prompted some countries over the world to strongly advocate harmonization of accounting. The important reasons which necessitate harmonization of accounting practices are well contained in the observation made by Saudagaran. “While the initial efforts at harmonization were mainly championed by political bodies and professional accounting organizations‚ current pressures to harmonize are driven by investor groups who use financial statements‚ multinational companies which prepare financial statements
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← Abstract Faced with various issues of international accounting in cultural‚ economic‚ ethical and social level‚ after comparing US with China about the GAAP‚ analyzing the differences and difficulties in global accounting standard‚ it’s necessary to separate different accounting standards because of the diversification in different countries‚ it shows that accountancy professions play an important role in capital market‚ which can provide useful‚ relevant and reliable information to interested
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HealthSouth Impact on Stakeholders HealthSouth’s fraud impacted many of their stakeholders. Some of the stakeholders discussed below are the Directors and Management Team‚ external auditors Ernst & Young‚ the employees‚ the patients‚ and Chief Financial Officer Weston Smith. The Board of Directors and Management team engaged in several conflict of interest actions. They were the first company to be charged under the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002; which holds financial executives more accountable by
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Tool For Stakeholder Analysis Stakeholder Name Goals/Interests Alignment and Power* Executive directive - She does not want to damage the relationship with donors Powerful Opponent High-1 US producers of medical supply - Given the state of lax internal controls‚ some of the donors are inflating the value of their donations for tax purposes Opponent High-2 Partners of nonprofit org. in other countries + Wants to maintain their reputation and steady inflow of donations Allies
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There are many ways for a company to benefit from assessing their control procedures. Internal controls are operating practices that are established to provide reasonable assurance that specific objectives will be achieved and every employee in the organization is responsible for internal controls. Implementing internal controls will help your business reach its performance and profitability targets‚ and most importantly prevent loss of resources. Internal Controls help to ensure reliable financial
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Question 1 The ethical guidelines which accountants are obliged to follow in the conduct of their work are made to combat criticism and gain credibility by preventing fraudulent accounting. Accountants ought to be able to maintain impartiality and independence to create a clear‚ credible and unbiased audit. Hence‚ the ethical principles are considered important. This is because the work of accountants requires a high level of ethics since the financial statements prepared and verified by auditors
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Name of stakeholder What the stakeholder wants from the business How they influence the business and if there influence is successful Rank of importance Why are they important Customers They want to company to keep their prices low and have a good customer relation with each customer‚ they also want good quality products to be sold at low prices They influence the business as the customers decide what they sell and if Tesco make money or not because the customers could easily decide to change
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Question 1 Critically evaluate the need for accounting standards and the need for a set of principles on which they are based. Accounting Standards Accounting standards contain a set of rules and governing practices for the treatment of all financial transactions. The main objective of accounting standards is to establish recognition‚ measurement‚ presentation and disclosure requirements dealing with financial transactions and key events which are important in the financial statements of companies
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Accounting‚ or accountancy‚ is the measurement‚ processing and communication of financial information about economic entities. Accounting‚ which has been called the "language of business"‚ measures the results of an organization ’s economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of users including investors‚ creditors‚ management‚ and regulators. Practitioners of accounting are known as accountants. Accounting can be divided into several fields including financial accounting‚ management
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WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THE NATIONAL BROADBAND NETWORK? March 14‚ 2011 Executive Summary Governments around the world are looking for ways to stimulate their economies and many have identified high speed broadband networks as an opportunity to invest billions of dollars in an infrastructure that will net economic rewards‚ outside of the initial construction‚ for many years to come. The Australian government has chosen to take the most expensive route by rolling out a fibre optic cable network
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