major item on the balance sheet and often the largest item making up the accounts included in working capital. 2. The need for organizations to have the inventory in diverse locations makes the physical control and counting of the inventory difficult. 3. Inventory takes many different forms that are difficult for the auditor to fully understand. 4. The consistent application of different valuation methods can be fairly complicated. 5. The valuation of inventory is difficult due to such factors as
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ACCG399 Accounting in Context Macquarie City Campus Unit Guide Offered in Session 2‚ Undergraduate‚ City 2013 General Information Convenor and teaching staff: Lecturer –in-Charge: Email: Adrian Koit Adrian.Koit@mqc.edu.au Credit Points 3 Prerequisites ACCG224(P) and 42cp Corequisites N/A Co-badged status This unit is not co-badged. Contacting Staff Please use email as the first form of contact. Students are required to send all enquiries about the unit to the staff
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JB Accounting Fraud‚ the Investor and the Sarbanes Oxley Act Throughout the past several years major corporate scandals have rocked the economy and hurt investor confidence. The largest bankruptcies in history have resulted from greedy executives that “cook the books” to gain the numbers they want. These scandals typically involve complex methods for misusing or misdirecting funds‚ overstating revenues‚ understating expenses‚ overstating the value of assets or underreporting of liabilities
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MODULE 1 Management Accounting Module 1 Management Accounting Objectives Aim To provide an understanding of the nature of management accounting and its role in the process of managing and controlling the enterprise. Key Concepts ▪ Management accounting ▪ Management control ▪ Decision making Learning Outcomes By the end of this section you should be able to understand: ▪ The purpose of management accounting ▪ The concepts and processes of control. The
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Financial Accounting vs Management Accounting Management accounting is a field of accounting that analyzes and provides cost information to the internal management for the purposes of planning‚ controlling and decision making. Management accounting refers to accounting information developed for managers within an organization. CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) defines Management accounting as “Management Accounting is the process of identification‚ measurement‚ accumulation
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theory of accounting. There are a number of accounting theories (though a systematic attempt has been made by Financial Accounting Board (FASB) of USA and IASC and other to formulate a comprehensive theory of accounting). The definition of Accounting Theory given by Hendriksen as “a set of broad principles that (i) provide a general frame of reference by which accounting practice can be evaluated‚ and (ii) guide the development of new practices and procedures” lead us to perceive accounting theory as
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The Importance Of Accounting In Our Modern Society Accounting is a very important term to our modern society. It is the career for men and women who at the start have their eyes set on top positions in industry‚ management‚ government‚ and general business. Accounting is a basic need of every businessmen‚ from the operator of a filling station to the government of the United States. It’s so important to our society. None of the business organization can operate without is. They
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a I/A Accounting Management Accounting 1. Management accounting – Its nature‚ purposes‚ place in general accounting theory‚ role in general and strategic decision making process of management‚ comparisons with other areas of accounting 2. Definitions of cost‚ cost classification‚ cost behaviour 3. Costing issues – Cost accumulation; cost allocation‚ apportionment‚ absorption; overheads‚ overhead absorption rates‚ under and over-recovery of overheads‚ normal and actual costing 4. Absorption
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QUESTIONS FOR MID-TERM EXAM 1. All the users of interested parties (users of information) have equal possibility/rights/power to get company’s financial information. Do you agree with this statement (give you arguments)? How financial statements are useful to the various interested parties (users of information)? Financial accounting’s aim is to allow all the users of interested parties to understand firm’s situations in global and synthetic way. The financial statement produce information
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Inability to judge quality of performance 3. Ignorance‚ apathy and incapacity 4. Lack of an audit trail ” Sullivan directed subordinates to book certain fraudulent adjustments and entries in WorldCom’s general ledger to mask WorldCom’s true performance. The fraudulent adjustments and entries were designed to falsely increase WorldCom’s reported revenue and to falsely decrease WorldCom’s reported expenses Sullivan directed members of WorldCom’s General Accounting Department to reduce hundreds of millions
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