Enron Case study in OL1150 Unit 4 Accounting methods have changed over the last couple decades. Numerous Fortune 500 companies were concealing debt in an accounting method known as mark-to-market (Ferrell‚ O. C.‚ Hirt‚ G. A.‚ & Ferrell‚ L. 2005). Enron was one of several companies that was hiding their debt‚ while reporting annual earnings of $111 billion. Many Fortune 500 companies went under fire in the early 2000’s for their misleading accounting methods‚ leading investors to believe the company
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+0)26-4 Accounting Theory NEED FOR ACCOUNTING Business is one of the sources of earning income. Whenever a business is started‚ it requires investment of certain amount which is called as capital. With this amount of capital the businessman may deal either with trading business or manufacturing business. In a trading business‚ he will buy goods at a lesser price and sells the same to others at a higher price. In case of manufacturing business‚ he has to buy raw materials and incur other
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Question 1 Discuss the accounting principles and concepts that were violated in the case. Explain the appropriate accounting treatments that should be used. Accounting is a systematic recording of business transactions and statements relating to assets‚ liabilities and summarizes the financial events that occur in a business. There are certain accounting principles and concepts to preparing reports on financial statements. These accounting principles and concepts are usually referred to as
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9.5 Manager’s Information Advantage 9.5.1 Earnings Management 9.5.2 Controlling Earnings Management 9.6 Discussion and Summary 9.7 Agency Theory: A Bondholder-Manager Lending Contract 9.8 Implications of Agency Theory for Accounting 9.8.1 Is Two Better Than One? 9.8.2 Rigidity of Contracts 9.9 Reconciliation of Efficient Securities Market Theory with Economic Consequences 9.10 Conclusions on the Analysis of Conflict Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education Canada
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Accountancy AC5521 Cost and Management Accounting Semester B‚ 2012-2013 Instructor: Dr. Hao ZHANG Tel: Office: Email: Office Hours: Time Venue 3442-8546 G7752 haozhang@cityu.edu.hk Wed 3:00 pm to 6: pm Thursdays (9:00 am – 11:50 am) AC1 P4701 Course Aims This course aims to provide students with: 1. 2. 3. 4. an introduction to cost and management accounting for internal reporting and decision making purposes; familiarity with cost terminology‚ and management accounting reports; the ability to apply numerical
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Running head: CASE ANALYSIS OF THE ACCOUNTING FRAUD AT WORLDCOM Case Analysis of the Accounting Fraud at WorldCom Angela Crossley Troy University October 27‚ 2008 History The origin of WorldCom can be traced back to 1983. The CEO‚ Bernard J. Ebbers‚ of WorldCom had very interesting beginnings. He invested in Long Distance Discount Services (LLDS) with eight other investors‚ and believed that the telecommunications industry was a very good business venture. In the beginning
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Origins All types of businesses‚ whether service‚ manufacturing or trading‚ require cost accounting to track their activities.[1] Cost accounting has long been used to help managers understand the costs of running a business. Modern cost accounting originated during the industrial revolution‚ when the complexities of running a large scale business led to the development of systems for recording and tracking costs to help business owners and managers make decisions. In the early industrial age‚
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Activity Based Costing Introduction This term paper of advanced management accounting discusses the basic concepts of activity based costing. The major focus of this work is to examine activity based costing in small hospitality businesses in UK. For this purpose‚ information is extracted from various articles‚ journals and web to gain in depth insight of the cost accounting concept. In addition to this‚ it discusses the benefits and drawbacks of the activity based cost method. Discussion
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SYLLABUS FOR MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING – ACCT 5100/7100 PROFESSOR LINDA BAMBER Fall 2012 Date 8/14 Tue. Topic Introduction to Management Accounting and Professionalism Chapter and Reading Course Outline Syllabus eLC Student Orientation: http://elc.uga.edu/student_orientation /index.html Assignment Due Today 1) Hand in your ACCT 5100/7100 profile. 2) Form teams of four with no more than one MBA student per team (I will try to fill out teams of two or three). One team member should email
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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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