ACCOUNTING ENVIRONMENT Learning Outcomes At the end of this chapter the students should be able to: Explain the meaning and purpose of accounting Describe the role of accounting as a information system Describe why accounting is considered as the language of business Assess the impact of external environmental factors on accounting Introduction Accounting has evolved and emerged as most other fields of human activity in response to the social and economic needs of society
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Financial accounting reports are prepared for the use of external parties such as shareholders and creditors‚ whereas managerial accounting reports are prepared for managers inside the organization. This contrast in basic orientation results in a number of major differences between financial and managerial accounting‚ even though both financial and managerial accounting often rely on the same underlying financial data. In addition to the to the differences in who the reports are prepared for
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1.Managerial accounting vs financial accounting Managerial accounting information system is an information system that produces outputs using inputs and processes needed to satisfy specific managerial objectives. How do management accounting and financial accounting differ? Management Accounting Financial Accounting 1. Internally focused
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CHAPTER 1 DECISION MAKING AND THE ROLE OF THE ACCOUNTANT DISCUSSION QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS 1. ‘Accounting is irrelevant in decision making because the information it provides relates only to the past.’ Discuss. Accounting is relevant to the decision-making process as it helps provide financial information as to the most efficient use of available economic resources. Although accounting provides financial information based on past financial transactions‚ it is useful in giving details on how efficiently
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Effect of Applying Fair Value on the Financial Statements of UK Leading Companies By Bassam Kazmouz 0948799 Supervisor Dr Robert Wearing September 2010 Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE (MSC) www.abahe.co.uk Arab British Academy for Higher Education TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction ........................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Overview
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should: a. review the trend of working capital for several years. b. calculate the company’s ROI for the most recent year. c. review the trend of the company’s ROI for several years. d. compare the company’s ROI for the most recent year with the industry average ROI for the most recent year. 3. A potential creditor’s judgment about granting credit would be most influenced by the potential customer’s: a. current ratio at the end of the prior fiscal year. b. most recent acid-test
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Accounting Ethics Accounting Ethics‚ Second Edition. Ronald Duska‚ Brenda Shay Duska‚ and Julie Ragatz © 2011 John Wiley & Sons‚ Ltd. Published 2011 by John Wiley & Sons‚ Ltd. ISBN: 978-1-405-19613-0 Foundations of Business Ethics Series editors: W. Michael Hoffman and Robert E. Frederick Written by an assembly of the most distinguished figures in business ethics‚ the Foundations of Business Ethics series aims to explain and assess the fundamental issues that motivate interest in each of
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MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING 1. The group is required to undertake a project on a management accounting topic related to the course (refer attachment). The objective of the project is to provide students an opportunity to gain an in-depth knowledge of the theoretical underpinnings of one of the management accounting topics and to summarize any current articles of the topic (the chosen articles must be accepted by your lecturer). 2. The group projects may be done in groups of at most five
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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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Accountancy AC5521 Cost and Management Accounting Semester B‚ 2012-2013 Instructor: Dr. Hao ZHANG Tel: Office: Email: Office Hours: Time Venue 3442-8546 G7752 haozhang@cityu.edu.hk Wed 3:00 pm to 6: pm Thursdays (9:00 am – 11:50 am) AC1 P4701 Course Aims This course aims to provide students with: 1. 2. 3. 4. an introduction to cost and management accounting for internal reporting and decision making purposes; familiarity with cost terminology‚ and management accounting reports; the ability to apply numerical
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