditors
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towards financial forecasts Barnea‚ A.; Ronen‚ J.; and Sadan‚ S. 1975. The implementation of accounting objectives: An application to extraordinary items Beidlerman‚ C. R. 1973. Income smoothing: The role of management. Accounting Review 48 (October): 653–67. Boot‚ A. W. A.‚ and Thakor‚ A. V. 1993. Security design. Journal of Finance 48 (September): 1349–78. Boot‚ A. W. A.‚ and Thakor‚ A. V. 1997. Financial system architecture. Review of Financial Studies 10 (Fall): 693–733. Boot‚ A. W. A.‚ and Thakor
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The Feasibility of Environmental Accounting Information System (EAIS) in Ethiopia Tibebe Sirak Tel: +251-911-372231‚ +251-111-224167 Email: tibebesirak@ymail.com; tibebe@rocketmail.com P.O. Box 28628 Addis Ababa‚ Ethiopia Abstract Environmental issues become the major concern of the world. Studies show that manufacturing firms are major pollutant of the environment in developing nations. Like in most African countries environmental situation in Ethiopia is insecure‚ given the low levels
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