Financial Accounting (BEA 2001) Tutorials PROPERTY‚ PLANT & EQUIPMENT Question 1: Measurement at recognition; components; depreciation Olympic plc is a diversified industrial company with many different areas of operation. The following information relates to the company’s property‚ plant and equipment. The company has a 30 September year end. All the plant was purchased and brought into use on 1 October 20X1 at a cost of £800 000. The cost of testing the plant amounted to £45 000 and samples
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What factors do you consider to be primarily responsible for the Japanese accounting system being significantly different from other national systems and what influences do you consider the Japanese system will have on international accounting in the future? INTRODUCTION Japan as an accounting jurisdiction is characterized by the dominance of the state (Haller and Raffournier‚ 2003). The accounting rules have been set out in the past fifty years as statute law with an implicit objective that
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increase in economic benefit during the accounting period in the form of inflow or enhancement of assets or decrease of liabilities that result in increase in equity. There are two types of income. First‚ sales revenue refers to income earned in the course of business activity for example a coffee house selling coffees. Second‚ gain refers to income that does not arise from the
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Research Article Article 50 Million: An Estimate of the Number of Scholarly Articles in Existence Arif E. Jinha Faculty of Post-Doctoral and Graduate Studies University of Ottawa 1 Abstract How many scholarly research articles are there in existence? Journal articles first appeared in 1665‚and the cumulative total is estimated here to pass 50 million in 2009. This sum was arrived at based on published figures for global annual output for 2006‚ and analyses of annual output and growth rates
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Accounting Fraud: A White Collar Crime Accounting Fraud: A White Collar Crime The CEO and CFO of a Swiss security systems company named Tyco‚ stole 150 million dollars from their company before being caught in 2002. At the height of the scandal‚ the CEO threw a 2 million dollar birthday party for his wife on a private island with guest performer Jimmy Buffet. After being caught‚ the CEO and CFO were sentenced to 8-25 years in prison and Tyco had to repay its investors 2.92 billion dollars (The
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About Computerised Accounting Abstract: In the economic globalization today‚ instead of computerized accounting manual accounting‚ accounts‚ reimbursement and other accounting activities as the main computing model accounting profession‚ is the modernization of management and accounting reform and development needs of its own‚ is a modern social mass production and the inevitable product of the new technological revolution. Accounting Computerization to the present‚ is not simply a simple combination
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Accounting Principles‚ Concepts and Conventions Accounting principles are guidelines & standards‚ which have been accepted by the accounting profession in preparation and presentation of accounts of the business. It is approved and normally accepted by the government bodies &controlling authorities. Accounting principles are uniform in order to understand in the same sense by those using it. Also they are not rigid (i.e. inflexible) like principle of gravity but they are flexible.
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Q1: There are two different types of cost accounting systems: Job order cost systems and process cost systems. How does management decide whether to use a job order cost system or a process cost system in any given manufacturing situation? Explain. Job order cost system is used in situations where many different products are produced each period. For example‚ a Levi Strauss clothing factory would typically make many different types of jeans for both men and women during a month. A particular order
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Overall requirement * Explain how management accounting can supply information to assist the management of the organisation. * You are not required to investigate and report on the organisation’s actual management accounting system (even if you can find out). * You are to write a 1500 word report as though you were a management consultant writing to the board of directors. * WE DO NOT WANT ANY NUMBERS UNLESS YOU CREATE THEM TO DEMONSTRATE AN IDEA * This is like assessment 1a –
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Chapter 15 Leases AACSB assurance of learning standards in accounting and business education require documentation of outcomes assessment. Although schools‚ departments‚ and faculty may approach assessment and its documentation differently‚ one approach is to provide specific questions on exams that become the basis for assessment. To aid faculty in this endeavor‚ we have labeled each question‚ exercise‚ and problem in Intermediate Accounting‚ 7e‚ with the following AACSB learning skills: Questions
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