THE EFFECTS OF ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS ON FINANCIAL STATEMENT 5.1 ENTITY CONCEPT The first accounting concept is entity concept. These concept shows accounts are kept for entities and not the people who own or run the company. Even in proprietorships and partnerships‚ the accounts for the business must be kept separate from those of the owners. This is because what whatever amount the company owes to others is not the liabilities of the owners. The maximum amount that the owner is going to lose
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Ethics in Accounting and Financial Decision Making Fin 324 February 5‚ 2007 Ethics in Accounting and Financial Decision Making In his article‚ "Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley. Three best practices to adopt in your organization‚" the author‚ Neil S. Lebovits‚ suggests that organizations can do several things in order to ensure their ethical health. The top three practices suggested by Lebovits are to cultivate ethical role models‚ demonstrate ethical decision-making‚ and to encourage pushback. This
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CLICK TO DOWNLOAD ACC 201 Principles of Financial Accounting Week 1 Chapter 1 and 2 Practice Exercises: 1-2‚ 1-4‚ 1-9‚ 1-12‚ 1-18‚ 2-1‚ 2-3‚ 2-19‚ 2-22‚ 2-25. Memo to Blair Complete the writing assignment‚ ATC 1-4 from Chapter 1 and submit to your instructor. Week 2 Discussion 1: Fraud Discuss in general the ethical issues when employees are tempted to defraud their employer or when companies defraud the public. What sort of situations can lead to this behavior? What are the costs of
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UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX 9 Steps of the Accounting Cycle XACC/280 1/28/2014 The nine steps of the accounting cycle helps you prepare an accurate closing trail balance. By doing these steps correctly will eliminate recording errors whether they are positive or negative. The first step is to analyze all the transactions made during the period of time the trial balance is for whether it is weekly‚ monthly or quarterly which really depends on how big is the business. The next
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SWOT analysis method and examples The SWOT analysis is an extremely useful tool for understanding and decision-making for all sorts of situations in business and organizations. SWOT is an acronym for Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities‚ Threats. Information about the origins and inventors of SWOT analysis is below. The SWOT analysis headings provide a good framework for reviewing strategy‚ position and direction of a company or business proposition‚ or any other idea. Completing a SWOT analysis
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1 1. The main purpose of financial accounting is to communicate useful financial information to decision-makers both inside and outside of the business organization. True False 2. The Canadian Business Corporations Act mandates that all incorporated companies in Canada follow IFRS. True False 3. Private companies in Canada may choose between IFRS or ASPE. True False 4. Canada has adapted its own pre-existing standards for public companies to IFRS‚ while the U.S has adopted
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as is Case 1-4 Generally Accepted Accounting Principles At the completion of the Darby Department Store audit‚ the president asks about the meaning of the phrase “in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles‚” which appears in your audit report on the management’s financial statements. He observes that the meaning of the phrase must include more than what he thinks of as “principles.” Required: a. Explain the meaning of the term accounting principles as used in the audit report
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[Enter Post Title Here] Eli Lilly’s Financing Decisions A. Common stock at December 31‚ 2001 * Authorized shares: 3‚200‚000‚000 shares * Issued shares: 1‚124‚333‚530 shares * Outstanding shares: 1‚123.348‚749 shares Preferred stock at December 31‚ 2001 * Authorized shares: 5‚000‚000 shares B. In December 31‚ 2001‚ the company has purchased $1.41 billion of its announced $3.0 billion share repurchase program and acquired approximately 7.2 million. In connection
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Question 3: 2A4-LS10 SFAS 52 permits two different methods for converting the financial statements of foreign subsidiaries into U.S. dollars. Transaction gains and losses as a result of foreign currency translation are reported as: Income from discontinued operations. An extra-ordinary item. Income from continuing operations. An adjustment to retained earnings. Foreign currency exchange-rate adjustments to a company’s financial statements are recorded as "exchange gains" in current period activity.
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Week 2: Topic 1: Financial Accounting Theory & the Reporting Environment GHTHH Chapter 2 5. Researchers who develop positive theories and researchers who develop normative theories often do not share the same views about the roles of their respective approaches to theory construction. (a) How do positive and normative theories differ? (b) Can positive theories assist normative theories‚ or vice versa? If yes‚ give an example. If not‚ why not? Normative accounting research makes policy recommendations
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