Characteristics of Accounting Information Business owners can use accounting information to conduct a financial analysis of their companies’ operations. Accounting information often has quantitative and qualitative characteristics. Quantitative characteristics refer to the calculation of financial transactions. Qualitative characteristics include the business owner’s perceived importance of financial information. Business owners often require financial information when making business
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Effective Accounting Information Qualities of Effective Accounting Information Accounting information contains qualitative characteristics that make it useful to existing and potential investors‚ lenders‚ and other creditors for making decisions about an organization. A decision maker needs to determine which alternative provides the most useful information for decision-making purposes (Kieso‚ Weygandt‚ & Warfield‚ 2007). To make the information useful‚ effective accounting information needs
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Ph.D.‚ CPA Professor‚ Accounting & Information Systems Program‚ School of Management University of Alaska Fairbanks 225E Bunnell Hall‚ PO Box 756080‚ Fairbanks‚ AK 99775-6080 Office: 907 474-5872; FAX: 907 474-5767; Cell: 907 978-2094 Email – mldavis@alaska.edu TEACHING INTERESTS‚ RESEARCH INTERESTS Primary teaching interests – graduate or undergraduate – focus on financial‚ intermediate‚ advanced‚ financial statement analysis and accounting theory Research concentrates
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Small Business in Sub-Saharan Africa: Major Constraints in [Nigeria] Introduction The Federal Republic of Nigeria has an area of 923‚768.00 sq kilometres and completely within the tropical zone (About.com 2005). Nigeria has a population which is estimated over 154 million. It is a 12th largest petroleum product producer in the world. Due to the surge in international oil prices during 2007-08‚ Nigeria administrated an annual GDP of US$352.3 billion and has the largest GDP compare
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business‚ the management of company’s information online has developed into an issue to be concerned. AIS‚ which is short for Accounting Information System‚ is not merely related to accounting information management as the business develops around the world. In the various explanations of AIS in the Lecture 1‚ p12130 Accounting Information System‚ presented at the University of Nottingham Ningbo by Trevor Bayley‚ Vaassen (2002) defined AIS as provides information for decision-making and accountability
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Accounting Information Systems: An Overview The ’systems’ concept was created in order to minimize common errors such as duplications and‚ overall‚ encourage ‘integration’. Systems are almost always composed of subsystems‚ which are in charge of specific functions needed to support the larger organism. Subsystems are expected to follow the main organization’s goals even if it implies not meeting their specific targets. The value of the information reported by an entity is the difference between
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roles of financial accounting “Accounting is an information system that identifies‚ records‚ and communicates the economic events of an organization to interested users.”1. The basic objective of accounting is to provide information to the interested users to enable them to make business decisions and “Financial statements are the primary means of communicating financial information to parties outside the business organization.”2. Moreover‚ accounting can give the essential information‚ especially for
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Benefits of a Cost Accounting Information System By kmoney4islam. Cost accounting offers benefits for manufacturing companies. A cost accounting information system offers benefits for many companies. Cost accounting is a type of accounting method concerned with the cost of goods manufactured and /or sold. Many factors are taken into consideration when cost accountants analyze business costs . The information determined by these accountants is used for inventory valuation ‚ financial statements
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is ToC? Everyone has heard the saying that the chain is only strong as its weakest link and this is exactly what the theory of constraints actually defines and reflects. Constructed by Dr. Eli Goldratt‚ the theory was published in the book The Goal‚ in 1984. According to this book‚ any organization’s performance is greatly dependent on the constraints. These constraints prevent the enterprise from delivering its optimal performance and thereby failing to reach the designated goals. This is the weakest
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THE ROLE OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION IN DECISION-MAKING STRATEGIES AND PROCESSES OVIDIA DOINEA ovidia.doinea@ucv.ro GHEORGHE LEPĂDAT gheorghe.lepadat@ucv.ro VASILE TOMIŢĂ vasile.tomita@ucv.ro IONELA DĂNIASA ionela.daniasa@ucv.ro University of Craiova ABSTRACT. The paper generates insights about the linkages between the exploitation of inside information on capital markets‚ the integration of organizational information‚ the use of accounting information‚ the relationship between information asymmetry
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