USPS Business Practices John Tuttle MGT 330 Alfred Wilfong February 5‚ 2012 The United States Postal Service has been in business since 1775. It employs over half a million people‚ and is the second largest civilian employer in the United States. Without the aid of tax payer dollars‚ the USPS has been profitable every year until 2008. With the congressional mandated 5+ billion dollar prefunded health care payment‚ along with the rise of other forms of communication (E-mail‚ Facebook
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Here are some of the best HR practices that help in the creation of a highly satisfied and motivated work force. Work Environment A safe and happy workplace makes the employees feel good about being there. Each one is given importance and provided the security that gives them the motivation and incentive to stay. This is usually achieved through internal surveys to find out whether they are satisfied and if not what they think needs to be changed. Open Management Employees don’t like the feeling
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Technology with Accounting Research Journal article by James E. Hunton; Accounting Horizons‚ Vol. 16‚ 2002 Journal Article Excerpt See below... Blending Information and Communication Technology with Accounting Research. by James E. Hunton INTRODUCTION The purpose of this commentary is to explore how information and communication technologies (ICT) have forever changed many aspects of business and accounting practice and‚ as a result‚ offer new and exciting research opportunities to accounting professionals
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1 CHAPTER ONE: ACCOUNTING IN BUSINESS Chapter Outline I. Importance of Accounting—we live in the information age‚ where information‚ and its reliability‚ impacts the financial well-being of us all. A. Accounting Activities Accounting is an information and measurement system that identifies‚ records and communicates relevant‚ reliable‚ and comparable information about an organizations business activities. B. Users of Accounting Information 1. External Information Users—those not directly involved
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For week five the area that I felt most comfortable with is unethical accounting practices. One clear example that stood out in my mind in which I could relate was the Enron Scandal. I learned that situations may lead to unethical accounting practices vary from position to position. Individual freedoms and lack of controls are two situations that would lead to unethical accounting practices. Individual freedoms would include not being monitored and an individual performing all of the related activities
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bureaucratic ideas are still widely used among organizations to ensure success. Kaiser Permanente has found this system to be reliable‚ accurate and secure; all these terms have assisted our large complex organization to control its vast amount of employees. The four major steps of the control system‚ which have to do with performance standards settings‚ measurement‚ comparing and taking corrective actions‚ serve as the artery of the organization. The partnership that Kaiser Permanente and Labor
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spreadsheet allows users to make complex calculations automatically and to change single number and update all related numbers at the click of a mouse. As one of the most popular financial software‚ spreadsheet is widely applied in areas such as accounting‚ finance‚ marketing‚ taxation‚ engineering‚ educational‚ scientific and medical fields (Ballantine‚ 1991). In 2004‚ SimCorp USA Inc and the Financial Executives Consulting Group found that about 64 percent of domestic companies depend on spreadsheet
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What is financial reporting? The traditional function of financial reporting was to provide business owners with information about the companies that they owned and operated. Once the delegation of managerial responsibilities to hired personnel became a common practice‚ financial reporting began to focus on stewardship—that is‚ on the managers’ accountability to the owners. Its purpose then was to document how effectively the owners’ assets were managed‚ in terms of both capital preservation and
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QUESTION 1 25 MARKS The following is Whisky Traders’ Trial Balance at the end of its first year of trading‚ 31 August 2010: R R DR CR Bank Overdraft 93 000 Buildings 500 000 Capital ? Petty Cash 3 000 Creditors Control 50 000 Debtors Control 60 000 Equipment 90 000 Investments 90 000 Long term Loans 200 000 Motor Vehicles 120 000 Inventory 200 000 Retained Earnings 420 000 1 063 000 1 063 000 However the following transaction has not yet being taken into account: • A delivery vehicle
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planning‚ organizing‚ leading‚ and controlling‚ although some identify additional functions. The functions of management define the process of management as distinct from accounting‚ finance‚ marketing‚ and other business functions. These functions provide a useful way of classifying information about management‚ and most basic management texts since the 1950s have been organized around a functional framework. Controlling Controlling involves ensuring that performance
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