IS IFRS a better Accounting Standard than US GAAP for achieving good financial reports? This research paper delivers an analysis of determining whether the International Financial Reporting Standards‚ hereafter known as IFRS‚ is a better reporting standard than the US Generally Accepted Accounting Principle (GAAP). Financial Statements have to provide high quality financial reporting information with regards to economic entities‚ primarily financial in nature‚ which are useful for economic decision
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B7252 International Accounting and Taxation Faculty Information Faculty Name: Dr. Roberto Castaneda‚ CPA Campus: Chicago Contact Information: 312-498-2028 or rcastaneda@argosy.edu Office Hours: 8AM to 8PM Mon thru Sat‚ 8AM to 1PM Sun Short Faculty Bio: ABOUT the PROFESSOR Roberto Castaneda received his graduate degree (DBA) in Accounting from Argosy University; (MM/MBA) in Marketing and Finance from Northwestern University‚ and his undergraduate degree in Accounting and Marketing from DePaul
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Listen here little Billy. Let me tell you how we gained our independence 20 years ago from Belgium in 1960‚ and how it still impacts our lives today. As well as how I‚ Joseph Kasavubu‚ your grandfather helped to liberate our country. Let me start with how we gained our independence in the first place. It all started in the late 1880’s when King Leopold II took personal control of us for his own gains. Of course none of us Congolese were happy when Leopold took control of us‚ especially because
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CHAPTER 9: THE STRATEGIC GAINS FROM HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION AND DIVERSIFICATION Work‚ itself‚ is not organised as it used to be. Organisations are not now drawn as pyramids of boxes. [They] now have circles and amoeba-like blobs where boxes used to be. It isn’t even clear where the organisation begins and ends‚ with customers‚ suppliers and allied organisations linked into a varying ‘network organisation? Charles Handy‚ The Empty Raincoat (1994) The acid test of competitive success is the ability
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INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING Sources: 1) Financial knowledge enables central control to determine what is happening in different subsidiaries. That enable the integration and control of subsidiaries by the central control. (Belkauoi‚ 1991) 2) Management accounting’ involvement in currency management is also important as the fluctuations in the exchange rates can distort the financial results of the subsidiaries. (Eiteman‚ Stonehill and Moffet‚ 1992). 3) Management accounting is a
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International Accounting Case 1-2 1. An individual investor might want to invest in an international growth fund so that they can diversify their assets into mutual funds that invest in the stock of foreign companies instead of companies that are only in one country. 2. Risks common to both domestic and international funds: a. Investment style risk - the chance that returns from non-U.S. growth stocks and small- and mid-cap stocks‚ will trail returns from the overall domestic stock
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What I hope to gain from College Cardenas 1 College is and has always been one of my biggest accomplishments growing up. My mother was the kind who often spoke about college on a constant basis and about sacrificing to become someone for the near future. Nonetheless‚ it was the main reason we left our home country‚ Cuba. There were many different aspirations that I wanted I to gain by the time I was done with college
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reporting throughout the world has differed widely. The International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation (IASCF) is committed to developing‚ in the public interest‚ a single set of high quality‚ understandable and enforceable global accounting standards that require transparent and comparable information in general purpose financial statements. The various pronouncements of the IASCF are sometimes collectively referred to as International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) GAAP. Required:
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The Third Accounting History International Congress (Siena‚ Italy‚ September 17-19‚ 2003) The Historical Evolution of the Portuguese Management Accounting Literature José Manuel de Matos Carvalho (jcarvalho@iscac.pt) Maria de Fátima Travassos Conde (fconde@iscac.pt) Rosa Maria Correia Nunes (rnunes@iscac.pt) ISCA de Coimbra - Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Quinta Agrícola Tel. (351) 239 802 013 Bencanta 3040-316 Coimbra Portugal Fax (351) 239 445 445 E-mail jcarvalho@iscac.pt 1 THE
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drugs which are filled with a mix of amphetamine salts are commonly prescribed for people who have been diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are now being abused‚ becoming cognitive enhancers. In Margaret Talbot’s article “From Brain Gain: The Underground World of “Neuroenhancing” Drugs” Talbot uses hyperbole‚ basic diction‚ examples‚ and statistical evidence to show how neuroenhancing drugs are being abused by people who want an academic aid. In her writing‚ Margaret starts out
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