While reviewing the Stanford Prison Experiment (Zimbardo‚ 2012)‚ I had to stop reading to wipe my eyes dry. As a human being with compassion or other people‚ I cannot fathom how something like this was even allowed to go on for 6 days. The torture that these students were allowed to endure was atrocious. I see nothing ethical about conducting a study like this due to the fact that there are real prisons with real prisoners that could have been interviewed and studied rather than traumatizing people
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Chapter 5 Accounting for Merchandising Operations Chapter Summary Merchandising Operations • A merchandising company is an enterprise that buys and sells goods to earn a profit. • Measuring net income for a merchandising company is the same as for a service company through matching of expenses with revenues. • In a merchandising company‚ the primary source of revenue is the sale of merchandise‚ which is called sales revenue or sales. • Expenses for merchandising
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world to strongly advocate harmonization of accounting. The important reasons which necessitate harmonization of accounting practices are well contained in the observation made by Saudagaran. “While the initial efforts at harmonization were mainly championed by political bodies and professional accounting organizations‚ current pressures to harmonize are driven by investor groups who use financial statements‚ multinational companies which prepare financial statements‚ regulators who monitor capital
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Prior to the evolution of computer software and eventually to the creation of electronic spreadsheets‚ accountants relied heavily on manual calculations for financial reports‚ budgetary projections‚ incomplete records accounting ect. As Ballantine explains‚ “much valuable time had been spent on repetitive calculations [...] if one or more input values were altered and the entire worksheet had to be recalculated manually.” (1991‚ p.204). Today the same logic behind manual worksheets apply but with
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Markets and Financial Intermediation Allen‚ F.‚ and Gale‚ D. 1999. Diversity of opinion and financing of new technologies. Journal of Financial Intermediation 8 (January–April): 1–22. Bannister‚ J. W.‚ and Newman‚ Harry A. 1996. Accrual usage to manage earnings towards financial forecasts Barnea‚ A.; Ronen‚ J.; and Sadan‚ S. 1975. The implementation of accounting objectives: An application to extraordinary items Beidlerman‚ C. R. 1973. Income smoothing: The role of management. Accounting Review 48 (October):
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The lecture last night discussed accrual accounting concepts such as timing issues‚ and the basics of adjusting entries. The discussion went into more detail on periodicity assumption and how accounting divides the economic life of a business into artificial time periods. These time periods are generally a month‚ a quarter‚ or a year‚ now whether it is a fiscal year or a calendar year that is determined by the company itself. The lecture then reviews the revenue recognition principle which expects
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issues surrounding stock-based compensation. • Understand how to account for stock-based compensation and how the activity is presented in the financial statements. • Read and understand footnotes to the financial statements concerning stock-based compensation. • Explain the financial statement tax effects of stock-based compensation. Refer to the 2007 financial statements of Xilinx‚ Inc.‚ and Note 3‚ Stock-Based Compensation. Note: following Xilinx’s convention‚ the case refers to the year ended March
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Nature of Accounting and the Accounting Standard Background Accounting is an important part for business and it is dubbed “language” of business activities conducted by firms. People think it is used to communicate business transactions per se to all stakeholders. However‚ some people argue that the functions of accounting are not that easy. Except the communication tool‚ accounting acts as many other difference roles in business. When doing accounting‚ different standard may be used. There are
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environments with a significant exploratory element (e.g.‚ research and development)‚ these stages may be supplemented with decision points (go/no go decisions) at which the project ’s continuation is debated and decided. Most projects have four or five phases‚ but some have nine or more. Even within a single application area there can be significant variations—one organization’s software development life cycle may have a single
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Comparing Accounting Software Programs to Manual Accounting Manual accounting uses several paper ledgers to record financial transactions. It is very time consuming to record each single transaction onto paper‚ being very cautious not to make an error. There are several ledgers for each part of the accounting system‚ such as accounts payable‚ accounts receivable‚ and revenue accounts. Combining these ledgers into one general ledger‚ provide the balance for each ledger. The general ledger
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