Chapter 10 Standard Costs and the Balanced Scorecard Solutions to Questions 10-1 A quantity standard indicates how much of an input should be used to make a unit of output. A price standard indicates how much the input should cost. 10-2 Ideal standards assume perfection and do not allow for any inefficiency. Thus‚ ideal standards are rarely‚ if ever‚ attained. Practical standards can be attained by employees working at a reasonable‚ though efficient pace and allow for normal breaks
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Revenue recognition is a very important component of financial accounting and reporting. The accounting principles governing revenue recognition can have a big impact on corporate accounting and the way contracts are structured with customers. As a part of ongoing discussions to converge U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)‚ some proposals to change revenue recognition have been discussed. The following will discuss revenue
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the new standards specifically. Finally in combination with the concrete background in China‚ we put forward some advices on the carrying out of the fair value in the accounting practice. [Key words] Fair Value; China new accounting standard Since January 1‚ 2007‚ the China new accounting standards will become mandatory for listed Chinese enterprises. The adoption of the new China accounting standards system brings about substantial convergence between Chinese standards and International Financial
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IAS’s and harmonising these standards with the AAS’s has had far reaching impacts. This may be due to the influences of the government‚ boards‚ corporations and regulatory bodies involved in dominating the process‚ which can be seen through a brief look at the history of the actions taken by each of these parties to change the accounting world. There are visible benefits to the parties who influenced the changes in both economical and social ways. Along with benefits for some parties comes disadvantages
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ESSAY 1 – DAVID MARQUES BENEFITS AND RISK OF THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES‚ IN PARTICULAR‚ THE COMPUTERS Nowadays interaction with computers has become an integral part of daily routine for millions of people. Whatever career you choose to follow‚ you will probably be a frequent user of computers. IT (Information Technology) has become progressively more important in our society and many jobs are changing. There are some benefits and some risks associated to news technologies‚ in particular‚ the
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Chieftain International‚ Inc. is an oil and gas exploration and production company. A recent balance sheet reported 208 million liabilities‚ all of which were short-term accounts payable. During the year‚ Chieftain expanded its holdings of oil and gas rights‚ drilled 37 new wells‚ and invested in expensive 3-D seismic technology. The company generated 19 million cash from operating activities and paid no dividends. It had a cash balance of 102 million at the end of the year. A) Name at least two
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Accounting Standards Boards Leslie Brian ACC/541 November 14‚ 2011 Delphine Agnor Wolsker Accounting Standards Boards The field of accounting is constantly evolving. This is true not only for the theory of accounting itself but also the entities that govern its theory and practice. Presently‚ the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) are faced with some of the biggest challenges to date. To understand the significance
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What Benefits are Likely to Result from an Increasing use of Computers? A computer is a device that accepts information in the form of digitalized data and manipulates it for some result based on a program or sequence of instructionson how the data is to be processed . Modern computers inherently follow the ideas of the stored program laid out by John Von Neumann in 1945 . Essentially ‚ the program is read by the computer one instruction at a time ‚ an operation is performed and the computer then
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A stakeholder is any individual or group who can affect or is affected by the actions‚ decisions‚ policies‚ practices‚ or goals of the organisation (Freeman 1984‚ 25). They have the interests in the activities of an organization and can be divided into internal and external stakeholders. In addition‚ there are different levels of stakeholders: primary and secondary. The level of stakeholders depends on the political‚ economic and social environment. Internal stakeholders are those from within the
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United States: the SEC‚ the AICPA‚ and the FASB. A separate but similar set of rules and principles govern state and local government reporting‚ as determined by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Accountants generally apply GAAP through the use of FASB pronouncements referred to as Financial Accounting Standards (FASs)‚ which are periodically published in industry bulletins. There are more than 100 FASs that have been issued over the years. They are supplemented by formal opinions and
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