The Difference between Economic Profit and Accounting Profit When it comes to business decisions‚ there are many ways to analysis the financial status of a firm. What guidelines determine profit margin? Who uses these guidelines? How is profit used to analysis a firm and its business decisions? This paper will discuss two terms that are used to define profit: accounting profit and economic profit. The first term is called accounting profit which uses the equa-tion. The second term for profit
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and disclosure of financial information. These are called generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). In the United States‚ the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) formulates GAAP. The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) sets global or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)‚ the two basic types of external providers of capital include investors (who exchange cash for stock) and creditors (who loan cash) to the entity to be useful‚ information must have the fundamental
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IT: What is the difference between Information Systems and Information Technology? In: Computer Terminology‚ Technology‚ Information Technology [Edit categories] Answer: Information Systems is a large umbrella referring to systems designed to create‚ store‚ manipulate‚ or disseminate information. Example of an information system is a pencil and a piece of paper. The two objects themselves are just tools‚ but together they create a system for writing (information). The term Information systems has been
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share some similarities in their accounting systems. Being strongly influenced by the individualism culture‚ both countries exercise a high level of professionalism among accountants. There is a common tendency to follow accounting standards bodies in both countries. In the UK this would be the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) which helps to set the Financial Reporting standards (FRS) used in the UK‚ whereas in the Netherlands the Dutch Generally Accepted Accounting Polices (GAAP) are provided by the
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is data vis-à-vis information? When can information be deemed good and useful? How are these related/ connected to an information system? Data are facts‚ which may or may not be processed (edited‚ summarized‚ or refined) and have no direct effect on the user. By contrast‚ information causes the user to take an action that he or she otherwise could not‚ or would not‚ have taken. Information is often defined simply as processed data. This is an inadequate definition. Information is determined by the
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Introduction The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is a statutory body under the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) Act 2001 and its purpose is to oversee the process of setting accounting & auditing standards. One of the many key roles of FRC includes the maintenance of independence functions of auditor by monitoring and assessing the overall adequacy of the procedures followed by the auditors and their compliance with auditor independence requirements (FRC 2011). It also
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Accounting System and Financial Reporting of NGOs: Case Study of a BRAC’s Project Munima Siddika1‚ Mohammad Sarwar Jahan Rekabder2 and A.K.M. Delwar Hossain3 tawheedfj@yahoo.com Abstract: In the absence of specific accounting and financial reporting standards and diverse interpretation of certain terms under the laws of the land‚ it has become a very difficult task to follow a standardized procedure in generation and presentation of accounting and financial information of NGOs. The practices
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Prior to the evolution of computer software and eventually to the creation of electronic spreadsheets‚ accountants relied heavily on manual calculations for financial reports‚ budgetary projections‚ incomplete records accounting ect. As Ballantine explains‚ “much valuable time had been spent on repetitive calculations [...] if one or more input values were altered and the entire worksheet had to be recalculated manually.” (1991‚ p.204). Today the same logic behind manual worksheets apply but with
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objective in this case is to exposed students to different methods of inventory valuation. Students must know about LIFO and FIFO. Second Objective: The second objective is to introduces the idea that companies have choices about accounting policies to preparing their financial reports. FIFO Method: FIFO involves the assumption that goods sold are the first unit that we purchased that the oldest goods on hand. The remaining inventory is comprised of the most recent purchases. LIFO Method: In LIFO
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1. | Question : | Li Retailing reported the following items for the current year: Sales = $3‚000‚000; Cost of Goods Sold = $1‚500‚000; Depreciation Expense = $170‚000; Administrative Expenses = $150‚000; Interest Expense = $30‚000; Marketing Expenses = $80‚000; and Taxes = $300‚000; Li’s operating profit margin is equal to | | | Student Answer: | | 25.67% | | | | 35.67% | | | | 36.67% | | | | 50.00% | | Instructor Explanation: | Operating Profit Margin = EBIT/Sales
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