2009 Dear Miss McGeachin Comment to Exposure Draft Income Tax I appreciate the opportunity to comment on IASB’s Exposure Draft Income Tax. This letter expresses my personal views based on my experience with a very specific issue: deferred taxes arising from the differences that result from there being a functional currency and another currency that applies for corporate tax purposes. In most countries‚ the currency that applies for corporate tax purposes is the same as the country’s local currency
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Income statement The income statement or the profit and loss account as it is also called measures reports how much profit (wealth) has the business generated over a period of time. To measure profit the total generated revenue over a period must be identified. Revenue is a measure of inflow of economic benefits arising from the operations of the business. These benefits will either result in an increase of assets such as cash or amounts owed to the business by the customers or a decrease
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Teaching Note on How the Earnings Management Teaching Module Can Be Taught Teaching Aims of the Module The Earnings Management Teaching Module is designed to help faculty teach how companies might manipulate earnings to maximize revenues‚ minimize expenses‚ and/or create reserves by setting aside some earnings in the current period that can be released into income at a later period. The result is to overstate earnings and mislead shareholders and creditors about the success of the company
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MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING: COSTING AND BUDGETING ------------------------------------------------- Amaya Gamage BM/C/43/32 SUBMITTED TO: Mr. Anuruddha Yapa 30.07.2012 Acknowledgement I would like to express my sincere gratitude to those who helped me to finish this project on Costing and Budgeting. I have taken a lot of effort in finishing this assignment successfully. I express my heartfelt gratitude especially to our lecturer of Management Accounting: Costing and Budgeting module
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Abstract A quality of earning assessment is a tool used by analyst to determine the correlation between accounting income and economic income. The techniques to analyze accounting income and economic income include: comparing accounting principles‚ reviewing changes in accounting principles‚ analyzing discretionary and warranty expenditures‚ understanding replacement cost of assets and managements and auditors opinion of the company. A quality of earnings assessment of PepsiCo is applied to
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IMPACT OF TAX CONSIDERATION AND TRANSITORY EARNINGS ON DIVIDEND INSIDE A FIRM. By ADARAMOLA A. O. (Ph.D.) ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Dividend Relevance Theory and to determine whether a relationship exists between dividend payment and transitory earnings; given the impact of tax and other economic conditions with the objective of maximizing the present discounted value of after tax dividend. To achieve this‚ the Lintner’s models were specified to which the
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MARGINAL COSTING Introduction Even a school-going student knows that profit is a balancing figure of sales over costs‚ i.e. Sales - Cost = Profit. This knowledge is not sufficient for management for discharging the functions of planning and control‚ etc. The cost is further divided according to its behavior‚ i.e.‚ fixed cost and variable cost. The age-old equation can be written as: Sales - Cost = Profit or Sales - (Fixed cost + Variable Cost) = Profit. The relevance of segregating costs
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There are two main tax codes introduced in the article‚ the mortgage interest deduction and the annual tax credit proposed by Bowles Simpson Commission. The former one allows home owners to lower tax bills by deducting interest on home mortgages from their taxable income‚ while the latter makes the mortgage interest a refundable tax credit. It has been a controversial topic whether the mortgage interest deduction should be replaced by tax credit‚ whereas it seems the drawbacks of tax deduction have outweighed
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Differential Costing Introduction Costs are an important feature of many business decisions. In making decisions‚ it is essential to have a firm grasp of the concepts differential cost. Decisions involve choosing between alternatives. In business decisions‚ each alternative will have costs and benefits that must be compared to the costs and benefits of the other available alternatives. A difference in costs between any two alternatives is known as a differential cost. A difference in revenues
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of £254 692. Overheads were: A under-absorbed by £215 2 B over-absorbed by £4058 C under-absorbed by £4058 D over-absorbed by £215 2 3. The following data are to be used for sub-questions (i) and (ii) below: Budgeted labour hours 8500 Budgeted overheads £148 750 Actual labour hours 7928 Actual overheads £146 200 (i) Based on the data given above‚ what is the labour hour overhead absorption rate? A £17.50 per hour B £17
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