Accounting is the financial information system that provides these insights. In short‚ to understand your organization‚ you have to know the numbers. Accounting consists of three basic activities—it identifies‚ records‚ and communicates the economic events of an organization to interested users. You cannot earn a living‚ spend money‚ buy on credit‚ make an investment‚ or pay taxes without receiving‚ using‚ or dispensing financial information. Good decision making depends on good information
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Vertical Integration Vertical Integration deals with the degree to which a firm owns its upstream suppliers and its downstream buyers. When a firm becomes vertically integrated it means that it has incorporated all the aspects of the supply chain including manufacturing‚ distribution‚ warehousing‚ and even retailing. Specifically there are two types of vertical integration‚ backwards and forward integration. Backward or upstream integration is when a firm takes command of a function that its suppliers
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Manual and IT-Based Sales Accounting System Risks Copy Right: Anthony Butka Ralph Avallone Hong-Ming Yen Executive Summary Case Synopsis We meet Sally St. James of St. James Clothiers who has a retail clothing store in Tennesse. Sally has decided to abandon her manual sales entry system and convert to a more sophisticated IT-based application. As the audit engagement team we have been asked to review narratives of former years and then draft a narrative for the new system. We will address the
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Centre Number Candidate Number Name CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Level and Advanced Level ACCOUNTING Paper 2 Structured Questions 9706/02 May/June 2003 1 hour 30 minutes Candidates answer on the Question Paper. No Additional Materials are required. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your Centre number‚ candidate number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen in the spaces provided on the Question Paper
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Should the government provide free treatment or not? Counter argument: The health is the most important thing in our life! All our abilities to do anything‚ earning money‚ mental‚ physical abilities all these reflect to our health. Nowadays‚ the population of Earth is increasing and in big overcrowded cities new types of health diseases have been appeared. And treatment of patients‚ maintenance of equipment and inventorying new medicines costs a lot of money‚ that is why medical treatment
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harmonization of accounting system. Accounting Standards are the statements of code of practice of the regulatory accounting bodies that are to be observed in the preparation and presentation of financial statements. The Generally Accepted Accounting Principles is comprised of a large group of individual accounting standards. Accounting Standards in other words can be stated as rules which govern the preparation of financial statements. They are the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
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objectives and the roles of financial accounting “Accounting is an information system that identifies‚ records‚ and communicates the economic events of an organization to interested users.”1. The basic objective of accounting is to provide information to the interested users to enable them to make business decisions and “Financial statements are the primary means of communicating financial information to parties outside the business organization.”2. Moreover‚ accounting can give the essential information
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Abstract This essay briefly introduces the perceived threats of Computerized Accounting Information System and provides suggestions on how to prevent the occurrence of these potential dangers. Though the computer technology makes the accounting operation more accurate and faster‚ this still involves several threats in terms of the security and reliability of the accounting information. Fraudulent activities‚ management cheats‚ virus infection‚ costs and so forth‚ are all need precaution from the
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No-Load Mutual Funds Mutual funds can be classified into two types - Load mutual funds and No-Load mutual funds. Load funds are those funds that charge commission at the time of purchase or redemption. They can be further subdivided into (1) Front-end load funds and (2) Back-end load funds. Front-end load funds charge commission at the time of purchase and back-end load funds charge commission at the time of redemption. Large cap funds Large cap funds are those mutual funds‚ which seek capital
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CheckPoint: Accounting Information System Requirements Rose Ann Rhone XACC/210C 09/06/2013 Donna Rosentrater CheckPoint: Accounting Information System Requirements In order to develop an accounting information system successfully the process has to broken up into phases. The phases are the system development life cycle (SDLC) which consists of the Planning and Investigation‚ Analysis‚ Design‚ Implementation‚ Follow-up‚ and Maintenance phases. The planning and investigation phase requires
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