A company’s fiscal year must correspond to the calendar year. T154. Accounting periods should be of equal length to facilitate comparison between periods. T155. When there is no direct connection between revenues and costs‚ the costs are systematically allocated among the periods benefitted. T156. Applying accrual accounting results in a more accurate measurement of profit for the period than does the cash basis of accounting. F157. Adjusting entries affect cash flows in the current period. T158
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ACC 307: Cost Accounting Winter 2013 Practice Problems Chapter 8 Problem 1: Different management levels in Bates‚ Inc.‚ require varying degrees of managerial accounting information. Because of the need to comply with the managers’ requests‚ four different variances for manufacturing overhead are computed each month. The information for the September overhead expenditures is as follows: Budgeted output units 3‚200 units Budgeted fixed manufacturing overhead $20‚000 Budgeted
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fall-out of Accounting Period concept. This concept requires that expenses incurred for a particular accounting period should be reckoned in the same period‚ irrespective of the fact whether these expenses have been paid in cash or not in that year. The same holds true for revenues‚ i.e.‚ revenues earned in a specific accounting period are construed as incomes of the same period‚ irrespective of their receipts. This concept is also known as the accrual theory of accounting or accrual accounting. This
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Running Head: Current and Noncurrent Assets Paper Current and Noncurrent Assets Paper <Name> ACC/400 – Week One Instructor’s Name: <Name> <Date> Introduction Current and non-current assets are important items to evaluate a balance sheet. The following paper evaluates the meaning and differences between current and non-current assets. In addition to that‚ the paper will describe the order of liquidity and its application in a balance sheet. A company’s balance sheet includes
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1.. A company earned $3‚960 in net income for October. Its net sales for October were $22‚000. Its profit margin is: 1.8%. 18%. 180%. 556%. $18‚040 2. On June 30 of the current calendar year‚ Apricot Co. paid $8‚200 cash for management services to be performed over a two-year period. Apricot follows a policy of recording all prepaid expenses to asset accounts at the time of cash payment. The adjusting entry on December 31 for Apricot would include: A debit to an
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com. OVERSTOCK.COM: UNUSUAL/CONFLICTING ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES IMPACT Overstock.com has recently received negative publicity because of some decisions regarding GAAP‚ internal accounting policies and their relationship with external auditors that has caused the company to have to restate their published financial statements going back to 2008. In their 2010 10K report on page 19 it is stated that "We lacked a sufficient number of accounting professionals with the necessary knowledge‚ experience
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This archive ACC 300 Entire Course includes following files: ACC 300 Week 1 - Individual Assignment - Chapter Two - Brief Exercises.doc ACC 300 Week 2 - Learning Team Assignment.xlsx ACC 300 week 2 dqs.doc ACC 300 Week 2 Individual Assignment Accounting Equation paper.docx ACC 300 Week 2 Individual Problem Set P1-3A and P3-5A.doc ACC 300 Week 3 - Individual Assignment Part I.xlsx ACC 300 Week 3 - Individual Assignment Part III.xlsx ACC 300 Week 3 - Individual Assignment
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http://www.homeworkmarket.com/content/acc-exam 1. Which of the following situations best describes a business combination to be accounted for as a statutory merger? Both companies in a combination continue to operate as separate‚ but related‚ legal entities. Only one of the combining companies survives and the other loses its separate identity. Two companies combine to form a new third company‚ and the original two companies are dissolved. One company
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E14-4 (Entries for Bond Transactions—Straight-Line) Foreman Company issued $800‚000 of 10%‚ 20-year bonds on January 1‚ 2011‚ at 102. Interest is payable semiannually on July 1 and January 1. Foreman Company uses the straight-line method of amortization for bond premium or discount. Instructions: Prepare the journal entries to record the following. a. The issuance of the bonds. b. The payment of interest and the related amortization on July 1‚ 2011. c. The accrual of interest and the related
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to measure up to the power of mainframes with small cost outlays. The accounting practices at Carlton normally permit revenue recognition after the shipment of the computer systems. Peale‚ Gower and Quill‚ Carlton’s auditors‚ are worried about the accounting practices regarding revenue recognition of certain transactions during the last quarter of 20X1. They are also worried about the adverse effects of such accounting on the company’s quality of earnings and thereby on its planned public stock
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