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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History of Accounting The name that looms largest in early accounting history is Luca Pacioli‚ who in 1494 first described the system of double-entry bookkeeping used by Venetian merchants in his Summa de Arithmetica‚ Geometria‚ Proportioni et Proportionalita. Of course‚ businesses and governments had been recording business information long before the Venetians. But it was Pacioli who was the first to describe the system of debits and credits in journals and ledgers that is still the basis of today’s
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Bank Accounting is an application within the financial accounting module of SAP. It helps users in managing incoming and outgoing payments for cash balance controlling. It also further provides users with ease in managing accounting transactions with their respective banks. Master Data Master data is stored centrally in the bank directory. Bank Directories: these contain the bank master data for all the banks that the user approaches for business transactions. This means‚ data of the user’s own
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Accounting Project James Nevin Term 2 2012 Income‚ Expenses and Recording System Income: The Western Cape Soccer Club has multiple sources of income‚ the main ones being: * Membership Fees – The Club has 260 members who pay different annual prices. Juniors pay R100 per annum and adults pay R250 per annum. * Entrance Fees – The Club charges entrance fees for all new members. Juniors pay a fee of R200 and adults pay a fee of R400. * Tuckshop and Bar – The Club runs a tuckshop and
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How Accounting Information Systems has Improved Payroll Accounting Abstract Payroll accounting has been greatly improved with the invention of accounting information systems (AIS). The process of payroll is a complicated one that involves many steps. From updating the employee information to printing the checks‚ almost all areas have been improved with the help of AIS. There are many things to keep track of when processing payroll from beginning to end. Many larger companies have turned to outsourcing
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whether it is safe to invest in the company or not. The creditors of the company would want to know that whether the company would be able to pay its debts. Liquidity ratios would help these stakeholders determine the extent to which the company has the cash necessary to fund its operations. The employees and management would also be interested in the financial statements as their bonuses and salary increases also depend on how the company is doing. Their job security is also on stake if the company is
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Accounting Ethics Accounting Ethics‚ Second Edition. Ronald Duska‚ Brenda Shay Duska‚ and Julie Ragatz © 2011 John Wiley & Sons‚ Ltd. Published 2011 by John Wiley & Sons‚ Ltd. ISBN: 978-1-405-19613-0 Foundations of Business Ethics Series editors: W. Michael Hoffman and Robert E. Frederick Written by an assembly of the most distinguished figures in business ethics‚ the Foundations of Business Ethics series aims to explain and assess the fundamental issues that motivate interest in each of
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within maintaining the integrity of the profession; * Having in place a robust disciplinary system for those who fail to comply with this standards BY-Laws; * To enhance the status of members. Question 2: Briefly explain the following users of accounting information: Question 2(a): Shareholders (2marks) Answer 2(a): Any person‚ company‚ or other institution that owns at least one share in a company
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5 In most companies‚ direct labour is treated as a --------- cost. 1 product 18 2 period 3 fixed 4 sunk 6 Which of the following is a direct labour cost? 1 the wages of an operative paid on the basis of output achieved 2 a bonus paid to the stores clerk 3 the costs of the payroll accounting section 4
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perceived. In an accounting context‚ the sustainability reporting has evolved into a kind of tool for an organization to show and present its Corporation Social Responsibility. Moreover‚ it is also the expectation for the business organization to operate in a sustainable way. In the recent researches‚ there are sufficient evidences show how important the sustainable development to the community? How the conventional accounting evolve into two breeds of accounting‚ which are social accounting and environment
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