Accounting Team Project Naomi Konen and Chue Lee 8-2 a) Joan’s first mistake is not using control of cash receipts. She is having only one person go through the whole accounting controls process. There should be other people involved in this process including Joan herself. Joan must also realize the limitations of human controls. One person going through the entire process is bound to make a human error. b) Joan initially failed by trying to joke about her employee stealing. Stealing
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Checkpoint 1 Impacts of Unethical Behavior The company that I researched for unethical practices is Tyco International; the nature of the controversy was the fraud and scandals that Tyco international has gone through. In 1999 the SEC began to analyze Tyco’s accounting practices do to the company was standing in 28 million dollars in debt. They were able to pinpoint many areas that were not adding up with the amounts money was being taken and there was really no good explanation. They found out
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University of Phoenix Name XACC/280 Week four checkpoint Date Checkpoint: Besides the general journal‚ there are four different special journals; the Sales Journal‚ the Cash Receipts Journal‚ the Purchases Journal‚ and the Cash Journal. The Sales Journal records all sales of merchandise on account‚ cash and credit sales not included. The advantage of the sales journal is that it is time saving and easy because not every transaction has to be singled out‚ total can be reported instead
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xx/xx/xxxx xacc/280 week 8 Checkpoint The collapse of Enron back in 2001 shows a number of unethical practice. This company shows unethical practice in accounting as well as business. This company is a perfect example on how unethical behavior of a few people can affect millions of individuals. This also affected these individuals for many years after. Enron was the first business to have nationwide gas pipeline networks. On November 8‚ 2001 Enron made an announcement in a SEC filing that
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states companies but record assets at their own cost. Along with the four basic assumptions of accounting and the four principles of accounting‚ there are two constraints of accounting. These constraints are: materiality that relates to an item’s impact of the firm’s overall financial condition and operations; and conservatism which dictates when a company is in a doubt and that there company should choose the method that will be least likely to overstate assets and income. Financial reporting
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There are three ways to analyze financial statements there is the vertical analysis‚ which uses the base percentage to express the assets or liabilities and stockholders’ equity. Horizontal analysis or the trend analysis is how someone can evaluate the financial statement over a period. With this method‚ one can determine an increase or decrease in assets liabilities or stockholders equity. This can be done in percentage or totals Horizontal analysis is used primarily with an intercompany comparison
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to value the company’s stock‚ the company’s stock was highly overpriced. If I had been an accountant for WorldCom‚ I would have treated such disbursements as normal operating costs. If I had been forced by management to indulge in such an unethical behavior‚ I would see myself enforced to have reported the company to the authorities as this is a serious violation of accounting ethics‚ and I would not want to be part of such violations. WorldCom’s reaffirmation of earnings had put the company
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Week 6 Checkpoint The accounting cycle is a series of procedures that allow a company to record their transactions and prepare their financial statements in the most accurate way possible. Every cycle starts with a single transaction and ends with the books being closed out for a specific time period. There are nine steps in all. 1. Analyze Business Transactions – As financial transactions occur they are analyzed and considered with respect to their effect on their financial position in the
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Impacts of Unethical Behavior Adam S. Wilcox XACC/280 5/9/2012 Angelia Hunter Impacts of Unethical Behavior The collapse of Enron in 2001 shed the light on a number of unethical business and accounting practices in the corporate world. In 1986 Enron CEO Kenneth Lay combined his Houston Natural Gas company with several other companies. At this time the company began growing exponentially. By the mid-1990’s the deregulation of the oil and gas industries allowed Enron to spend
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