Accounting Research Vol. 49 No. 3 June 2011 Printed in U.S.A. Earnings Quality Based on Corporate Investment Decisions FENG LI∗ Received 25 July 2007; accepted 20 September 2010 ABSTRACT In this paper‚ I examine a new approach for measuring earnings quality‚ defined as the closeness of reported earnings to “permanent earnings‚” based on firm decisions with regard to capital and labor investments. Specifically‚ I measure earnings quality as the contemporaneous association between changes in
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MARGINAL COSTING Introduction This paper explores the use of cost accounting information for decision-making purposes. DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS Marginal cost: This is the cost of a unit of a product or service‚ which would be avoided if that unit or service was not produced or provided Break-even point: This is the volume of sales where there is neither profit nor loss. 1 9 6 COST ACCOUNTING S T U D Y T E X T Margin of safety: This is the excess of sales over the break-even volume in
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Statement: Tax cuts Increase economic activity‚ increase jobs and hence helps in increasing government revenue. Tax cuts stimulates economic activity: Firstly‚ Tax cuts on businesses and individuals give incentives for work and lead to increased savings and investment thus stimulating economic activities. People starts to work more hours and want to make more money as the taxes are quite low and they can get most of their profit in their own pockets. Production is increased due to tax cut on raw
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Charging Sales Tax on Internet Purchases Internet purchases should not have sales tax because internet shopping is supposed to be convenient for the consumer. After doing some research online I came to an article called the Incidental Economist. After reading I too had to agree that your average home eBay seller and other individual small business whose profit is less than 10‚000 dollars a year should not have to do the states job of pursuing a sales tax. Was not the sales tax already paid when
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Bank Results Season: HDFC Bank Q4 grows 30% PAT and Net Interest income Net interest income for the Indian Market leader in Private Banks rose to INR 43 B from INR 33 B 26% on year/year growth. As dividends from insurance have also started showing up regularly every two quarters consolidated PAT has been growing unbridled past our 30% watermark. PAT for Q4 ended up at INR 18.90 B‚ a substantial shoring up of business performance in the last six quarters when it began a series at a strong but smaller
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William Pittman 10/14/14 Writing COMP – Han To Tax or not To Tax Two authors by the names of Paul Krugman and Fred E. Foldvary have varying opinions on the topic of taxing the rich. The debate they’re writing about is whether or not the US should increase the tax burden on the rich. Foldvary states in his “The Evil of Taxing the Rich” article that there are a lot of negative affects that would come along with taxing the rich. Mainly‚ he says the rich are paying a much larger percentage of federal
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the Notion of Juridical Interest An interest may be defined as “the object of any human desire and the object of such desire must be distinguished from the thing in respect of which the desire is entertained” The notion of juridical interest links the substantive with the procedure in civil law‚ where the individual goes on with a civil action because he has a right and interest to institute the case and hopefully obtain a favourable result. Moreover‚ juridical interest forms part of the “presupposti
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of Target Costing 1 1.2 Historical Background 2 1.3 Objectives of Target Costing 3 2 Target Costing Principles 4 2.1 Price Led Costing 4 2.2 Customer Focus 4 2.3 Design Focus 5 2.4 Cross-Functional Involvement 5 2.5 Life Cycle Cost 5 3 Distinguishing Target Costing from Traditional Cost Management 6 4 Setting up a Target Costing Management 8 4.1 Fundamental Work 8 4.2 Systems of Managing Target Costing 8 4.3 Principles of Target Costing 9 4.4 Procedures of Target Costing 9 4.5 Risk
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4-1 4 Income Statement Usefulness Predicting future performance. 4-2 Evaluate past performance. Help assess the risk or uncertainty of achieving future cash flows. Income Statement Limitations Companies omit items that cannot be measured reliably. 4-3 Income is affected by the accounting methods employed. Income measurement involves judgment. Income Statement Quality of Earnings Companies have incentives to manage income to meet or
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Yaari 7). Earnings management has been a very controversial topic among business enterprises. In the accounting world‚ earnings management is increasing becoming an area of interest to many people including government regulators‚ SEC and stakeholders. Earnings management is defined as the use of accounting techniques to produce financial reports that may paint an overly positive picture of a company’s financial position (“Earnings Management” 1). Ethics and integrity are key aspects of earnings management
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