Accounting for Managers TOPIC A: AN INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING Investors – Individual and groups provide initial capital. Creditors – Company which loans money to another company (Suppliers/Bank). Managers – Oversee the day-to-day operations. What is accounting? * Process of Recognising‚ measuring‚ recording (also known as transactions)‚ disclosing and attesting to information. *Information – Decision Making (Value Creation)‚ Control (Monitoring). Process of Accounting: Transactions
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Abstract The observance of international accounting standards is playing an increasingly significant role in dynamic regulatory developments and presents several challenges‚ which may necessitate a variety of procedural and technical data processing changes. Regulatory consolidation under the influence of international accounting standards The observance of international accounting standards is playing an increasingly significant role in dynamic regulatory developments. On the one hand‚ publicly
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managers need information as they strive to attain those goals. Managerial accounting is the process of identifying‚ measuring‚ analyzing‚ interpreting and communicating information in pursuit of an organization’s goals. It is an important part of any organization’s management information system. 1-1. The following changes should be in store for managerial accounting as a result of the explosion in e-commerce: a. Companies will have to invest in their security. Their private information could be at
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Section A Under Case Study (Newspaper) HB Global 1. Types of audit opinion Qualified opinion * A qualified opinion report can result from a limitation on the scope of the audit or failure to follow generally accepted accounting principles Adverse opinion * It is used only when the auditor believes that the overall financial statements are so materiality misstated or misleading that they do not present fairly the financial position or results of operations and cash flows in conforming
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Cost Accounting -- MIDTERM 1 1) Pointed Pencil company incurs the following costs in its manufacture of pencils. Classify each one of them according to one of the value chain functions: Functions: A) Research and Development B) Design of products‚ services‚ and processes. C) Production D) Marketing E) Distribution F) Customer Service G) Strategy and Administration ____ 1) Cost of wood used in manufacture of pencils. ____ 2) Cost of wood used in packing cartons to ship pencils. ____
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distribution network. The trademark “Pensonic” is registered in Malaysia and is targeted for eventual registration in over 20 countries. As an extension to the company’s structure‚ Pensonic has two subsidiary companies that respectively own “Cornell”‚ a brand from the USA and obtained the sole-distributorship in Malaysia for internationally renowned brands such as GE Appliances of the USA and Morphy Richards of the UK. Pensonic’s success had been reflected by the many awards achieved in its industry‚ such as
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The formation of the debit and credit concept In this simplified form we can begin to see what the mathematician and Father of Accounting (Luca Pacioli) saw in 1494 when he codified the double-entry bookkeeping system. It is his codified system that outlined the rules for applying debits and credits when recording the financial transactions of a business in the double-entry bookkeeping system. Now remember that Luca’s book in 1494 was written and published in Latin and at a time when the concept
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Withholding Statement Contact for more information: Phone: 1300 137 322 Within Australia +61 2 9290 5660 Overseas 1800 804 712 Toll free from Malaysia 800 6161 337 Toll free from Singapore Fax: +61 2 9262 4841 Email: memberbenefits@charteredaccountants.com.au This document has been supplied to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia as a free sample by Thomson Reuters and is extracted from its Model Contracts and Letters Kit‚ which is in CD
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the attributes of a high quality accounting standard? Globalization is a fact of life in today’s worldwide economy. They are many barriers to achieving a true global market; one of these barriers has to do with accounting standards or the presentation of accounting information. Various users have diverse needs for financial information. Companies in different parts of the world had their own methods in preparing their financial statements. Trying to compare the accounting rules of these different
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Accounting Basics: Introduction Accounting is a glorious but misunderstood field. The popular view is that it’s mostly mind-numbing number-crunching; it certainly has some of that‚ but it’s also a rich intellectual pursuit with an abundance of compelling and controversial issues. Accountants are often stereotyped as soulless drones laboring listlessly in the bowels of corporate bureaucracies. But many accountants will tell you that it’s people skills‚ not technical knowledge‚ that are crucial to
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