Accounting Theory – Seminar 2 Presentation Briefly describe the accounting profession/What is the role of accountants? Accountants analyse costs of operations‚ products‚ and special projects. Compute taxes owed‚ prepare tax returns. Organize and maintain financial records. Suggest ways to reduce costs‚ enhance revenues and improve profits‚ Improve businesses efficiency. Critically discuss the role of the CFO Andy Fastow in the ENRON scandal Fastow created hundreds/ of "special-purpose entities"–off
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Classify each of the following financial statement items taken from Mordica Corporation’s balance sheet. CL Accounts payable CA Accounts receivable PPE Accounts depreciation-equipment PPE Buildings CA Cash CL Interest payable IA Goodwill CL Income taxes payable CL Inventory CA Stock investments (to be sold in 7 months) PPE Land (in use) LTL Mortgage payable CA Supplies PPE Equipment CA Prepaid rent E2-2. Classify each of the following financial statement items based upon the
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INC) | |[pic] | |Financial analysis statement for the year ended | |December in 2011
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investments or capital of the firm and not only in relation to sales. Return on capital employed ratio measures the efficiency with which the investment made by shareholders and creditors is used in the business. Managers use this ratio for various financial decisions. It is a ratio of overall profitability and a higher ratio is‚ therefor‚ better. To see whether the business has improved its profitability or not‚ the ratio can be calculated for a number of years. Return on equity (ROE) is widely
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View from PAT Positive accounting is to set some hypothesis which could affect accounting practice based on economic theory‚ using scientific methodology to do research and test those hypothesis. Simply speaking‚ it applied empirical research to accounting field. Positive Accounting focus on questions like “what is”‚ different from Normative Accounting which focus on questions like “what should be ”. Compare those two accounting theory‚ positive accounting theory is more scientific. Watts and Zimmerman(1986)
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JET Task 5 A1. Key Points Banks are concerned with Custom Snowboards liabilities and assets. They are interested in assets as this is what Customer Snowboards will use to generate funds to repay the loan. Banks are interested in liabilities as this is what Custom Snowboards currently owes other creditors. Custom Snowboard‚ Inc. showed a small decrease of 3.40% in net sales from Year 13 to Year 14. This slight reduction can be attributed to the decline in the current economic situation
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ATHE level 5 Extended Diploma in Management Unit name: Finance for Managers Unit no: 4.9 Assignment title: An investigation report on accounting and financial control Submission date: 21st September 2012 Submitted by: Ahmed Shahir ATHE registration number: Table of contents Introduction 2 Purpose and requirements for keeping financial records 3 Techniques for recording financial information 3 Legal and organisational
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Kolb’s ELT with the Critical Thinking Components Superimposed: Accounting for Property‚ Plant & Equipment (IAS 16) – Standard Accounting Practise (Simon‚ 2009) Concerns have been (Kolb 1984) Kolb’s ELT with the Critical Thinking Components Superimposed: Accounting for Property‚ Plant & Equipment (IAS 16) - Variation from the Standard (Simon 2009) (Kolb
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not-for-profit organizations? Does the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board have authority to establish auditing standards for not-for-profits? What specific steps might governmental agencies or not-for-profits take to comply with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Bill? 1. Reporting for governmental agencies and not-for profits has become more detailed including management representations related to the fairness of their financial statements and an assessment of the effectiveness of internal
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Text and Cases Thirteenth Edition Robert N. Anthony Ross G. Walker Professor Emeritus Graduate School of Business Administration Harvard University David F. Hawkins Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration Graduate School of Business Administration Harvard University Kenneth A. Merchant Deloitte & Touche LLP Chair of Accountancy Leventhal School of Accounting University of Southern California McGraw-Hill Irwin Contents PARTI FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 1 Chapter 1 The
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