Week 2: Topic 1: Financial Accounting Theory & the Reporting Environment GHTHH Chapter 2 5. Researchers who develop positive theories and researchers who develop normative theories often do not share the same views about the roles of their respective approaches to theory construction. (a) How do positive and normative theories differ? (b) Can positive theories assist normative theories‚ or vice versa? If yes‚ give an example. If not‚ why not? Normative accounting research makes policy recommendations
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copy of the 3rd edition of The Future of Business by N. Althouse‚ S. Rose‚ L. Allan‚ L. J. Gitman‚ & C. McDaniel. Published by Thomson Nelson. The assigned text is the 4th edition of the book‚ which is available for purchase new from the University of Saskatchewan bookstore. However there are used copies of the 3rd edition of the book on sale around campus. Given that much of text in the two books is the same‚ it should be possible to use the 3rd edition instead of the 4th edition. If you do buy
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C H A P T E R O N E INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Accounting as a profession or discipline‚ has always been seen as an information-generating one‚ which fittingly makes the job of the Accountant to be that of observing economic activities‚ recording the observations in the prescribed books‚ analysing the recordings‚ interpreting his analysis and preparing reports to all users of Accounting Information. The prepared reports are generally referred to as financial statements‚ which clearly
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Chapter 8: Reporting and interpreting cost of sales and inventory 8.1 Estimate the amount of inventories that your company purchased and produced during the current year. (Hint: use the cost of sales equation.) For the amount of inventories that Loblaw purchased and produced during the current year‚ we need to find the purchases of the period by using the equation of the cost of sales (BI + P – EI = COS). In the report‚ we can find the cost of sales (24 185 million) that we add to the ending
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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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Tom Brown‚ the controller for MicroTech Software Company‚ is responsible for preparing the company’s financial statements. He learns that sales for the first quarter of the year have dropped so dramatically that the company is in danger of bankruptcy. As a result‚ he applies for an accounting position with another software company that competes with MicroTech. During his job interview‚ Tom is asked why he wants to leave MicroTech. He replies truthfully‚ “The company sales are down another
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References: • Dahmash‚ N. (1995). Financial Statements and Accounting Standards Generally Accepted.. Amman-Jordan. • Kieso‚ D. E.‚ Waygandt‚ J. J.‚ & Warfield‚ T. D. (2005). Intermediate Accounting. (11 edition). Wiley Publisher. • ACCPA‚ (2006) Journal of Accountancy‚ (Monthly Journal) September 2006‚ p. 17. • Cheney‚ G. (2006). FASB‚ IASB request views on new reporting concepts. Accounting Today‚ Aug. 21-Sept. 3. • Singleton-Green‚ B. (2006). The gathering
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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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CHAPTER 12 Statement of Cash Flows Study Objectives 1. Indicate the usefulness of the statement of cash flows. 2. Distinguish among operating‚ investing‚ and financing activities. 3. Explain the impact of the product life cycle on a company’s cash flows. 4. Prepare a statement of cash flows using the indirect method. 5. Use the statement of cash flows to evaluate a company. *6. Prepare a statement of cash flows using the direct method. Summary of Questions by Study Objectives
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COST ACCOUNTING P 15-35 Required: 1. Using selling prices‚ allocate the $1‚000 gateway-package revenue to the three divisions using: a. The stand-alone revenue-allocation method | Selling Price | Rev. Allocation | Precio por cuarto para dos personas 2 noches | $800 | $581.82 | Dos “rounds” de golf con precio de | 375 | 272.73 | Una cena para dos | 200 | 145.45 | | $1‚375 | $1‚000 | b. The incremental revenue-allocation method | Selling Price | Rev. Allocation
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