Creative Accounting Creative accounting is a term that often implies illegal or fraudulent practices in the U.S. (Moneyterms‚ 2006). The objective of the following paragraphs is to explore some definitions of creative accounting from different perspectives‚ discuss some advantages and disadvantages of creative accounting‚ and explain a real life example of creative accounting. Through these paragraphs I hope to also touch upon some of the ethical issues involved in engaging in creative accounting practices
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------------------------------------------------- Topic : Companies across the world have started to adopt environmental accounting. What is environmental accounting? Should it be made mandatory? Does environmental accounting help the environment in any way? Give specific examples of how environmental accounting has benefited the environment. ------------------------------------------------- Introduction : The developing countries like India are facing the twin problem of protecting the
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Assets Office equipment Land Building Total Non-current Assets Total Assets Liabilities Current Liabilities Accounts payable Unsecured loan payable Total Current Liabilities 2 400 4 800 12 000 24 000 7 200 6 000 18 000 30 000 36 000 600 3 600 6 000 54 000 61 200 21 600 31 200 10 200 46 200 4 800 7 200 52 800 12 000 ---- ---- Total Liabilities 52 800 12 000 Net Assets Owner’s Equity 8 400 34 200 Capital Total Owners’ Equity
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Accounting Tutorial Question Topic 2 Week 5 Question 1 Encik Abbul has a sundry shop business registered under the name of Prudential Enterprises. The following is the summarised version of the bad debts‚ doubtful debts and the A/Receivables accounts of his business start in 2011. (The accounting period of the business is similar to the normal calendar year) Year | Account Receivables | Bad debts already written off during the year | Allowance for doubtful debts (percentage of outstanding
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Creative Accounting AC4001 12/13/2013 ‘Many investors now believe that companies can manipulate their accounts more or less at will‚ with the aim of producing profits that increase steadily over time. Provisions are bumped up in good years and later released‚ or the value of an acquisition is slashed; there are plenty of tricks.’ In your opinion is it possible to eliminate creative accounting? I do not think that creative accounting practice can be eliminated completely. However‚ I do
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Budget and Responsibility Accounting Budget Meaning Budget is a financial and/or quantitative statement‚ prepared and approved prior to a defined period of time‚ of the policy to be pursued during that period for the purpose of attaining a given objective. * CIMA Official Terminology It is a plan quantified in monetary terms‚ prepared and approved prior to a defined period of time‚ usually showing planned income to be generated and/or expenditure to be incurred during that period
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International Business College Taft Campus. This study limits its coverage on the first-year accounting students only. It ’s main purpose is to identify the feedback of the accountancy students towards their course. And this study focuses on the current first-year students of the present school year‚ 2012-2013. Chapter II Review of Related Literature Accounting Baysa and Lupisan (2011) defined accounting as a
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|Term-Concepts |Definition | |Purpose of Accounting |Communicating financial information to end users so they can make informed decisions. | |Accounting Entity |The financial affairs of the business are separate and distinct from the financial affairs of the owner. | |Monetary Concept |All transactions are recorded in
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used creative accounting to portray that the company’s profit were increasing when it fact it was making losses during the period 2000 – 2002 Creative accounting can be refers to accounting practices that seem to follow the applicable accounting standards but differ from the essence of those standards. It use the accounting methods to hide some elements of company’s financial dealings in order to make the company appears more successful that it is in reality. Creative accounting also can be describe
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assumption. 2. Sales revenue should be recognised when goods and services have been supplied; costs are incurred when goods and services have been received. Which accounting concept governs the above? a. The prudence concept b. The materiality concept c. The accruals concept * d. The dual accept concept 3. Which accounting concept requires that foreseen losses should be anticipated and taken into account immediately? a. The consistency concept b. The accruals concept c. The prudence
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