of unearned revenue would be 1.Prepaid Expense - A year long insurance contract a company paid $12‚000 for at the beginning of the year. Since the insurance company owes the company service‚ the expense prepayment is recorded as an asset Journal Entries: debit Prepaid Insurance and credit Cash). 2. Unearned Revenue - A year long subscription of $12‚000 is received in advance by a magazine company. Because the company owes something‚ the unearned revenue is recorded as a liability. 3. Non-cash: These
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The fallout that accompanied the accounting scandals of the early 2000’s had an immediate impact on corporate business and accounting practices which is still being felt today. The collapse of Enron and its accounting firm Arthur Andersen‚ as well as the subsequent collapses of Worldcom and others have left a permanent mark on how corporate businesses and accounting firms are perceived and how they are regulated. It has also altered the experiences of students who are pursuing‚ or are considering
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Major changes in rules and regulations Since the Enron collapsed an array of new laws and regulations has been adopted to tighten corporate oversight. US offices were the first one to come out and implement the policies. Almost all of the firms had their headquarters in the US and they replicated their headquarters policies to a good extend in other offices around the world. Also other governments and regulatory bodies around the world came out with their country specific rules and regulations which
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Fraud Auditing and Different type of fraud Introduction Over the years‚ the role of auditors become increasingly important especially in a capitalist economy as the process of wealth creation and political stability depends heavily upon confidence in processes of accountability and how well the expected roles are being fulfilled. An auditor has the responsibility for the prevention‚ detection and reporting of fraud‚ other illegal acts and errors is one of the most controversial issues in auditing
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Warranty 61 Module XIII - Mortgage Note Payable and Note Payable to Bank Two 63 Module XIV - Working Trial Balance 66 Module XV - Audit Report 82 The following pages in this manual contain the solutions to the Biltrite Bicycles‚ Inc. audit practice case. The solutions are presented by module number. Answers to the narrative questions are presented first‚ followed by the completed working papers as solutions to those parts requiring audit working paper completion. The completed working papers
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Case 1-3 Politicalization of Accounting Standards A. These groups are put in place to help regulate the economy and to help form accounting principles that should be followed to promote and ensure accuracy and efficiency in companies across America. There was much policitalization which led to the abolishment of the APB and the formation of FASB. This was due to reasons such as the investment of tax credit in 1961 which made the APB responsible for deciding how it was to be reported. Due to the
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AUDIT EVIDENCE Audit Evidence Definition : All the information used by the auditor in arriving at the conclusions on which the audit opinion is based. This includes the information contained in the account records underlying the financial statements and other information. Additionally‚ audit evidence should be persuasive‚ rather than convincing. There are different levels of reliability of audit evidence‚ some providing more evidence than others. There are nine types of audit evidence
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Practice Exam 2 1. Short Stay Surgery uses a job costing system for all patients who have surgery. The clinic uses a normal costing system with operating hours as the allocation base. For the month of March‚ estimated total operating hours in the surgery suits were 3‚200 hours. The estimated overhead costs for the suites were $640‚000. Patient Sarah Handy was in surgery for 2.5 hours. Other costs related to Handy’s surgery include: Patient medicine $ 50
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Sunset Boards. Sunset Boards is a small company that manufactures and sells surfboards in Malibu. Tad Marks‚ the founder of the company‚ is in charge of the design and sale of the surfboards‚ but his background is in surfing‚ not business. As a result‚ the company’s financial records are not well maintained. The initial investment in Sunset Boards was provided by Tad and his friends and family. Because the initial investment was relatively small‚ and the company has made surfboards only for
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Pérez BOSTON RED SOX INTRODUCTION Boston Red Sox is a professional baseball team of United States Major League based in Boston‚ Massachusets. It belongs to the East American Division League. The New York Yankees are their traditional rivals. 1.- TEAM HISTORY The Boston Red Sox were created in 1893 as a minor league franchise in the city of Toledo‚ Ohio in the Western League. Then moved to Boston when that league became the American League in 1900. The name of Red Sox was chosen by owner
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