Case 8-28. Evaluating a Company’s Budget Procedures. 1. Identify the problems that exist in Ferguson & Sons Manufacturing Company’s budgetary control system and explain how the problems are likely to reduce the effectiveness of the system. The overall company’s strategy is not well defined by executives and communicated to the management. There is no goal other the cost reduction at total company level as well as at departmental level. Managers don’t see connection between expenses‚ revenues
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Accounting for the iPhone at Apple‚ Inc. (HBS 9-111-003) 1. Exhibit 3 provides the journal entries under subscription accounting. Refer to the example in Exhibit 3. a) Complete the following FSET assuming the Apple follows subscription accounting to account for iPhone’s sales revenue (separately for the transaction in Quarter 1 and in Quarters 2 to 8). Balance Sheet Income Statement Transaction Cash Asset + Noncash Assets - = Liabilities + Contrib. Capital + Earned Capital Revenues
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Subject : Financial Accounting Ⅱ Lease agreement between NeedsLease and HasSpace NeedsLease is renting a space for its corporate office from HasSpace by entering into a lease agreement. The agreed lease term is for 10 years and there is no option to renew nor is the ability to negotiate renewal of the term. According to ASC 840 (5F of statement 13)‚ the lease is classified as operating lease. The agreement includes two provisions that may require NeedsLease to perform certain activities at its
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had a single client with a large share of the business. The previous accounting system focused on two variables: direct labor and burden. For the latter‚ costs were grouped into a single cost pool that included burden costs associated with of the testing rooms i.e. mechanical and electrical; as well as engineering burden costs related to software and tooling development alongside administrative costs of the division. As the case mentions‚ total burden costs are then divided by the sum of testing and
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customer loyalty‚ and perhaps most importantly‚ human capital. These intangible assets are likely to provide tremendous earnings growth in the future which determines the company’s market value. Notice also that the company’s choice of conservative accounting policies has the effect of depressing the company’s book value of equity. 2. What effect did Microsoft’s software capitalization policy have on its financial statements? Ignore any potential tax effects. a. Assume that 60% of Microsoft’s
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Vocabulary Quiz Name _______________ Chapter 1 1. An accounting principle that states that assets should be recorded at their cost. 2. Debts and obligations of a business. 3. Resources owned by a business. 4. The amount by which expenses exceed revenues. 5. An association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners of a business for
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Chapter 1: The Accounting Environment – What is Accounting and Why is it Done? Accounting is a system for gathering data about an entity’s economic activity‚ processing and organizing the data and in turn‚ communicating that information to people who want to use it to make decisions. Data are unprocessed facts about an entity’s economic activity that is entered into an accounting system whereas information results from organizing and presenting the data in ways that make it useful for decision
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Electric utility bills. When an electric utility customer uses electricity‚ the electric company has earned revenues. It is obviously impossible‚ however‚ for the company to read all of its customers’ meters on the evening of December 31. How does the electric company know its revenue for a given year? Explain. According to historical data‚ the electricity usage usually tended to be fairly constant from month to month. The company can estimate the revenues for each month‚ by using historical data
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Case 5-1 1. How does Miller fit the profile of the average fraud perpetrator? Miller does seem to fit the profile of the average fraud criminal. This is because he worked his way up to gain inside information and trust from his bosses. He spent the money to support his lifestyle which was above his means. He also was not violent and he tried to use the money to pay back the stolen funds from his previous employers. How does he differ? He was different because he owned
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When its original incarnation‚ the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan‚ failed in 1998‚ it set in motion a series of paradigm shifts for the bank. First‚ the bank was sold to a US private equity group‚ Ripplewood. This was controversial as‚ per the case material‚ “corporate Japan loathed private equity groups‚ and the government was reluctant to allow a foreign group to control a major local bank.” Thus‚ right from the start‚ Shinsei Bank had an uphill climb ahead of it in terms of public acceptance
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