Abstract: Creative accounting is a practice of accounting following the certain rules of it‚ but it is fluctuated from the basic spirit of those rules. Creative accounting is the ‘colorful’ representation of a company’s assets‚ liabilities and income. It is basically done to attract investors. The example of ‘the half glass of water’ maybe pulled to explain the idea. If a glass is filled with water to its half volume‚ then instead of saying ‘it is half empty’‚ the creative accountants prefer
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This essay is to critically evaluate the usefulness of the accounting theory to practicing accountants today. It will provide a general assessment of information asymmetry and the fundamental problem of accounting‚ and it will also briefly discuss the normative and positive accounting theories and their usefulness to practicing accountants. After those discussions‚ it will specifically discuss the strength and limitation of positive accounting theory and assess its usefulness to practicing accountants
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NZ IAS 17 and the concept of accounting for leases has been under scrutiny recently‚ depicted by the statement‚ “Accounting for leases under NZ IAS 17 is arbitrary and obscures economic reality”. The following issues will be further examined in the following discussion; whether the current standard faithfully reflects lease arrangements and whether it is or is not consistent with the New Zealand framework. Where the statement claims ‘NZ IAS is arbitrary’‚ the issue it raises is whether the standard
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Accounting Internship “What do you want to do for the rest of your life?” was a question I was asked countless times during high school. Every time I hesitantly answered with “I want to be an Accountant”. It wasn’t until the last trimester of my Senior year that I realized I truly and undoubtedly wanted to be an Accountant. Senior year of high school I took an Entrepreneurship hub through North Iowa Area Community College. One of the requirements for the hub was to complete a 48 hour internship
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Review of Accounting Fundamentals The Accounting Equation Assets = Liabilities + Equity Equity = Contributed Capital + Retained Earnings Retained Earnings = Beginning Retained Earnings + Net Income for the Period – Dividends Net Income = Revenues – Expenses + Gains – Losses Assets ( Probable future economic benefits obtained or controlled by a particular accounting entity as a result of past transactions or events Liabilities ( Probably future sacrifices of economic benefits
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Anonymous | Managerial Accounting Career Paper | | | Managerial Accounting Career Paper What is managerial accounting? Managerial accounting provides managers with information to help control operations inside the company. Managerial accounting is sometimes called cost accounting‚ which is basically an expanded phase of general or financial accounting which provides management with the production cost‚ selling cost‚ or the cost of services that the company may provide. Managerial
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Benefits of Accounting Accounting II has proven to be a successful course to take‚ especially when entering into the business field. Accounting has many key concepts in which I feel that I have benefited from. Although at times I found myself struggling‚ I pushed through and persevered. The key concepts that I feel that will help me as I enter the business field is the ability to understand how accounts receivables and payroll affect a business. I think the hardest concepts for me in this
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9.5 Manager’s Information Advantage 9.5.1 Earnings Management 9.5.2 Controlling Earnings Management 9.6 Discussion and Summary 9.7 Agency Theory: A Bondholder-Manager Lending Contract 9.8 Implications of Agency Theory for Accounting 9.8.1 Is Two Better Than One? 9.8.2 Rigidity of Contracts 9.9 Reconciliation of Efficient Securities Market Theory with Economic Consequences 9.10 Conclusions on the Analysis of Conflict Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education Canada
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within maintaining the integrity of the profession; * Having in place a robust disciplinary system for those who fail to comply with this standards BY-Laws; * To enhance the status of members. Question 2: Briefly explain the following users of accounting information: Question 2(a): Shareholders (2marks) Answer 2(a): Any person‚ company‚ or other institution that owns at least one share in a company
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Objectives Accounting and the Business Environment 7111AFE Topic 1 1. Use accounting vocabulary. 2. Apply accounting concepts and principles to business situations. 3. Use the accounting equation to describe an organisation’s financial position. 4. Use the accounting equation to analyse business transactions. 5. Preparation of financial statements. 1-2 Objective 1 Accounting... is an information system that... Use accounting vocabulary measures business activities‚ processes information
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