2102FE Financial Accounting ASSIGNMENT 2: Semester 2‚ 2013 DUE DATES: ASSIGNMENT: 22nd Oct 2013 (5.00pm) Tuesday‚ WEIGHTING: 15% WORD LENGTH: Maximum 1500 words. This assignment requires students to: (i) Prepare an essay relating to the Presentation of Financial Statements‚ (ii) Apply the relevant Accounting Standards and Corporate Legislation to a practical situation‚ and (iii) Analyze and discuss specific problems to associate with changes in accounting policies‚ and changes
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TITLE: INNOVATIVE WAYS OF ATTRACTING AND RETAINING GOOD QUALITY TENANTS. BACKGROUND The evolution of the commercial property market with trends like shorter lease lengths and competition for new tenants in the market for example‚ means that landlords can no longer rely on traditional ways of attracting and retaining tenants. According to Rasila‚ H. (2010)‚ “the competitive environment is changing and the real estate owners are seeking new ways of differentiating themselves from competitors”. Traditionally
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Contents Introduction 2 Quality 3 Competitiveness 3 Why Quality Influence Competitiveness 4 Cost of Poor Quality 5 How Poor Quality Affects Competitiveness 5 Causes of Poor Quality 6 Man 6 Material 6 Machine 6 Management 6 Method 6 Environment 6 Case on Quality Failure 7 Quality Guru: Joseph Juran 8 Quality Failure 8 Toyota’s Recalls 8 Toyota’s Response 9 Implementation of Juran’s Teaching in Toyota 9 Quality Improvement 9 Quality Control 10 Methods to
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Essay Question: How compatible is the concept of ‘work-life balance’ with the various ‘schools of management thought’? Can employee ‘work-life balance’ contribute to business sustainability? The concept of work-life balance ‘implies that work is different from life’ (Bell‚ R 2012). This essay will discuss the close link between the concept of work-life balance with the schools of management thought. This essay will begin by defining work-life balance. It will then explain the schools of management
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Tenochtitlan built the city and farmed on chinampas‚ small artificial islands they constructed from timbers‚ mud‚ and plants”(Frey 282). Lake Texcoco was filled with islands like these‚ which helped to support the Aztec capital. These islands were amazing achievements that allowed the Aztecs to build a huge and easily defensible capital in the center of a lake‚ and to make the most use of space(Frey 282). The fifth artifact is a large stone engraved with markings and designs. This is the sun stone‚ one of the
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TOTAL QUALITY (TQ)- is a people focused management systems that aims continually lower real cost. TQ is a total system approach (not a separate area or program) and an integral part of high level strategy ; it works horizontally QUALITY There is no exact concept of quality because people view quality subjectively and in relation to differing criteria based on their individual roles in the production-marketing value chain . The meaning of quality profession grows and matures. A study that asked
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Source A: Lenin was a great leader yet the most humble of men. For his achievements in the October revolution‚ in defending the foreign invaders and destroying the whites‚ in bringing peace and prosperity‚ we are forever in his debt. (A Russian view of Lenin written at the same time of his death in 1924) Was this an accurate assessment of Lenin and his achievements? One man with a gun can control 100 without one." Lenin‚ Vladimir Ilich 1917 Lenin was a man with principles that tried his best
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FASB Codification Case #1 Treasury Stock Paragraph 505-30-30-3 considers that “. If the purchase of treasury shares includes the receipt of stated or unstated rights‚ privileges‚ or agreements in addition to the capital stock‚ only the amount representing the fair value of the treasury shares at the date the major terms of the agreement to purchase the shares are reached shall be accounted for as the cost of the shares acquired”‚ and further the section mentions that “the price paid in excess
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Financial Reporting Quality and Investment Efficiency Rodrigo S. Verdi The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania 1303 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall Philadelphia‚ PA 19104 Email: rverdi@wharton.upenn.edu Phone: (215) 898-7783 Abstract This paper studies the relation between financial reporting quality and investment efficiency on a sample of 49‚543 firm-year observations between 1980 and 2003. Financial reporting quality has been posited to improve investment efficiency‚ but there has been
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Total Quality Management (TQM) is a management strategy that puts awareness of quality at the heart of all organizational processes. This is combined with a strong philosophy of lowering costs by eliminating waste and defects. So TQM can be described as a management system that aims at a continual increase in customer satisfaction while continually lowering real costs. The father of TQM was William Deming‚ an American college professor‚ author‚ and consultant. Deming played a major role in improving
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