Michigan university | Is It Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis? | By Robert C. Pozen | | Luma Raha | 10/12/2011 | The article from the Harvard Business Review‚ "Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?" ‚ author Robert Pozen stipulates that the fair value accounting principles did not cause the financial crisis of 2008‚ but certainly aggravated it by common misconceptions about accounting standards. The article defines mark-to-market
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Weygandt‚ Paul D. Kimmel‚ and Donald E. Kieso‚ accounting principles 2012 Microsoft Corporation‚ Template http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/pro-forma-income-statement-TC101877359.aspx A Securities and Exchange Commission Staff Paper November 16‚ 2011‚ A Comparison of U.S. GAAP and IFRS http://www.sba.gov/category/navigation-structure/starting-managing-business/starting-business/how-write-business-plan University of Washington‚ Financial Accounting‚ http://f2.washington.edu/fm/fa/internal-controls
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(FALSE) 8.) Managerial accounting places less emphasis on non monetary data than financial accounting? (FALSE) 9.) Direct material cost combines with manufacturing overhead cost is known as conversion cost? (FALSE) direct labor 10.) The cost of shipping parts from a supplier is not considered a product cost? (FALSE) it is a product cost 11.) The fixed cost per unit is constant and does not depend on how many units are produced? (FALSE) it does depend (it is not constant) 12.) Managerial accounting is
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Financial accounting information stakeholders duped It is a sine quo non for business leaders to use‚ rather than just produce financial information. I am in absolute agreement with this phenomenon in that the information generated by the international professional accounting community highly affects various stakeholders in the decision making process to govern businesses. Therefore any material elements within the financial information that boarder on misguidance will lead to corporate financial
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Rittenberg 8th edition: Q 2-45 (pages 66 and 67) 2-45 (Audit Committees and Auditor Independence‚ LO 4‚ 5‚ 6) The audit committee is required to evaluate the independence of both the internal and external audit functions. Required a. What factors would you suggest an audit committee look at in evaluating the external auditor’s independence? b. How can the audit committee influence the independence of the internal audit function? c. The audit committee must pre-approve all nonaudit services
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THE EFFECTS OF ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS ON FINANCIAL STATEMENT 5.1 ENTITY CONCEPT The first accounting concept is entity concept. These concept shows accounts are kept for entities and not the people who own or run the company. Even in proprietorships and partnerships‚ the accounts for the business must be kept separate from those of the owners. This is because what whatever amount the company owes to others is not the liabilities of the owners. The maximum amount that the owner is going to lose
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SWOT analysis method and examples The SWOT analysis is an extremely useful tool for understanding and decision-making for all sorts of situations in business and organizations. SWOT is an acronym for Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities‚ Threats. Information about the origins and inventors of SWOT analysis is below. The SWOT analysis headings provide a good framework for reviewing strategy‚ position and direction of a company or business proposition‚ or any other idea. Completing a SWOT analysis
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as is Case 1-4 Generally Accepted Accounting Principles At the completion of the Darby Department Store audit‚ the president asks about the meaning of the phrase “in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles‚” which appears in your audit report on the management’s financial statements. He observes that the meaning of the phrase must include more than what he thinks of as “principles.” Required: a. Explain the meaning of the term accounting principles as used in the audit report
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |3. Explain the recording | |6‚ 7‚ 8 | |2 | |2‚ 3‚ | |2A‚ 3A‚ 4A‚ | |2B‚ 3B‚ | |of sales under a perpetual inventory system.| | | | | | | | | |4B | |
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Department of Career and Management Studies www.mcgill.ca/conted-cms/ Course Outline Course Name: Advanced Financial Accounting III ACCT 453 / CCFC 513-771 Instructor: Jim Wilson C.A. jim.wilson@mcgill.ca Course Assistant Mathew Goldsmith mathew.goldsmith@mail.mcgill.ca Email: The instructors can be reached from the email tool within WebCT Contact Information: Heico 2004 Member Inc. c/o Ivaco Rolling Mills 1040 County Road 17 L’Original‚ Ontario K0B 1K0 613-675-6887
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