Paper P9 – Management Accounting Financial Strategy Post Exam Guide May 2006 Exam Examiner’s General Comments The performance on Paper P9 was extremely disappointing. Many candidates appeared to have done little preparation. It was noted in the November 2005 Post Exam Guide that many candidates demonstrated poor knowledge of even quite basic financial calculations and that their grasp of many basic concepts was also limited. These weaknesses are still evident in May 2006. A further weakness was the
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Enron Scandal In 1985‚ Enron was formed by Kenneth Lay after the merging of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth. In the 1990s‚ Lay helped to initiate the selling of electricity at market prices. Markets made it easier for Enron to sell energy at higher prices‚ which caused the company to get richer. Enron was the largest merchant of natural gas in 1992. In November 1999‚ the creation of EnronOnline enabled Enron to develop‚ negotiate and manage its trading business. By 2001‚ Enron became a
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MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE: IMPACT OF ALIGNMENT OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING SYSTEM‚ STRUCTURE AND STRATEGY ON PERFORMANCE Introduction In the search to understand management accounting in competitive environments and advance technologies‚ change has increasingly become a focus for research. Many firms have experienced significant changes in their organizational design‚ competitive environments and technologies. Business environments exhibit a variety of structures and processes
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Xerox Corporation Xerox Corporation is a $16 billion technology and services enterprise that helps businesses deploy smart document management strategies and find better ways to work. It’s intent is to constantly lead with innovative technologies‚ products and solutions that customers can depend upon to improve business results. Xerox provides the document industry’s broadest portfolio of offerings. Digital systems include color and black-and-white printing and publishing systems‚ digital presses
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solving technique to calculate probability of outcomes by using random variables and multiple trials which are termed as simulations (Berg‚ 2004). Monte Carlo Simulation is used by professionals in engineering‚ medicine‚ physics‚ chemists‚ project management‚ manufacturing‚ research and development‚ environmental specialists‚ oil and gas and several business functions. This is a reflective report in which case study of Fennel Design Project of Laura Watson company is used to predict the demand of greeting
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of the Enron Scandal The main problem of the Enron scandal was that they committed business fraud. This is what the root problem of the company was. The sad thing about the Enron scandal was that approximately 22‚000 men and women lost their jobs. Not only did it affect the people who worked for the company but the problem was that it also affected other accounting firms that worked directly with Enron‚ for example the company Arthur Anderson went under because of the Enron scandal and this also
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the company need to make customers more confidence in the company by using own product to create a better reputation of the company. Selling division should not normally be forced to sell to an internal division if it doesn’t want to. If the top management really wants the division to sell internally‚ it should provide
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1. Environmental impacts of nuclear waste. Nuclear waste or radioactive waste is the residue of nuclear reactors‚ nuclear researches‚ nuclear projects and nuclear bomb reaction. Nuclear wastes‚ also known as spent fuel‚ are dangerously radioactive and could exist for thousands of years. The release of nuclear waste from its reactor could easily cause a lot of diseases like acute radiation sickness. The injection of nuclear waste to underground water causes water pollution and could contribute
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CHAPTER 4 CHANGES FACING MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS IN POSTMODERN TIMES 4.1 INTRODUCTION In seeking answers to typical questions associated with morphogenic change (see paragraph 3.2)‚ it becomes apparent that business‚ and consequently management accountants‚ have been faced by a confluence of forces of change during the past decade. Chapter 3 defined change‚ and more particularly the concept of morphogenic change. The three major drivers of change were discussed in paragraph 3.3‚ namely computer
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“Clean-City” a waste management and recycling business with the tagline “Today’s Waste‚ Tomorrow’s Wealth” is going to be introduced experimentally in Chittagong city with a view to utilizing the household waste in an eco-friendly way by recycling them and thus making the city clean. Previously it was quite difficult to convince lower class/ lower middle class people as they have got to pay for the waste. But our attempt will ensure ultimate collection of those wastes as we are not taking
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