What is Accounting Ethics? The term accounting ethics are formed by the combination of two different words‚ namely accounting and ethics. Fortes‚ (2011) believes that ‘accounting is the collection‚ measurement‚ analysis and reporting of events in financial terms.’ While Karthik‚ (2010) believes that ‘ethics in its broader sense‚ deals with human conduct in relation to what is morally good and bad‚ right and wrong. It is the application of values to decision-making. These values include
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Case Study: Flower Pharmaceuticals A. The table below lists each category and states whether the cost is relevant‚ if it is an implicit or explicit cost‚ and if the cost has been properly calculated (note: company is currently operating at 65% capacity). Cost category | Relevant | Implicit/Explicit | Calculated correctly? | Fully allocated capital cost1 | N | Explicit | Y | Direct labor cost2 | Y | Explicit | Y | Materials Purchased3 | Y | Explicit | Y | Materials Inventoried4
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CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Financial Statements Study Objectives 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Describe the primary forms of business organization. Identify the users and uses of accounting information. Explain the three principal types of business activity. Describe the content and purpose of each of the financial statements. Explain the meaning of assets‚ liabilities‚ and stockholders’ equity‚ and state the basic accounting equation. Describe the components that supplement the financial statements in an
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Chapter 1 Question 1.1 When Mr. Drucker says‚ "Be data literate" he means that one should know how to use data effectively to the company ’s benefit. There are two challenges that one faces in attempting to be data literate. The first challenge is deciding what information to use‚ what is should be used for and how it should be used. The second challenge is how to test and put the data together with the existing information system to make them effective in a company ’s decision process
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Question #1. What is the primary cause of Calyx’s problem? What is the key actionable reason for the weak performance? The root cause of Calyx’s lower than expected financial performance is lack of proper segmentation. Currently they have divided their marketing between customers‚ recipients‚ and rented lists. They have bypassed value based segmentation and proceeded directly to demographic profile based segmentation by grouping prospects by purchase history and demographics. This categorization
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Founded in 1902 by James Cash Penney‚ J. C. Penney Corporation‚ Inc. (JCP) is a chain of mid-range department stores based in Plano Texas. JCP currently has 1‚060 department stores in 49 U.S. States in operation. JCP stores sell conventional merchandise as well as leased departments. Some examples of leased departments are Sephora‚ optical centers‚ portrait studios‚ and jewelry repair. Before 1966‚ most of its stores were located in downtown areas. As shopping malls became more popular in the latter
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Internal managerial accounting systems are used to provide great information so that the management team can make great decisions. According to http://smallbusiness.chron.com/objectives-internal-managerial-accounting-systems-20945.html manufacturing plants uses these systems to help in costing and managing the manufacturing process. The main objective is to make an internal managerial accounting system provide the information to the mangers so that they can make good sound decisions. The goal is
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Rationale#1: ¨ Flowers for Algernon ¨ After I finished ¨ Flowers for Algernon ¨‚ I thought that scientists‚ teachers and all people who had witnessed the progress of Charlie had an interesting apprenticeship about mentally handicapped adults. For that reason I thought that one of those persons could share his/her experience with Charlie during the months before and after the operation. One of the people who knew Charlie very well was his teacher-Miss Kinnian. As an experienced teacher of mentally
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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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CapitalBanc Corporation case 2.4 1- Management assertion is a set of information that the management provided it to the auditor‚ so the auditor will make sure there are no material misstatements. According to AU 326‚ paragraph 3‚ management assertions can be either explicit or implicit and can be classified according to three categories: Assertions about transactions‚ assertions about accounts balance‚ and assertions about presentation and disclosure. The auditor has to keep in mind that the
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