Managerial and Financial Accounting ACCT/300: Principles of Accounting April 9‚ 2008 Managerial and Financial Accounting This paper will attempt to differentiate between managerial and financial accounting‚ the users of managerial and financial accounting and what type of business decisions would be made with the information. Managerial Accounting Managerial accounting provides accounting information to managers who are inside an organization and who directs and controls its operations
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Technologies Impact on Accounting Many advances in the accounting profession have been brought into the business world‚ starting when the Accounting Information Systems “AIS” was introduced. In today’s accounting profession it is difficult to imagine accountants balancing debits and credit on general ledgers‚ and posting transactions by hand. Everything can now be done with a computer‚ instead of by hand. The new technology of accounting is important‚ because it gives managers the opportunity
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1.0 Introduction According to The Environment Agency in the United Kingdom (2006)‚ Environmental Accounting can be defined as: “The collection‚ analysis and assessment of environmental and financial performance data obtained from business management information systems‚ environmental management and financial accounting systems. The taking of corrective management action to reduce environmental impacts and costs plus‚ where appropriate‚ the external reporting of the environmental and financial
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The 10 biggest frauds in recent U.S. History Enron: The energy company’s bankruptcy in 2001 after allegations of massive accounting fraud wiped out $78 billion in stock market value and led to the collapse of Arthur Andersen and the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. A class action settlement of $7.185 billion was the largest of all time. Former President Jeff Skilling is serving a 24 year sentence. Bernard Madoff: New York money manager Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme‚ the
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Ethics in Accounting • • • • • • • • Systematic body of theory and knowledge Extensive education process for its members Ideal of service to the community High degree of autonomy and independence Code of ethics for its members Distinctive ethos/culture Application of professional judgment Existence of a governing body Attributes of a profession • Service ideal • Market control view The service ideal vs. the market control view Accountants work in: • private companies
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standard-setting processes. The introduction of IFRS in Australia replaced the original accounting standards and brought several brand new standards. Until now‚ Australia was the first country with a tradition of its own standard-setting to implement international accounting standards for general purposes. Therefore‚ the adoption is unexpected and controversial. This essay mainly focuses on the negative side of this accounting standard conversion‚ which points out a number of potentially serious problems
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Management Accounting Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Traditional costing system and its limitations 3 3. Activity-Based Costing 4 4. Case Question 4 5. Analysis of the different result between traditional costing system and ABC system
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ACQUISITION Answers to Discussion Questions How Does a Company Really Decide which Investment Method to Apply? Students can come up with literally dozens of factors that should be considered by Pilgrim in making the decision as to the method of accounting for its subsidiary‚ Crestwood Corporation. The following is simply a partial list of possible points to consider. Use of the information. If Pilgrim does not monitor its own income levels closely‚ applying the equity method would seem to be a
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Journal of Business Finance & Accounting‚ 32(3) & (4)‚ April/May 2005‚ 0306-686X Discussion of Accounting‚ Valuation and Duration of Football Player Contracts JOHN FORKER* Investment by football clubs in player contracts provides a natural experiment to evaluate the mandated accounting requirement that purchased intangible assets must be capitalised (ASB‚ FRS 10‚ 1997b). The study is well grounded for three reasons. First‚ the availability of industry level transaction price data for transfer
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not allowed to do any accounting job as it was perceived to be a man’s job. Major accounting firms did not hire women at all. Now‚ before World War II women were only hired as “bookkeepers”. In 1940 there were 475685 women bookkeepers who represented 51.1% of the bookkeepers then employed (Business and Economics History‚ pg. 79). Out of these masses only 18265 women were later employed as accountants or auditors. Colleges in the past discouraged women from studying accounting courses (Lasseter‚ 1945)
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