In a constructionist perspective Abstract This essay addresses the relationship between professional ethics and financial statement disclosure. The public should change its view on the objectivity of accounting profession because in no means can anyone be absolutely objective. The reason to this will be articulated thoroughly in the essay. Then how to maximize relative objectivity is discussed and the conclusion is that being honest and credible as the
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Introduction to Accounting Coursework Ratio Analysis of Tesco and Sainsbury Introduction This report details the results of a ratio analysis of two of the largest retailers in the UK: Sainsbury and Tesco based on their audited financial statements for the financial years ending 2011‚ 2012‚ and 2013. The two companies are compared with each other based on their profitability and liquidity ratios. This report then critically interprets the results of the ratio analysis calculations and then discusses
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AGENCY THEORY AND FIRM PERFORMANCE By Alex Ganas Department of M.B.A At the university of I.S.T / L.S.B.U There has been considerable discussion of managerial agency and firm performance problems that arise from the separation of ownership and control. Economists have long been concerned with the incentive problems that arise when decision making in a firm is the province of managers who are not the firm ’s security holders. The adoption of the agency logic increased during
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1. Introduction The system for blocking in and regulation annual accounts in France is more different than in UK. During the reign of Louis XIV‚ French accounting was first introduced as a compulsory feature of business in 1673 by a law (known as the Savary Order) that required traders to maintain daybooks of their business transactions and prepare an annual list of assets. The Ordonnance de Colbert was the first regulation that imposes a form of accountability. It required traders to register
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Accounting Concepts Underlying Assumptions‚ Principles‚ and Conventions Assumptions The following are basic financial accounting assumptions: Separate entity assumption - the business is an entity that is separate and distinct from its owners‚ so that the finances of the firm are not co-mingled with the finances of the owners. • Going concern assumption - the business is going to be operating for the foreseeable future. Stable monetary unit assumption - e.g. the U.S. dollar • Fixed
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which in this case is regarded as “positive income elasticity.” Conversely‚ the quantity demanded for inferior goods decreases when income increases and this is referred to as “negative income elasticity.” Meanwhile‚ there are some normal goods which are taken as necessities which will have small income elasticity because these goods are necessary to our lives and people still need them though the income might be low (Mike‚ 2013‚ 19:10). The income elasticity is very important to firms in that it
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Ethics in Accounting Mistakes Julia Brewer Acct-530-61365 March 9‚ 2014 The following report will discuss Case 1-8 A Faulty budget included in chapter one of the text book Ethical Obligations and Decision Making in Accounting: Text and Cases‚ 2nd Edition. In this case‚ Jackson Daniels is an accountant for Lynchberg Manufacturing and had been employed there since graduating college a couple years back. Daniels was responsible for creating the sales budget for sales of machines manufactured by
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Marketing 5805 Firm Analysis Project Firm: Daniel Memorial‚ Inc. Description: Daniel is a nonprofit organization serving at-risk youth from the community through a wide variety of programs. Some of the services offered include: therapeutic foster homes‚ independent living skills and housing for homeless youth‚ juvenile dependency intervention‚ residential treatment‚ and community based treatment through the dependency court system which is contracted through the Department of Children and Families
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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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International Journal of Trade‚ Economics and Finance‚ Vol. 2‚ No. 6‚ December 2011 Use or Abuse of Creative Accounting Techniques Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah‚ Safdar Butt‚ and Yasir Bin Tariq India who are always short of this product. It takes three years for a cement plant to start production. By the time the new plants came into production in late nineties‚ the country’s economic scenario had changed. The government had no money for development‚ the economy was generally in recession‚ and
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