ACCOUNTING-BASED EARNINGS MANAGEMENT AND REAL ACTIVITIES MANIPULATION A Dissertation Presented to The Academic Faculty by Wei Yu In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Management Georgia Institute of Technology August 2008 Copyright 2008 by Wei Yu 3327682 Copyright 2008 by Yu‚ Wei All rights reserved 2008 3327682 ACCONTING-BASED EARNINGS MANAGEMENT AND REAL ACTIVITIES MANIPULATION Approved by: Dr
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budget expresses a plan in monetary terms. It is prepared and approved prior to a particular budgeted period and explicitly may show the income‚ expenditure and the capital to be employed by organizations in achieving their goals and objectives. Budgeting control practices are then devices that organizations use to regulate their budgets. The controls are mostly comprehensive systems of budgets that aid management in carrying out its functions like planning‚ organizing‚ directing and controlling.
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purpose of attaining the objective”. Budget is a systematic plan for utilisation of all types of resources‚ at its command. It acts as a barometer of a business as it measures the success from time to time‚ against the standard set for achievement. Budgeting is a technique of formulating budgets. Characteristics of a Budget: The main characteristics of a budget are: (A) A Comprehensive Business Plan showing what the enterprise wants to achieve. (B) Prepared in Advance. (C) For a Definite Period of Time
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INTRODUCTION A budget is a plan. Budgeting is generally formalized written documents. Budgeting is the process of developing a plan‚ implementing it and attempting to control outcomes so that they confirm to or exceed the result called for by the plan. Budgeting is an element of cost accounting‚ because mush of planning related to cost the organization expects to incur. 1.1 IMPORTANCE OF BUDGETS Budgeting is important process in organization. A budget process
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Ppresident for Finance: no power to approve or disapprove‚ noreither to intervene during the presentation. Budgeting Department Main function: “keep the presentation honest” No position on budget appropriateness and efficiency King’s concerns; Increase in expenditure in the legal and industrial relation office Legal office: inefficient and getting approval easily Overall budgeting process of the Aadministrative Sstaff Ooffices Ability of the Ppresident and Eexecutive Vvice Ppresident to:
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BUDGET AND BUDGETARY CONTROL PRACTICES IN THE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION‚ KUMASI 1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Universities and colleges need to recognize that they too are businesses (Dr. Brendan Nelson‚ 2002). Investors‚ senior executives and the business community have long sought for ways to better control the companies and enterprises they run. As part of a broader micro-economic reform of the public sector‚ the higher education sector has been targeted for its perceived role for improving
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its cost standards and cost reduction targets which is determined by the Industrial Engineering department. The assignment of the department as a cost center may be inconsistent with its objectives since the department itself is not the one determining the price and selling the products. Third is how the performance of the plant managers are evaluated. Since the Plant Department is treated as a profit center‚ the plant managers’ promotion and compensation is based on their profit performance. There
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IM 15.1 Intermediate Outline: a) The objectives of budgetary planning and control system 1) To combine the ideas of all levels of management in the preparation of a budget. 2) To coordinate all the activities of the business so that each is part of an integral total. 3) To centralized control for example to control each function so that the best possible results may b obtained. 4) To decentralizes (delegate) responsibility to each manager involved. 5) To act
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CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Budgeting is the cornerstone of the management control process in nearly all organizations including government agencies. Practitioners express concerns about using budgets for planning and performance evaluation. The practitioners argue that budgets impede the allocation of organizational resources to their best uses and encourage myopic decision making and other dysfunctional budget games. They attribute these problems‚ in part‚ to traditional
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future. Determine at least two (2) compelling reasons that this company should prepare and manage a budget. Predict the two (2) most likely positive and negative financial outcomes for this company if it properly or improperly performs effective budgeting. Biomet 3I is the company I have been working for since 2007. Biomet‚ Inc. is a medical device headquartered in the Warsaw‚ Indiana business cluster. This company specializes in reconstructive products for orthopedic surgery‚ neurosurgery‚ craniomaxillofacial surgery
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