CHAPTER 1: ACCOUNTING AND THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Objective 1 - Use accounting vocabulary. Accounting is a system that measures business activities‚ processes that information into reports‚ and communicates the results to decision-makers. There are many users of accounting information. Individuals use accounting information to make decisions about purchases and investments and to manage their bank accounts. Businesses use accounting information to set goals for their businesses and to evaluate
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Purpose of the main financial statements Throughout the existence of a business many requests will be made for its financial statements. Financial statements are formal presentations of the flow of money into‚ through and out of a business. Financial statements are comprised of three main areas: balance sheets‚ income (profit and loss) statements and cash flow statements. Each area of a financial statement has its own purpose and provides specific information about a company’s financial stability
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Executive Summary GAAP‚ generally accepted accounting principles‚ are the rules for preparing the financial statements. There are specialized professionals FASB‚ SEC‚ AAA‚ FEI‚ IMA‚ AIMR and others for developing GAAP. There are 13 principles for preparing Financial Statement. Business Entity Principle requires business to be separated from owner of the business. Going Concern principles requires the business to assume that the business will for long time. Revenue Recognition Principle considers
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of International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) in standard setting. The IASC was issuing International Accounting Standards (IAS). So far there were forty one IAS which had been issue before IASB replaced IASC in 2001. As one of the major weaknesses of IASC was that the standards it was issuing contained many objectives thereby defeating the purpose of consistency in recognition‚ measurement and presentation of transactions. IASB intends to limit such choice of accounting treatments 1.)
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management (SCM) is a concept that has flourished in manufacturing industry‚ and it is the management of all the activities in any of the companies involved in a supply chain to provide the highest possible level of customer service at minimum cost. So‚ supply chain management links to the corporate performance tightly. This document aims to (1) reveal the strategic role that can be associated with the functions of Supply Chain Management‚ (2) analyse how it can impact on the performance of organisation
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PART 4 Long-Term Financial Decisions CHAPTERS IN THIS PART 11 12 13 The Cost of Capital Leverage and Capital Structure Dividend Policy INTEGRATIVE CASE 4 O’GRADY APPAREL COMPANY CHAPTER 11 The Cost of Capital INSTRUCTOR’S RESOURCES Overview This chapter introduces the student to an important financial concept‚ the cost of capital. The mechanics of computing the sources of capital-debt‚ preferred stock‚ common stock‚ and retained earnings are reviewed. The relationship between
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Mr. Herman Word Count: 490 How to Make School Better Honestly‚ I like school‚ I really do its just I get bored easily! I like being able to come and see my friends‚ learn new things‚ and not just sit at home doing nothing. We need more fun in this school. We need to like change it up‚ make it more lively not so much like a prison. A way we can make it not so boring would be‚ make the classes shorter. Instead of having about 45 minutes each class make them like 35 minutes‚ then we could have
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Keller Graduate School ACCT 593 Financial Accounting and Reporting NOVEMBER 2012 Syllabus Important Deadlines Course Start Date 10/29/2012 Course Completion Date 1/6/2013 Portal Access Deadline 02/28/13 Discussions Required on a Weekly Basis By its nature‚ the evaluation of participation in the threaded discussions will be subjective based both on quantity and quality of contributions. Not all threads will require
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The sole proprietor is an unincorporated business with one owner who pays personal income tax on profits from the business. With little government regulation‚ they are the simplest business to set up or take apart‚ making them popular among individual self-contractors or business owners. Many sole proprietors do business under their own names because creating a separate business or trade name isn’t necessary. Sole proprietorship is also known as "proprietorship". There is no separate legal entity
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#1: Moss and McAdams Accounting Firm Strayer University Bus 517 Bruce Palmer was a good guy looking to make a difference. He was lead to believe that Zeke Olds was going to be available to him throughout the project and that was not the case. He was led astray and betrayed by Ken Crosby‚ a new guy to M&M. Crosby knew if he made the case to Sands early‚ that he would get his way. The client was one that M&M was competing to get with two other big 5 accounting firms and since Crosby came
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