Accounting Theory – Seminar 2 Presentation Briefly describe the accounting profession/What is the role of accountants? Accountants analyse costs of operations‚ products‚ and special projects. Compute taxes owed‚ prepare tax returns. Organize and maintain financial records. Suggest ways to reduce costs‚ enhance revenues and improve profits‚ Improve businesses efficiency. Critically discuss the role of the CFO Andy Fastow in the ENRON scandal Fastow created hundreds/ of "special-purpose entities"–off
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Culture – the way of life of a people. Shared & human-created strategies for adapting & responding to one’s surroundings (people & creatures) Can be as vast as US culture or smaller like a family or school Blueprint that guides & determines behavior Cultures are learned at birth & passed down from generation to generation. Material culture –natural & human-created objects which people have assigned a name to & attached a meaning. iPods‚ cars‚ clothing‚ tattoos‚ trees‚ diamonds offers clues
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Auditing Chapter 2 and 3 Chapter MC 2 2.26 - 2.29 Q 65‚ 70(I) 2.26) Which of the following categories of principles is most closely related to gathering audit evidence? A. Performance 2.27) Which of the following is not related to ethical requirements of auditors? D. professional judgment 2.28) One of an accounting firm’s basic objectives is to provide professional services that conform to professional standards. Reasonable assurance of the achieving this objective can be obtained by the
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Chapter 2 The Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Map | | ------------------------------------------------- QUESTIONS 2-1 Financial performance measures‚ such as operating income and return on investment‚ indicate whether the company’s strategy and its implementation are increasing shareholder value. However‚ financial measures tend to be lagging indicators of the strategy. Firms monitor nonfinancial measures to understand whether they are building or destroying their capabilities—with customers
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Task 2 – Explain the principles off effective communication By Zain Riasat General communication skills “Understanding cultural difference‚ finding ways to engage an audience and being able to adapt to a situation.” Wherever you go you are bound to come across cultural differences‚ these can range from variety of things such as the language people use (e.g. English people say "petrol" compared to Americans who say "gasoline") to the way they greet each other (English & Americans shake hands
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Q1. What are the ethical and legal issues? A1. The ethical issue is that Kent has made a game that has both a lot of violence and nudity in it. He knows that the game would be marketing sex‚ violence‚ and gambling; and he knows that all three are bad to be imbedded into a teenagers mind. When he talks to Brad about these at first he does not understand why Kent has changed his mind about this game that will make the company lots of money. Then some legal issues come into play when Brad decided
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MONASH UNIVERSITY SEMSTER 1 – YEAR 2011 AFW 3040 – ACCOUNTING THEORY BY: SARAH WONG Assignment 2 – 1500-word Essay Topic: How social and environmental reporting practices undertaken by companies highlight the limitations of the conceptual framework. Introduction: Accountancy has always been concerned with mainly the accountability of directors to shareholders and companies to creditors. As companies grow larger and become more integrated with the society‚ this call for a focus towards sustainability
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The role of accounting is to allow business owners to make informative decisions. The main objectives of accounting are to maintain a record of business transactions‚ calculate profit and loss and depiction of financial position. Recording business transactions accurately is essential in accounting. If proper and complete records are kept‚ it will make it easier to find and correct any errors made. Different officials can also use records for different decision-making purposes. A balance sheet
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Solution sto Chapter 2 Problems Accounting Judgements Questions 1. Accounting principles include: (a) Underlying assumptions – basic underlying assumptions that make accounting possible. (b) Qualitative criteria – standards to judge policy choices in conjunction with reporting objectives. (c) Measurement methods – ways to measure results and financial position. 2. The importance of establishing a document such as the IASB’s Framework is that this material helps standard setters when
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Higher National Certificate Mechanical Principles Assignment Two Carl Jones Table of Contents Question 1a) 5 Q1bi) 6 Q1bii) 7 Q1biii) 10 Q1ci) 11 Q1cii) 12 Question 2a) 13 Question 3a) 15 Question 3b) 15 Question 3c) 18 Question 4a) 19 Question 4bi) 19 Question 4bii) 20 Question 4ci) 21 Question 4cii) 21 Graph 21 Question 4ciii) 22 Question 4civ) 22 Question 4d) 23 Question 1a) Hoop Stress (circumferential stress) is simply the stress due to radial pressure. The circumferential
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