1) ACCT 11059 – Using Accounting For Decision Making Prepared By Lingdi Fu (s0210541) Lecturer & Tutor’s Name: Mitch Hsu Due Date: Saturday‚ 4th August 2012‚ 11:00 PM Step1 During carefully and thoughtfully read through the firm’s latest annual report. We can find the company is called GR Engineering Services. It is an Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) listed public company located in 183 Great Eastern Highway‚ Belmont. The principle activities of the company is providing high quality
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act created the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) to assume the responsibility of overseeing the auditors of public companies. The PCAOB is a private-sector‚ non-profit corporation. It was established to "protect the interests of investors and further the public interests in the preparation of informative‚ fair‚ and independent audit reports". (The PCAOB) Although the PCAOB is a private sector organization‚ it has many government-like regulatory functions. The PCAOB
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To: The Framework Company After the release of the SFAC No. 8‚ your definition of materiality has been brought into question. In the past‚ your rule for determining materiality was based solely on quantitative data‚ where an event was only material if its impact was more than a given percentage of the income statement amounts. Using a quantitative measure is effective because it keeps the process objective; however there are also times when the quantitative difference doesn’t adequately
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effectively to the company ’s benefit. There are two challenges that one faces in attempting to be data literate. The first challenge is deciding what information to use‚ what is should be used for and how it should be used. The second challenge is how to test and put the data together with the existing information system to make them effective in a company ’s decision process. The most difficult challenge will be bringing the computer based data processing and the accounting system together to
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Silver is a very ductile and malleable metal used for thousands of years utensils‚ for trade‚ and as the basis for many monetary systems. Its value as a precious metal was long considered second only to gold. In Ancient Egypt and Medieval Europe‚ it was often more valuable than gold. Silver is currently about 1/50th the price of gold by mass‚ and 70 times more valuable than copper. Silver did once trade at 1/6th to 1/12th the price of gold‚ however‚ the discovery of great silver deposits in the
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If a company earns net income of $25 million in Year 8‚ has 10 million shares of stock‚ pays a dividend of $1.00 per share‚ and has annual interest costs of $10 million‚ then | | |[pic]|[pic]|the company would have Year 8 earnings per share of $1.50. | | |[pic]| | |[pic]|[pic]|the company’s retained earnings for
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capitalize the interest costs associated with the construction of your new manufacturing facility‚ and if you are obligated to do so. After extensive research‚ and by examining the procedures for capitalizing interest laid out by the Federal Accounting Services Board (FASB)‚ ARC can capitalize the interest‚ and is most likely required to do so. Capitalization of Interest Interest on an asset must meet various criteria to be eligible for capitalization. First‚ the asset must require a period
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The major appliance market is a very competitive environment. Frigidaire has four major competitors in the United States: Whirlpool‚ General Electric‚ Maytag and Amana. These manufacturers produce the products that would be competing with the front load washing machine. These products would include traditional top loading or vertical axis machines. In addition‚ Maytag and Amana has announced plans to introduce their own versions of horizontal machines‚ although Maytag’s was not expected to be front
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Space Age Furniture Company The Space Age Furniture Company manufactures tables and cabinets to hold microwave ovens and portable televisions. These products are made in various sizes and with various features‚ but all follow basically the same production and assembly operations. However‚ two of these products—the Saturn microwave stand and the Gemini TV stand—have a part (no. 3079) that requires machining on a special lathe used only for making that part. At present the machine is run by Ed Szewczak
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1.0 Introduction Standard Soap Corp. (SSC) is a $ 30-35 million company producing 5‚000 different varieties of bar soap. SSC has four broad production processes– transformation of raw materials‚ drying of bulk soap‚ production of soap batches and packaging. However‚ there are underlying complexities involving up to 5000 different paths during these production processes. This poses a potential challenge for the management to efficiently handle the underlying information base. In addition
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