THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY ACCOUNTING TEAM Summary: Sarah (the name given by us) has been working in McKay‚ Sanderson‚ and Smith Associates a mid-sized accounting team located in Boston that is specialized in commercial accounting and audits for past five years. Her specialty is accounting practices for shipping companies‚ ranging from small to certain big fleets along east coast. About two months ago her company merged with another two other accounting firms which has offices in Miami‚ Seattle‚ Baton
Premium Strategic planning Problem solving Strategic management
As the result of the ratio analysis. There are 5 limitations of ratio analysis as well. The first limitation of the ratio analysis is Comparing the ratios between two organizations/firms is a smooth path to do it. This is because‚ different organization/firms might have face unequal figures of earnings‚ losses. In addition‚ fact is the two difference organizations/firms might have different economic environment or production technologies even though they produce the same range of the product. For
Free Ratio Future Inflation
Bahrain Collage of Business Administration A Paper Highlighting: How accounting fraud has changed merger valuation Prepared For: Professor Omar Al-‐Jahmani Course: Advanced Financial Accounting (ACC 610) Term: Second Semester‚ 2012-‐2013 Prepared By: Mohamed S Sultan‚ MBA
Premium Mergers and acquisitions Corporate finance Stock
Limitations of Ratios used for analysis: 1. Inflation will distort a firm’s balance sheet and a trend analysis may not give a true picture of the firm’s financial performance. 2. Different fiscal year‚ example‚ a firm may have a fiscal year that ends on June 30‚ whereas another company in the same industry may have a fiscal year ends on 31 . 3. Financial analysis is performed on historical data mainly for the purpose of forecasting future performance. The historical relationships may not continue
Premium Economics Financial ratio Finance
as a result of insufficient stimulation. This paper seeks to critically analyse and creatively formulize the reasons why SME’s go international. The review revealed that export stimulation stems from a variety of factors such as time‚ spatial and industry context. Also this article
Premium Management Strategic management Marketing
The arms limitations talks played a big role in reducing tensions during the Cold war for example the United States and the USSR‚ helped relieve the public about an outbreak of a nuclear war and significantly reduced the number of nuclear weapons in the world. The arms limitation talks reduced tension during the Cold War by promoting the idea of peace. The first talks about arms limitations tried to reduce tensions between the United States and the USSR. Although these talks did not seem to be
Premium Cold War Nuclear weapon Intercontinental ballistic missile
Acas (2010) ［Online］The recruitment process Available at: http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=748 ［Accessed 28th June 2010］ CIPD (2009)［Online］Assessment centres for recruitment and selection Available at: http://www.cipd.co.uk/subjects/recruitmen/selectn/asscentre.htm?IsSrchRes=1 ［Accessed 28th June 2010］ CIPD (2010)［Online］Selection interviewing Available at: http://www.cipd.co.uk/subjects/recruitmen/selectn/selnintvg.htm?IsSrchRes=1 ［Accessed 28th June 2010］ Foot‚ M. and Hook
Premium Human resource management Job interview Human resources
Introduction to Marketing Final Exam M2: Explain the limitations of marketing research used to contribute to the development of a selected organisation’s marketing plan. There are 3 types of limitations of market research. These are; * Cost effectiveness of data collection * Reliability of data collected * validity of data collected Costly: Marketing research is a costly affair. It needs a lot of money to conduct various market research activities. Huge funds are required
Premium Marketing research Marketing Scientific method
new media technologies may have little impact on politics‚ even change politics for the worse. It has little effect on civic engagement. New media technologies increased political knowledge among citizens already interested in politics‚ for users who are not‚ public sphere online is meaningless. Social media activists are more democratic‚ more knowledgeable about current political events and also somewhat more understanding of anti-government sentiment. As the new media technologies provide a platform
Premium Twitter Facebook Social network service
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is used widely by SMEs as well as the large organizations. It helps SMEs by keeping them updated with the latest technology and stay ahead of the business landscape. For a large organization‚ there is every need to integrate the various departments so that there is an integrated view of core business processes‚ often in real-time‚ using common databases maintained by a database management system. An ERP solution can improve a company’s
Premium Management Strategic management Decision theory