and losses. 2.) Limitations of the income statement include all of the following except: helps assess the risk or uncertainty of achieving future cash flow. 3.) Which of the following is an example of managing earnings down: changing estimated bad debts from 3% to 4.5% of sales. 4.) What might a manager do during the last quarter of a fiscal year if she wanted to decrease current annual net income: delay shipments to customers until after the end of the fiscal year. 5.) Which of
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Case Study 12.31 and 12.32 This paper addresses the solutions to Case Study 12.31 and 12.32 in the textbook authored by David Marshall‚ Wayne McManus‚ and Daniel Viele “Accounting; What the numbers mean.” Both case studies bring about a better understanding of operating and financial leverage. This discussion includes the return on investment‚ return on equity‚ contribution margin‚ and break-even point. All these terms associate with the two types of leverage. The exertion of a force that
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FORENSIC ACCOUNTING Abstract In today’s fast growing business world‚ it is necessary for an organization to evaluate its systems‚ internal control procedures and to analyze the risks involved to ascertain appropriate implementation and working of its processes. The organization must also identify‚ record‚ settle‚ extract‚ sort‚ report and verify past financial data. With increasing number of frauds within organizations‚ the regulatory framework has also been enhanced with introduction of
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The Bible and Accounting Ethics The Bible and accounting have numerous similarities when it comes to ethics. First‚ let us take a look at the definition of ethics; “ethics are the beliefs that distinguish right from wrong. They are accepted standards of good and bad behavior” (Wild‚ p.8). Therefore when comparing the two we are able to distinguish certain verses in the bible‚ with the code of ethics in accounting that are recognized in the accounting industry or any industry at that. There are
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2767.440 Price(P) -49.06 3.2748 -14.9809 2.46E-12 -55.891 -42.229 Income(M) 0.070380 0.0044 16.0778 6.65E-13 0.061 0.080 Population(N) 0.033636 0.0061 5.4695 2.36E-05 0.021 0.046 As indicated by p-value of coefficients‚ all of them are significant. Therefore‚ demand function can be written as Q = 2308.5 – 49.06*P + 0.07038*M + 0.033636*N 2) Demand function has coefficient of price as -49.06‚ meaning every increase of $1 in membership price causes demanded quantity to fall by about 49
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Significant figures are essential to science because they make the answer more precise when the tools require us to use estimation. Significant figures are the digits that contribute to the value of a number. Throughout the lab we were given instructions to measure different objects using different tools with the objective of figuring out how the amount significant figures affect the accuracy of the measurement. Firstly‚ it is important to know and understand significant figures because they make
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ORACLE AND PEOPLESOFT: MERGED? Introduction What is a hostile takeover? Merriam-Webster defines hostile as an adjective meaning “unfriendly‚” and takeover as a verb meaning “to assume control or possession of or responsibility for” (Mich‚ 1997). In the business arena‚ a hostile takeover is a stock acquisition in which “management and/or a significant number of shareholders oppose the purchase of the company by the intended buyer” (Fisher‚ Taylor‚ & Cheng‚ 2002). The case of Oracle and PeopleSoft
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Significant Event Shawn Wyatt Strayer University There’s a significant event that happened when I was only four years old. I saw my adult cousin dead in the park that my sister‚ bother‚ and I used to play in. I’m sure the memory that I have of this devastating event is not 100% accurate for a number of reasons. One being‚ the fact that it happened so long ago my memory could’ve been tarnished by hearing different stories from different individuals who also witnessed this dreadful event.
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SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ACCOUNTING AND OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS AND THE CONVENTIONAL ACCOUNTING FOR MANUFACTURING OR MECHANIZE OPERATION. By Demoore Suleman ----------------------- Conventional Manufacturing Account 1.Definition: Manufacturing account‚ the term I use to describe business organizations engaged in the manufacture of goods for sale. These company maintain a manufacturing account. 2. Cost Method: Expenses are the cost of unsold products and are reported as assets. These
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The basic accounting concepts have defined the conception of the preparation of financial statements and the process of preparation in the UK is well regulated. But financial accounting requires a fair amount of flexibility in some certain areas‚ so the need of judgements and estimations for accounts preparers is demand. Meanwhile it leaves a significant approach in accounting treatments. For example‚ when organizations decide which of several inventory valuation methods to utilize; managers make
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