Case Study 2-Internal Controls 2014 ACCT 504 Table of Contents I) Introduction II) Internal Control Requirements-Sarbanes/Oxley Act III) Internal Controls-Strengths IV) Internal Controls-Opportunities for Improvement Introduction It has come to the attention of the president of LJB Company that an evaluation is needed to determine the reliability and level of compliance of the company’s
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Journal Article Review Chamberlain College of Nursing Health Assessment NR 305 Journal Article Review Introduction . In the December 2007 issue of Nursing Standards‚ Hilary Lloyd and Stephen Craig explain the process and importance of taking a full and comprehensive patient health history in the article‚ “A guide to taking a patient’s history”. General principles‚ tools and strategies are outlined in this article to assist the nurse when performing a health history assessment for a patient
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Chapter 10 Property‚ Plant‚ and Equipment and Intangible Assets: Acquisition and Disposition Questions for Review of Key Topics Question 10-1 The difference between tangible and intangible long-lived‚ revenue-producing assets is that intangible assets lack physical substance and they primarily refer to the ownership of rights. Question 10-2 The cost of property‚ plant‚ and equipment and intangible assets includes the purchase price (less any discounts received from the seller)
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Hayley Wicks ACCT 540 Week 4: Course Project (Case 1) Typically‚ hedging strategies are implemented as a means of protection. The dictionary tells us that hedging strategies involve making counterbalancing investments in order to avoid a loss. With regards to the futures market‚ hedging strategies involve a position in the market that is the opposite of an entity’s current position. Any gain or loss in the cash market is usually followed by a counterbalanced effect in the futures market since the
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Taxes Dorothy Cartwright DeVry University Taxes As the owner of PSG Tax Services‚ Inc. it is my duty to provide the knowledge and understanding of taxes to my clients. This week I had the pleasure of meeting Jackson and Kara Erb. The newlywed couple showed drastic signs of having no knowledge of taxes or why the government issues taxes. A “tax can be defined as a payment to support the cost of government” (Jones‚ 2014). Taxes are implemented by our government to raise revenues
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THE PARMALAT SCANDAL The Parmalat situation started out as a fairly standard – although sizeable –accounting fraud. Not even the best auditors could prepare for what was to come from this company. The Parmalat group‚ a world leader in the dairy food business‚ collapsed and entered bankruptcy protection in December 2003 after acknowledging massive holes in its financial statements. This happened when billions of euros seem to have gone missing from the company’s accounts. This dramatic collapse
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Evaluating a Company’s Budget Procedures Springfield Corporation operates on a calendar-year basis. It begins the annual budgeting process in late August‚ when the president establishes targets for the total dollar sales and the net income before taxes for the next year. The sales target is given to the Marketing Department‚ where the marketing manager formulates a sales budget by product line in both units and dollars. From this budget‚ sales quotas by product line in units and dollars
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NPV A Item Years "Amt of Cash Flow" "20% FACTOR" "PV of Cash Flows" Annual Cost Savings 1 - 7 80000 3.605 288400 Initial Investment NOW -300000 1 -300000 Salvage Value 7 20000 0.279 5580 Net Present Value -6020 NPV B Item Years "Amt of Cash Flow" "20% FACTOR" "PV of Cash Flows" Annual Cost Savings 1 - 7 60000 3.605 216300 Initial Investment NOW -300000 1 -300000 Working Capital Released 7 300000 0.279 83700 Net Present Value 0 NPV A
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LBJ Company: Internal Control Evaluation Accounting 504: Managerial Use & Analysis Case Study 2 Written by: 8/10/13 This evaluation is being presented as an assessment of the preparedness of the LJB Company to go public at a future date. By researching current regulations regarding publicly traded firms we hope to prepare for a smooth transition into the trading market. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) has established the following guidelines
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Tom Emory and Jim Morris strolled back to their plant from the administrative offices of the Ferguson & Son Mfg. Company. Tom is the manger of the machine shop in the company’s factory. Jim is the manager of the equipment maintenance department. The men had just attended the monthly performance evaluation meeting for plant department heads. These meetings had been held on the third Tuesday of each month since Robert Ferguson‚ Jr.‚ the president’s son‚ had become the plant manager a year earlier.
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