& 3 Top of Form Question 1 1. Below is the common equity section (in millions) of Teweles Technology’s last two year-end balance sheets: 2009 2008 Common stock $2‚000 $1‚000 Retained earnings 2‚000 2‚340 Total common equity $4‚000 $3‚340 Teweles has never paid a dividend to its common stockholders. Which of the following statements is
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Catherine Gamero 4/26/12 Week One Discussion Questions • What are the four basic financial statements? What is the primary purpose of each of the four basic financial statements? In your opinion‚ which financial statement is the most important? Explain why. The four basic financial statements are the balance sheet‚ income statement‚ statement of retained earnings‚ and statement of cash flows. The balance sheet shows what it owes and owns. Income statement shows how the company did during
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HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING Accounting has a history that is usually discussed in terms of one seminal event- the invention and dissemination of the double entry bookkeeping processes. Paul Garner and Atsuo Tsuji (1995) report that the first printed treatise of bookkeeping in the world is the Summa de Arithemetica‚ Geometria‚ Proportioni et Proportionalita written by Luca Pacioli. The treatise was published in Venice in 1494‚ and was reprinted at Toscolano in 1523. This work is one of the most important
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between accrual-basis accounting and cash-basis accounting? The variation between accrual basis accounting and cash basis accounting‚ is how cash is documented. Cash basis is an accounting basis that is used when expenses and revenue are paid out or received. This is when the transaction will be recorded. In accrual-basis accounting‚ transactions are recorded when they actually happen. Payment does not need to be made for the transaction to be recognized in accrual-basis accounting unlike cash-basis
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service‚ manufacturing or trading‚ require cost accounting to track their activities.[1] Cost accounting has long been used to help managers understand the costs of running a business. Modern cost accounting originated during the industrial revolution‚ when the complexities of running a large scale business led to the development of systems for recording and tracking costs to help business owners and managers make decisions. In the early industrial age‚ most of the costs incurred by a business were what
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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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sheet‚ Income statement‚ and Financial statement. Managers are the most preferred user; they can access to all kind of documents that they required‚ because they have to make strategic decisions about the development of the firm and they have to forecast the future strategies. Other user have different possibility to reach information‚ and this depends on the type of users‚ and on the needs of the firm. For examples‚ if the firm needs some financing‚ sometimes banks and investors ask for some additional
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Written Economic Debate The crisis of obesity increases the rate of disease and fatality in America. Statistics have found that two-thirds of Americans are obese or‚ at the least‚ overweight. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have ranked obesity as the number one health risk facing America. One-eighth of deaths in this nation are directly attributed to obesity‚ which it is important to remember is entirely preventable. One of the biggest issues that stem from the decline of our
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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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professional conduct is clear that an accountant should follow all the six principles so that a healthy work environment could be created in the interest of the company‚ society and nation. The second discussion is focused on evaluation of ethicality of accounting activities. Manipulating the financial statements for personal interest or for loyalty towards company or its executives is unethical and the person responsible for such act will be punishable. Misstatement of financial statements is ethically wrong
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