Task one‚ P1. The Main Purpose of Accounting Keeping track of transactions and recording revenue and expenses are an important process‚ often assigned to an accounting department or a financial manager. Accounting allows companies to provide reports and insights needed to make sound financial decisions. The main purpose of accounting is to identify and record all activities of the income and the outcome that will affect the organisation financially. All activities‚ including purchases‚ sales
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The Role of the Financial Manager Paper The Role of the Financial Manager The role of the financial is to maximize a shareholder ’s value. A shareholders ’ wealth is represented by the market price of a firm ’s common stock. The financial manager should seek to maximize the present value of the expected future returns to the owners of the firm. In an efficient market‚ a financial manager maximizes stock prices and identifies and implements projects that add value to the firm (i.e. projects
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3/13/01 9:40 M Page 9 PART I Purpose of Cost Accounting 9 CH01_Bragg_36794 3/13/01 9:40 M Page 10 CH01_Bragg_36794 3/13/01 9:40 M Page 11 CHAPTER 1 Role of Cost Accounting When properly implemented‚ the cost accounting function can have a pervasive influence in the modern corporation. Unfortunately‚ it is not always properly implemented because management often is not completely aware of all the uses to which the cost accounting function can be put. This chapter describes
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Financial accounting is one kind of accounting different from the management accounting in the accounting system. As management accounting is for “internal” whereas financial accounting is for “external”. The following is a detailed explanation and analysis of the major objective and role of financial accounting. The purpose of financial accounting is to measure the performance of the entity and therefore provides the financial information to different stakeholders. Stakeholders will have their
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Financial Reporting Accurate financial reporting is paramount to the establishment of a level playing field for businesses. It also aids in analyzing trends in business and the economy. The first part of the research paper should outline the different offices and bureaus of financial reporting and why they are significant. The second part of the research paper will present some positive and negative examples of financial reporting results and offer analysis about them. These examples can incorporate
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I Brief Contents 3 Chapter 1 Introducing Financial Accounting Chapter 2 Constructing Financial Statements Chapter 3 Adjusting Accounts for Financial Statements Chapter 4 Reporting and Analyzing Cash Flows Chapter 5 Analyzing and Interpreting Financial Statements Chapter 6 Reporting and Analyzing Revenues and Receivables Chapter 7 Reporting and Analyzing Inventory Chapter 8 Reporting and Analyzing Long-Term Operating Assets
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Do Teams make better decisions than Individuals? Technology continues to bring business competitors closer together in the global market. Smart businesses are positioning themselves to take the lead by using their intellectual capital at every level of the organization. Teams of employees are crucial to the partnership of corporate leadership‚ managers‚ and employees to improve company decision making and maximize strategic business advantages. Decision making is a large part of doing business
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the Financial Manager The role of the financial manager has changed drastically during recent years. Previously‚ financial managers were seen as the stewards of the organization‚ since they were responsible to ensure the accountability of all organizational assets and to generate accurate financial reports. Today‚ their main goal is to maximize shareholder value. In order to achieve this goal‚ they have to be information managers‚ cost managers‚ controllers‚ consultants‚ and risk managers. However
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Question 1 Discuss the accounting principles and concepts that were violated in the case. Explain the appropriate accounting treatments that should be used. Accounting is a systematic recording of business transactions and statements relating to assets‚ liabilities and summarizes the financial events that occur in a business. There are certain accounting principles and concepts to preparing reports on financial statements. These accounting principles and concepts are usually referred to as
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The market crash of 2008 that plunged the world into the economic recession from which it is still reeling had many causes. One of them was mathematics. Financial investment firms had developed such complex ways of investing their clients’ money that they came to rely on arcane formulas to judge the risks they were taking on. Yet as we learned so painfully three years ago‚ those formulas‚ or models‚ are only pale reflections of the real world‚ and sometimes they can be woefully misleading. 2008
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