...Qualification structure and syllabus CIMA Chartered Management Accounting Qualification 2010 December 2008 Contents CIMA now designs its qualifications in what we believe to be a unique way. Based on rigorous international primary research with all of our key stakeholders and involving the participation of over 6,000 individuals and organisations – members, students, employers (both existing and potential), CIMA tuition partners, universities and our examiner and marker team – we have designed a professional finance training and development solution that is second to none. I commend this revised CIMA Professional Qualification to you. It will be examined for the first time in 2010, so there is plenty of time to absorb the exciting changes contained in the pages that follow. A qualification focused on the future – fit for purpose, relevant and unique I am honoured to introduce the new 2010 Chartered Management Accounting Qualification to all of our stakeholders. With seismic shifts occurring in the world’s economy, coupled with accelerating concerns about the sustainability of our planet, never before has there been a greater need for organisations to train and develop their people to manage the impact of these changes. With this revised qualification CIMA remains true to its long and proud history of providing finance professionals with a difference – Chartered Management Accountants – who combine management and finance skills in a unique way and who fully understand...
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...Proposed Statement of Financial Accounting Concepts Issued: March 11, 2010 Comments Due: July 16, 2010 Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting: The Reporting Entity This Exposure Draft of a proposed Statement of Financial Accounting Concepts is issued by the Board for public comment. Written comments should be addressed to: Technical Director File Reference No. 1770-100 Responses from interested parties wishing to comment on the Exposure Draft must be received in writing by July 16, 2010. Interested parties should submit their comments by email to director@fasb.org, File Reference No. 1770-100. Those without email may send their comments to the “Technical Director, File Reference No. 1770-100, FASB, 401 Merritt 7, PO Box 5116, Norwalk, CT 06856-5116.” Do not send responses by fax. Please send only one comment letter to either the FASB or the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), which is also requesting comments on this jointly issued Exposure Draft. The FASB and the IASB will share and consider jointly all comment letters received. Comments are most helpful if they: a. b. c. Indicate the specific paragraph or paragraphs to which the comments relate Contain a clear rationale Include any alternative the Boards should consider. All comments received constitute part of the FASB’s public file. The FASB will make all comments publicly available by posting them to its website and by making them available in its public reference room in Norwalk, Connecticut. An...
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...INTRODUCTION A financial audit, or more accurately, an audit of financial statements, is the verification of the financial statements of a legal entity, with a view to express an audit opinion. The audit opinion is intended to provide reasonable assurance that the financial statements are presented fairly, in all material respects, and/or give a true and fair view in accordance with the financial reporting framework. The purpose of an audit is to enhance the degree of confidence of intended users in the financial statements. The general definition of an audit is an evaluation of a person, organization, system, process, enterprise, project or product. The term most commonly refers to audits in accounting, but similar concepts also exist in project management, quality management, and energy conservation. Financial audits are typically performed by firms of practising accountants who are experts in financial reporting. The financial audit is one of many assurance functions provided by accounting firms. Many organizations separately employ or hire internal auditors, who do not attest to financial reports but focus mainly on the internal controls of the organization. External auditors may choose to place limited reliance on the work of internal auditors. Internationally, the International Standards on Auditing (ISA) issued by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) is considered as the benchmark for audit process. Almost all jurisdictions require auditors...
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...27MAR201319523653 ORCHIDS PAPER PRODUCTS COMPANY 2013 ANNUAL REPORT To Stockholders Dear Stockholders, In 2013, Orchids Paper Products Company experienced record converted product net sales and total net sales levels for the second consecutive year. We continued to broaden our product offerings and experienced additional penetration into the mid/premium tier product markets. Net sales of converted products exceeded $100 million for the first time in the Company’s history. During 2013, we focused on continuing to increase sales of converted product to fully consume our parent roll capacity. Our efforts centered on new product development in both paper making and converting and combining those efforts with an effective sales and marketing plan. As a result, we continued to expand our converted product offerings into the mid/premium tier market, creating new sales opportunities which resulted in shipments of 8.2 million cases, or approximately 53,000 tons, an increase of 16.2% over case shipments in 2012. More specifically, during 2013, our net sales increased 15.4% to $116.4 million compared to $100.8 million in 2012. This included a 21.1% increase in converted product sales. Our sales of mid-tier and premium tier products comprised 37.9% of our unit net sales in 2013, compared to 15.0% in 2012 and 6.8% in 2011. We also focused considerable efforts on controlling production costs while improving quality attributes to supplement the high quality production capabilities of...
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...Week 5 – Group Paper Control Mechanisms Paper Explain how these controls affect the four functions of management. The four functions of management at General Motors which are to plan, organize, direct and control are affected by budgetary, feedback, financial and market controls. General Motors is depending more on the control mechanisms now, more than ever. Since falling into bankruptcy, General Motors is using budgetary control now as a means of planning and control. W.A. Paton describes the budget as “any statement or report which shows the estimated data of either the course or results of a program or plan of operation. (W.A. Paton. 1932) General Motors uses budgetary control in long-term and short-term management planning. The new Chief Financial Officer, Chris Leddell, has stated that General Motors has lost billions of dollars in the last year. With that being said Mr. Leddell is very optimistic that General Motors will rebound from bankruptcy and will more than likely be able to show a profit for 2010. The organizational management function is utilizing a now weak financial control and they know they have a long road ahead. General Motors management team uses feedback controls to help allocate resources and track funds versus production and sales. These control mechanisms affect General Motors management functions by providing an instant indicator, preventing a lagging indicator. References Jstor.(2010). General Motors Budgetary Control. Retrieved from...
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...Limitations of the study 8 CHAPTER 02 9 Overview of management control systems 9 2.1Management Control Systems (MCS) 10 2.2Elements of Management Control 11 2.3Boundaries of Management Control 11 2.4 Benefits of management control systems 12 2.5 Limitations of Management control systems 12 CHAPTER 03 13 Management control systems and strategy: 13 A critical analysis 13 3.1 Relationship between Management control systems and strategy 14 3.2 Levels of strategy from organization point of view 14 3.2.1Corporate-Level Strategy 14 3.2.2 Business Unit Strategies 15 3.2.2.1 Business Unit Mission 15 3.2.2.2 Business Unit Competitive Advantage 15 3.4 Responsibility Centers 16 3.4.1 Nature of Responsibility Centers. 16 3.5 types of Responsibility Centers 17 3.5.1 Revenue Centers 17 3.5.2 Expenses Centers 17 3.5.3 Profit Centers 18 3.5.4 Investment center 21 3.6 Concept of Transfer Pricing in relation to Responsibility center 22 CHAPTER 04 23 Budgeting and performance measurement 23 4.1Budgeting as a Control Mechanism 24 4.2Business performance management 25 4.3Balanced Scorecard 26 CHAPTER 05 29 FINDINGS AND CONCLUSION 29 5.1 Findings 30 5.2 Conclusion 30 5.3Bibliography 31 CHAPTER 01 About the report 1.1Introduction To introduce this topic and understanding the importance of management control system we know that in the present globalised world, organizations need to use management control systems that go beyond the strategies that focus on acquisition...
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...Name: Institution: Course: Date: Introduction Since there are many definitions of management accounting, this paper will stick with the definition formulated according to the American Accounting Association. It defines accounting as a process of providing both financial and non-financial to decision makers. The varying nature of business characteristics implies that also techniques used in managerial accounting for each business differ as the business grows. During start up the business rely on capital investment and budgeting techniques. A mature business relies upon quality control and cost management. Techniques used ultimately assist the business to achieve its long-term and short-term aims via efficient decision-making. The objective of this paper is to study each concept available in the accounting definition and provide a framework needed for deep understanding of aspects and issues involved in the process of accounting. The paper will have two part. The first part will look at the first aspect that is to define managerial accounting and look at its role, techniques and ethical issues facing managerial accountant. We will also highlight the role of a managerial accountant. In the second part, three topics will be covered. The three topics are; cost investment techniques, budgeting, and quality control. In the selected topics, real-world cases will be presented in relation to how they relate to managerial accounting techniques. Managerial accounting is defined as process...
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...Acknowledgement First of all, I am expressing my sincere great fullness to almighty to prepare this term paper, no noble achievement can be achieve by an individual term paper depends on the contribution of number of people specially their thoughtful guidance and suggestions to complete this term paper. I am indented for their kind recommendation, submission, direction, cooperative and their collaboration. I want to give my special thanks to the Academic Supervisor Professor Md. Didarul Islam, Department of Accounting for his support and enormous help, especially his guidelines throughout the period of preparing this term paper. Declaration I do hereby Solemnly declare that the work submitted in the term paper titled “Sources of Short-Term Financing in Bangladesh” has been carried out by me and has not been previously submitted to any other university, college, organization for an academic purpose or certificate or diploma degree. This work that I have submitted does not break any existing copyright and no portion of this report is copied from any work done earlier for a degree or otherwise. I further undertake to indemnify the department against any loss or damage arising from breach of the forgoing obligations. Md. Golam Kibria BBA(hon’s) Final Year Reg. No. 09101626055 Major: Accounting Supervisor’s Certificate This is to certify that the term paper on “Sources of Short-Term Financing in Bangladesh” submitted for the award of the Degree of Bachelor of Business Administration...
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...Pension Funds in Financial Intermediation Ondabu Ibrahim Tirimba Finance and Economics Department, PhD Candidate Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya Abstract This paper aimed at discussing the various roles that pensions play in financial intermediat ion. Descriptive research design was adopted with the population being all the available literature on the online web as pertaining pension funds and also financial intermed iation. Using key word characters, the search in itially identified 50 journals and after a tentative scrutiny, 37 journals were selected in a random sampling manner in o rder to give the birth of this discussion paper. The key objective of this article was to discuss the role of pension funds in financial intermed iation. A mong the roles identified in this paper were; provision of a mechanis m for pooling of funds and subdivision of shares, provision of ways to transfer economic resources, provision of ways to manage uncertainty and control risk, provision of ways to manage uncertainty and control risk, provision of pricing informat ion and the provision of ways to deal with incentive problems. This paper provides practical insights into the roles of pension in financial intermed iation and thus highlighting the key importance of such pension funds into the success of any economy. This paper is one of the very first to recognize the key roles that pension funds play in the 21st century. Keywords Intermediary, Financial Intermediary...
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...CHAPTER 4 AUDIT EVIDENCE AND AUDIT DOCUMENTATION Answers to Review Questions 4-1 Auditors typically divide the financial statements into components or segments in order to make the audit more manageable. A component can be a financial statement account or a business (transaction) process. This approach allows the auditor to gather evidence by examining the processing of related transactions through the accounting system from their origin to their ultimate disposition in the accounting journals and ledgers. Thus, the auditor can examine an accounting transaction from the time it is initiated by the entity until its final recording in the financial statement accounts. 4-2 The financial statements contain management's assertions about the various financial statement components. The auditor tests management’s assertions by conducting audit procedures that provide evidence on whether each relevant assertion is supported. The results from applying audit procedures provide the evidence that supports the fair presentation of management’s assertions and the auditor's report (see Figure 4-1). 4-3 Assertions about classes of transactions and events for the period under audit: Assertion Definition Occurrence Transactions and events that have been recorded have occurred and pertain to the entity (sometime referred to as validity). Completeness All transactions and events that should have been recorded have been recorded. Authorization All transactions and events have...
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...Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Market Chapter Review Faculty, College of Business and Accountancy Graduate Programs Central Philippine University Iloilo City In partial fulfilment Of the Course Requirements In Philippine Financial System MBA 612a Presented by: JOYNEN A. BALDEVARONA July 24, 2015 Chapter 2: An Overview of the Financial System This chapter gives an overview of the financial markets and institutions as well as explain the concept and role of financial intermediaries in the economy. According to Mishkin, there are six basic functions the Financial system performs. These functions are as follows: 1. Borrowing and Lending Financial Market can channel funds from savers to borrowers either through direct finance, in which borrowers borrow funds directly from the lenders by selling them securities or through indirect finance which involves financial intermediaries that stand between the lender (savers) and the borrower (spenders) and help transfer funds from one to another. Mishkin also pointed out in this chapter that firms in major developed countries have traditionally relied more on indirect than direct financing in obtaining their borrowed funds. 2. Price Determination 3. Information Aggregation and Coordination 4. Risk Sharing 5. Liquidity 6. Effiency In this chapter, financial markets were also classified into four structures: 1. Debt and Equity Markets Funds can be obtained in a financial market either through issuance of...
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... | |Managing | |Financial Records | |[pic] |[pic] | | | | |INTERNATIONAL |INTERNATIONAL RECORDS | |COUNCIL ON ARCHIVES |MANAGEMENT TRUST | Managing Public Sector Records: A Study Programme Managing Financial Records MANAGING PUBLIC SECTOR RECORDS A STUDY PROGRAMME GENERAL EDITOR, MICHAEL ROPER; MANAGING EDITOR, LAURA MILLAR Managing Financial Records International Records International Management Trust Council on Archives Managing Public Sector Records: A Study Programme Managing Financial Records © International Records Management...
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...Seppo Honkapohja The 1980s financial liberalization in the Nordic countries Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 36 • 2012 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2190375 The 1980s financial liberalization in the Nordic countries1 Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 36/2012 Seppo Honkapohja Monetary Policy and Research Department Abstract The financial liberalization in the four Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden) that took place mostly in the 1980s led to a major financial crisis in three of those countries. The crises in Finland, Norway, and Sweden are among the deepest financial crises in advanced market economies since World War II. Denmark experienced some banking problems but managed to avoid a systemic crisis. This paper reviews the process of liberalization and discusses the reasons why Finland, Norway, and Sweden drifted into financial and economic crises. Keywords: financial repression, credit rationing, capital account controls, financial deregulation JEL classification numbers: E42, F36, G28 I am grateful to Tapio Korhonen for extensive assistance. Adam Gulan, Hanna Putkuri, and Juhana Hukkinen helped in specific aspects of work. Jarmo Kontulainen and Juha Tarkka provided useful comments. The views expressed are my own and do not necessarily represent those of the Bank of Finland. 1 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2190375 I Introduction The banking and economic...
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...Industry-specific Management Control Systems and Ccorporate Qquality Ttargets – Insights from ten years American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Data Authors: Thomas Pock Research Scholar, Ross School of Business, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, SwitzerlandMichigan National Quality Research Center 701 Tappan Street, 48103 Ann Arbor, MI, USA Phone: +1-734-709-1036 tpock@bus.umich.edu Prof. Fritz Fahrni University of St. Gallen Director of the Institute for Technology Management Dufourstrasse 40a, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland Phone: +41-71-224-7201 fritz.fahrni@unisg.ch Prof. Anders Westlund Stockholm School of Economics, Director of the Center for Economic Statistics and Decision Support 65 Sveavaegan, 11383 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: +46-8-736-9231 anders.westlund@hhs.se Prof. Fritz Fahrni University of St. Gallen, Director of the Institute for Technology Management Dufourstrasse 40a, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland Phone: +41-71-224-7201 fritz.fahrni@unisg.ch Thomas Pock Research Scholar, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan National Quality Research Center 701 Tappan Street, 48103 Ann Arbor, MI, USA Phone: +1-734-709-1036 tpock@bus.umich.edu rewrite abstract according to instructions Abstract Purpose – The paper provides a well-founded analysis of situation specific drivers and limitations to quality targets and the complexity...
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...in December, Enron filed for bankruptcy. The failure shocked the public and angered investors. How could this have happened? Did no one see this coming? Where were the accountants? Where were the controls? Enron’s public troubles began on October 16th of 2001 when management released a third quarter earnings report with a “mysterious $1.2 billion dollar reduction.” The following month the company restated earnings for the previous five years and erased $600 million in profits. It turned out that the October report began to reveal Enron’s gross abuse of special-purpose entities (SPEs) and the mark-to-market accounting method. The company used SPEs to keep enormous amounts of losses off its books while inflating earnings from supply contracts by booking all profits from a contract in the quarter the deal was made. What also became clear was that Enron did not accomplish their gross manipulations without the help from their accountant’s at Arthur Andersen. Enron shareholders and executives were not the only groups negatively affected by Enron’s aggressive accounting practices. Arthur Andersen was also unraveled because of the role it played in Enron’s materially misstated financial statements. In a letter to Kenneth Lay (, Enron’s CEO before and after Jeffrey Skilling’s short term) shortly after Jeffrey Skilling resigned, Sherron Watkins, a VP at Enron, expressed her concern with the state of the company and expressed stated concerns about Enron’s accounting practices even though...
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