4011 APRIL 7‚ 2009 CRAIG CHAPMAN Biovail Corporation: Revenue Recognition and FOB Sales Accounting Background Late on October 9‚ 2003‚ David Maris‚ an analyst at Banc of America Securities (BAS)‚ was trying to interpret the shocking events of the previous few days and finish the write-up of his first report on the Canadian pharmaceutical firm‚ Biovail Corporation. Maris didn’t like what he saw at the company‚ but he never liked writing “Sell” recommendations. In any event‚ he wanted to make
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Assignment Quality Management Introduction The important of quality For every organization‚ quality is the key of success factor because quality is one of the key competitive variables‚ without quality‚ a business may survive‚ but won’t/can’t reach its optimal earning potential. The quality of Companies products or services‚ the prices it charges and the supply it makes available are all factors the determine demand of customer. There are many ways to improve/achieve the quality such as‚ certification
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Auditor Quality 1. Introduction Over the past 20 years‚ research has been carried out to interpret audit quality and still no agreement on the method of measurement for audit quality. This is because audit quality depends on individual understandings‚ and those conceptions rely on whose perspectives are taken into consideration. The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board’s (IAASB) lately established Framework for Audit Quality (the Framework) in the purpose to systemize the
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J. Account. Public Policy 29 (2010) 296–306 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect J. Account. Public Policy journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jaccpubpol Does it add up? Early evidence on the data quality of XBRL filings to the SEC Roger Debreceny a‚*‚ Stephanie Farewell b‚ Maciej Piechocki c‚1‚ Carsten Felden d‚ André Gräning e a School of Accountancy‚ Shidler College of Business‚ University of Hawai‘i at Manoa‚ 2404 Maile Way‚ Honolulu‚ HI 96822‚ USA ¯ Department of
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Cost estimation is a fundamental aspect of managerial/cost accounting (Datar et al. 2008; Eldenburg and Wolcott 2005). The cost predictions are used in each of the management functions. for example used to predict costs so that management can determine the desirability of alternative options and to budget expenditures‚ profits‚ and cash flows. The objective is to support students in learning how to apply regression analyses to understand cost behavior and forecast future costs using real data from
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Opportunity costs The first opportunity cost that I made was choosing to enroll in a university that offers online courses or going to a traditional university that only has classroom style learning. The pros of attending online for me included not having to commute back and forth 40 additional miles per day‚ not having to hire a babysitter for my child‚ and I’d be in the comfort of my own home or environment to my liking when I studied. The cons included‚ not having that social connection to my
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CHAPTER 11: THE COST OF CAPITAL LEARNING GOALS: 1. Understand the key assumptions‚ the basic concept and the specific sources of capital associated with the cost of capital. 2. Determine the cost of long-term debt and the cost of preferred stock. 3. Calculate the cost of common stock equity and convert it into the cost of retained earnings and the cost of new issues of common stock. 4. Calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and discuss alternative weighing schemes
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MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING Information for Decision-Making and Strategy Execution SIXTH EDITION Anthony A. Atkinson University of Waterloo Robert S. Kaplan Harvard University Ella Mae Matsumura University of Wisconsin–Madison S. Mark Young University of Southern California Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montreal Toronto Delhi Mexico City S~ Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore
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of the more basic concepts of economics. Scarcity needs trade-offs‚ and trade-offs result in an opportunity cost. While the cost of a good or service often is thought of in monetary terms‚ the opportunity cost of a decision is based on what must be given up as a result of the decision. Any decision that involves a choice between two or more options has an opportunity cost. Opportunity cost‚ scarcity and trade-off are important in our daily life because it affects us every day in different ways and
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‚ Rose Perez‚ noticed that while small retail customers flocked to the bank‚ the number of business customers was declined. Columbia City Bank’s costing system‚ develop back in 1988‚ is straightforward. No costs are traced directly to customers. The bank simply assigns the total indirect costs to customer lines (retail customer line or business customer line) based on the total number of checks processed. The definition of a retail customer is basically any customer other than an institutional customer
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