A SHORT HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING AND BUSINESS The history of accounting is as old as civilization‚ among the most important professions in economic and cultural development. Accountants invented writing‚ developed money and banking‚ innovated the double entry bookkeeping system that fueled the Italian Renaissance‚ were needed by Industrial Revolution inventors and entrepreneurs for survival‚ helped develop the capital markets necessary for big business so essential for capitalism‚ turned into a profession
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Chapter 02 Worldwide Accounting Diversity Multiple Choice Questions 1. What is the equivalent of U.S. balance sheet common stock on the balance sheet of a British company? A) Capital redemption reserve B) Share premium account C) Own shares held D) Called-up share capital Answer: D Level: Medium LO: 1 2. Which of the following is not a problem caused by accounting diversity? A) Lack of qualified international
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Question no: 01:- Accounting profit and Economic profit. Economic Profit Implicit cost Accounting profit Explicit cost Total opportunity cost Revenue Revenue How an economist views a firm How an accountant views a firm Accounting profit equals sales revenue minus ( - ) all costs except the cost of equity capital‚ while Economic profit is sales revenue minus ( - ) all costs including the opportunity cost of equity capital. Thus economic profit may be lower than the accounting profit. If accounting
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B6013 Spring 2010 B6013 - Financial Accounting Financial Assets and Liabilities Shareholder’s Equity Professor Urooj Khan o esso U ooj a Outline – Session 19 1. Financial Assets and Liabilities – Accounting for Financial Assets 2. Shareholder’s Equity – – – – Capital Stock Cisco Case Dividends and Share Repurchases Comprehensive I C h i Income B6013 Spring 2010 © Columbia Business School 2 Prof. Urooj Khan 1 B6013 Spring 2010 Background Readings and Practice Problems
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the crime of deliberately deceiving another person or company in order to damage them‚ usually for personal gain. Defrauding people of money is the money is the most common type of fraud. Some types of fraud include false accounting‚ check fraud‚ and Internet fraud. Accounting fraud or scandals are business scandals that come from the tampered reports‚ usually by long time employees or trusted executives in either a large corporation or small business. In order to hide serious financial problems
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Accounting Theory Construction The function to study accounting theories is to classify them according to the assumptions they rely on‚ how they were formulated‚ and their approaches to explaining and predicting actual events. There are some classification which are pragmatic‚ syntactic‚ semantic‚ normative‚ positive‚ and naturalistic approaches. Pragmatic approaches are based on observing the behavior of accountants or those who use the information generated by accountant. Syntactic approaches
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Disadvantages of using a computerized accounting system………………………………………………………………...……1 Factors taken into consideration before using a computerized Accounting …………………………………………………………..……3 Synopsis of programmes used in computerized accounting ……………...4 The Impact Of I.T in The future Accounting ……………………………..5 Glossary………………………………………………………………….6 Introduction Advancement in Information technology has a prevalent impact on the accounting system procedures and skills required
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The Principles of Islamic Accounting Definition and discussion of some accounting principles and how they are fit into Islamic framework to furnish an accounting system and procedures for Islamic Financial institutions will be considered here. The plan to study accounting principles From an Islamic perspective is to review these principles from the viewpoint of the Major Islamic principles which govern financial dealings and contracts‚ as mentioned In the Qur ’an. These are: 1- Realization
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FACULTY OF BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SEMESTER: MEI 2013 BBAP 2103 COURSE: BACHELOR (HONS) MANAGEMENT (BIM) (A7470) COURSE TITLE: MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING MATRICULATION NO : RF179118001 IDENTITY CARD NO : RF179118 TELEPHONE NO : 0167386906 E-MAIL : vnod_86@yahoo.com LEARNING CENTRE : SEAMEO RECSAM LEARNING CENTRE Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction of the company 2.0 Explanation on the purposes of product cost information is
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COST ACCOUNTING: A BRANCH OF ACCONTING THE PRINCIPAL PURPOSE OF WHCH IS TO DTERMINE THE COST OF A SINGLE UNIT OR SERVICES (FOR STOCK VALUATION‚COST PLANNING AND CONTROL AND PROFIT REPORTING PURPOSE) . OR A BRANCH OF ACCOUNTING THAT DEALS WITH THE ACCUMULATION AND ANALYSIS OF COST INFORMATION FOR INTERNAL USE TO AID MAMNAGEMENT IN PLANNING‚ CONTROL AND DECISION MAKING
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