The primary role of management accounting is to information in a timely manner to the company’s provide relevant management to help them plan and control the activities of the organization and with which optimal and sound decisions can be made. All the topic areas examined relate to this primary role. Although this role and its related topics covered are clearly understood by most‚ if not all candidates or even managers in the organizations‚ different types of relevant information are needed for
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(a) Briefly explain what prompted some countries over the world to strongly advocate harmonization of accounting. The important reasons which necessitate harmonization of accounting practices are well contained in the observation made by Saudagaran. “While the initial efforts at harmonization were mainly championed by political bodies and professional accounting organizations‚ current pressures to harmonize are driven by investor groups who use financial statements‚ multinational companies which
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gooda available for sale. -the consistency principle states that the busineses should use the same accounting methods from period to period. -under the FIFO‚ the ending inventory is based on the cost of the most recent purchases. -the value of purchases remains the same irrespective of the inventory valuation method used. -using FIFO‚ the COGS is based on the oldest purchases. -the accounting conservatism principle requires that financial statements should report LEAST favorable figures. -do
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Benchmarking‚ Strategic Cost Management‚ Total Quality Management and Six Sigma. These developments had a vast impact on the overall usage of cost accounting. Accountants have been found to be the first to resist change‚ and the failure to various ABC and scorecard projects has been linked to the unwillingness of accountants themselves to see the project through. Despite all the positive results in the past‚ it appears that the adoption of advanced management accounting practices has slowed. The
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THE INVESTMENT DECISION: ESTIMATION RISK AND RISK ADJUSTED DISCOUNT RATES This text tries to examine the impact of risk estimation in the RADR on the estimates of project values using two methods which are the empirical survey literature and the textbook literature. The empirical survey literature focuses on RADR and textbook literature which focuses on estimation risk. (I)Estimation risk and biased present values estimates (a)Illustration of the nature of bias: this goes to explain that there will
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The lecture last night discussed accrual accounting concepts such as timing issues‚ and the basics of adjusting entries. The discussion went into more detail on periodicity assumption and how accounting divides the economic life of a business into artificial time periods. These time periods are generally a month‚ a quarter‚ or a year‚ now whether it is a fiscal year or a calendar year that is determined by the company itself. The lecture then reviews the revenue recognition principle which expects
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Table of Contents Introduction 3 Prescriptive Theory and Descriptive Theory 3 Economic Theory 4 Decision Usefulness Theory 5 Critical Accounting Theory and Critical Theory 6 System-Oriented Theories 7 Open System Theories 8 Behavioral Decision Theory 9 Legitimacy Theory 10 Political Economy Theory 11 Institutional Theory 12 Stakeholder Theory 13 Agency Theory 14 Normative Theory 15 Public Interest Theory 16 Capture Theory 17 Economic Interest Theory/Private
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—Conceptual 21.Which of the following is not considered cash for financial reporting purposes? a.Petty cash funds and change funds b.Money orders‚ certified checks‚ and personal checks c.Coin‚ currency‚ and available funds d.Postdated checks and I.O.U. ’s 22.Which of the following is considered cash? a.Certificates of deposit (CDs) b.Money market checking accounts c.Money market savings certificates d.Postdated checks 23.Travel advances should be reported as a.supplies. b.cash because
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Journal of Management Studies 43:1 January 2006 0022-2380 Guest Editors’ Introduction Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategic Implications* Abagail McWilliams‚ Donald S. Siegel and Patrick M. Wright College of Business Administration‚ University of Illinois at Chicago; Department of Economics‚ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; School of Industrial and Labor Relations‚ Cornell University We describe a variety of perspectives on corporate social responsibility (CSR)‚ which
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