Task 1 Accounting record is defined as the all of the documentations involved in the preparation of financial statements and records which are relevant to financial review and audits which include recording of assets and liabilities‚ ledgers‚ journals‚ and any other supporting documents like invoices. Ledger: Maintaining ledger is a must in all accounting system. Ledger is used for preparing trial balance which checks the arithmetical accuracy of the accounting books. Ledger is the store-house
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ACCT2202 Advanced Corporate Accounting Week 1: Unit introduction ACCT2202 Advanced Corporate Accounting: Unit staff • Lecturer-in-charge and tutor • Dr Rick Newby • Tutors • Mr Val Chin (Val.Chin@uwa.edu.au) • Mr Kevin Burns (Kevin.Burns@uwa.edu.au) Unit overview: Learning outcomes • Completion of this unit should help you to: • interpret and apply specific requirements of a range of Australian Accounting Standards (AASBs) • critically evaluate accounting requirements under Australian
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Assignment 1: Review of Accounting Ethics 1. Given the corporate ethical breaches in recent times‚ assess whether or not you believe that the current business and regulatory environment is more conducive to ethical behavior. Provide support for your answer. With the historical amount of fraud that has taken place over the last few decades‚ there had to be a stop of some sort to this type of unethical behavior. Through our class lectures‚ discussions‚ and readings‚ I have learned about the
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competencies in cost management‚ performance measurement (financial and non-financial)‚ process management and risk management as a result play a fey role in decision making across the various functional areas of an organization Managerial accounting: the form of accounting concerned with providing information to managers for use in planning and controlling operations and for decision making Financial accounting: the form of accounting concerned with providing information to shareholders‚ creditors
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Financial Accounting 504 23-Jun-13 Professor Chung Oracle v Microsoft Final Course Project As noted in Wikipedia Oracle is headquartered in Redwood‚ California. It was founded in 1977 and is the world’s third largest soft wear developer in sales. According to Yahoo Finance Oracle is a multi-faceted operation. Oracle provides a vast amount of services for the internet and computer. It provides cloud applications‚ IT consulting services‚ licenses middleware software which includes database and
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO COST ACCOUNTING QUESTIONS 1. Management accounting stresses the informational needs of internal users over those of external users (the focus of financial accounting). Because of this perspective‚ management accounting provides information in a format that is flexible and relevant to a particular manager‟s usage. Financial accounting‚ on the other hand‚ must provide some uniformity in the manner in which information is presented for it to be comparable among companies and
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introduction to finical accounting. For me‚ this is the first time I had chance to learn this subject‚ before that I just heard some information about IFA by reading the FT newspaper and watching the news. When I start learning that‚ this subject gives me the impression that it is difficult to understand. During the past few months‚ I can say I already mastered some of the skills in IFA. I can still remember the first lecture I had learned was the definition of the “Accounting Equation”‚ I can conclude
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ACCOUNTING FOR FREQUENT FLIERS INTRODUCTION: Accounting for frequent fliers had become a controversial topic since American Airlines in 1981 introduced them as a loyalty program. Loyalty programs provide members with benefits such as discounts and saving rewards‚ which make these programs popular among consumers (Liebermann‚ 1999). In this specific case‚ we define the Frequent Flier Program (FFP) as “the number of mileage credits and associated liabilities outstanding”. This program as we might see
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Strategic Management Accounting 2014 / 15 Level 6 Module Code 44-6785-00C Sheffield Business School Module leader - Richard Watkinson TABLE OF CONTENTS Page What’s this module about? 3 How will this module deliver the relevant industry sector skills and competencies? 3 How will this module be delivered? 4 Assessment Package 5 How will Blackboard be used with this module? 5 How will student feedback be obtained on this module and how will this be
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1. Identify an accounting scandal at a corporation that has resulted in a loss of reputation to the accounting profession. Explain the crime(s) committed. In early 2008 Lehman borrowed large amounts to fund its investing in the years leading to its bankruptcy in 2008‚ “a process known as leveraging or gearing”. A large part of their investments were towards housing market‚ making it vulnerable to a downturn in that market. This firm generated large profits during the housing boom‚ this place them
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