...defects. The engineering and design team uses computerised drafting and testing of new products. The following managers work in the tennis rackets division: Jason Dennis, Sales Manager (supervises all sales representatives) Dave Marley, Cost Accounting Manager (supervises cost accountants) Kevin Carson, Production Supervisor (supervises all manufacturing employees) Sally Renner, Engineer (supervises all new-product design teams) REQUIRED a) What are the primary information needed by each manager? Give examples. (5 Marks) b) Which, if any, financial accounting report(s) is likely to be used by each manager? Explain. (3 Marks) c) Name one special purpose management accounting report that could be designed for each manager. Include the name of the report, the information it would contain, and how frequently it should be issued. (7 Marks) [TOTAL 15 MARKS] Grading Rubrics for Assignment Question 1: (5) (4) a) primary Clear and Clear and information detailed adequate needed by explanation of explanation of each the primary the primary manager information information needed by needed by weightage: 1 each manager each manager with some with some examples. examples. b) financial Clear and Clear and accounting detailed adequate report(s) explanation of explanation of the...
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...AFX 5860 Assignment International Studies in Banking & Finance Visit 1: UN Food and Agricultural Organization [pic] Place: Rome Italy Brief Introduction: The Food and Agriculture Organizaiton of the United Nations (FAO) is a special agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. FAO acts as a forum where all nations meet equally to negotiate agreements and debate policy, it also a source of knowledge and information which help developed and developing countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all (FAO, 2010). Rome Italy is head quarters. It has 191 member states as well as Europe Union and the Faroe Islands, which are associated members (FAO, 2010). FAO is composed of 8 different departments, the meeting is conducted by finance division. Relevant Key Points & Issues The fist half of the presentation briefly introduced the FAO’s role as UN’s agency, its structure, business environment and management. FAO’s mandate is contribute to the growth of world economy and to increase the level of nutrition, with the mission of helping build a food secure world. In order to achieve such mandates, they involves 4 activities which are putting information within reach, sharing policy expertise, providing a meeting place for nations and bringing knowledge to the field. It used result- based management which is an approach that integrates strategy, people,...
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...ACCOUNTING THEORY AND PRACTICE (FAR 600) Teaching and Learning Arrangements (SEMESTER: JAN 2007 – APRIL 2007) COURSE CODE : FAR 600 PROGRAM : BACHELOR OF ACCOUNTING (HONS) CREDIT HOURS : 4 CONTACT HOURS : 4 STATUS : CORE SYNOPSIS This financial accounting course exposes students to accounting theory, corporate accounting policies and financial reporting practices. The importance of history is introduced through a brief discussion on accounting history from both experiences of both western and Muslim Civilization. In understanding the theoretical framework of accounting, the various perspectives on financial accounting theory are examined with particular emphasis on their rationale and implications on accounting practice. General concepts of theory formulation are discussed and types of accounting perspectives and research are also introduced in this course. Corporate Accounting Policies are explained by the development of the Conceptual Framework and the Importance of a Regulatory Environment. The Standard Setting process in Malaysia is discussed. An analytical approach of the accounting standards is adopted by examining the recognition, measurement, disclosure and presentation of accounting information is discussed. Significant emphasis is placed on Asset Measurement, Nature of Liabilities, Types of Equity, Recognition of Revenue and Income Finally contemporary accounting practices and...
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...http://solutionsmanualtestbanks.blogspot.com/2011/10/accounting-principles-weygandt-9th.html Accounting Principles Weygandt Kieso Kimmel 9th Edition Solutions Manual -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Accounting Principles Author: Weygandt Kieso Kimmel Edition: 9th ISBN-10: 047031754X Type: Solutions Manual - The file contains solutions and questions to all chapters and all questions. All the files are carefully checked and accuracy is ensured. - The file is either in .doc, .pdf, excel, or zipped in the package and can easily be read on PCs and Macs. - Delivery is INSTANT. You can download the files IMMEDIATELY once payment is done. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Our response is the fastest. All questions will always be answered in 6 hours. This is the quality of service we are providing and we hope to be your helper. Delivery is in the next moment. Solution Manual is accurate. Buy now below and the DOWNLOAD LINK WILL APPEAR IMMEDIATELY once payment is done! Prepare to receive your Accounting Principles Solution Manual in the next moment. -------------------------------------- Accounting Principles Solution Manual Here’s a sample list of all other solutions manuals we have, if you need any one of them please contact us at solutionsmanualzone@gmail.com -A Transition to Advanced Mathematics by Douglas Smith, Maurice Eggen 5 Solution Manual -Accounting by Carl S. Warren, James M. Reeve 24...
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...An Analysis of Accounting Ethics Anna Aspras ACC 770 Proposal Hunter College INTRODUCTION Ethics refers to the discipline that deals with the bad and the good and also with the moral duties as well as moral obligations (Stolowy and Breton 2004). As Weidmann and Lenzen (2006) points out, ethics entails doing the right thing. Accounting ethics is mainly in the area of applied ethics and at the same time, it is also a part of business ethics as well as human ethics. It is worth pointing out that the kind of work that is always carried out by the auditors, as well as the accountants generally needs very huge ethics levels (Stolowy and Breton, 2000). The shareholders of the firms, the potential shareholders, as well as the other people who use the financial statements that are prepared by the accountants generally depend on the annual financial statements of the firms given that they are capable of using the information in making highly informed decisions concerning investments. At the same time, they depend on the accountants’ opinion and the verification of the financial statements by the auditors in order to make sure that the financial statements are giving a true, as well as a fair view of the firm (Weidmann and Lenzen, 2006). It is worth pointing out that the knowledge of ethics is capable of helping the accountants, as well as the auditors to overcome various kinds of ethical dilemmas, and this generally ensures that the correct choice is made though it might not be of benefit...
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...Scheme) SEMESTER SCHEME OF EXAMINATION UNDER SEMESTER : BBM COURSE SEM NO. PAPER NO. 1.1 TITLE OF THE PAPER LECTURE HOURS 04 MARKS UE 90 RM 10 TOTAL MARKS 100 I 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 2.1 II 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 III IV V LANGUAGE: KANNADA/SANSKRIT/URDU/TAMIL/ TELUGU/ADDITIONAL ENGLISH/ MARATHI/HINDI ENGLISH BUSINESS ECONOMICS FUNDAMENTALS OF ACCOUNTING BUSINESS MANAGEMENT BUSINESS MATHEMATICS TOTAL LANGUAGE: KANNADA/SANSKRIT/URDU/TAMIL/ TELUGU/ADDITIONAL ENGLISH/ MARATHI/HINDI ENGLISH BUSINESS STATISTICS FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT TOTAL BUSINESS COMMUNICATION HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT MARKETING MANAGEMENT CORPORATE ACCOUNTING SERVICES MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS INDIAN CONSTITUTION TOTAL BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS BUSINESS LAW COST ACCOUNTING FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT LAW AND PRACTICE OF BANKING COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS TOTAL INCOME TAX STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING COMPUTER APPLICATION IN BUSINESS PROJECT MANAGEMENT ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT TOTAL 04 04 04 04 04 24 04 90 90 90 90 90 540 90 10 10 10 10 10 60 10 100 100 100 100 100 600 100 04 04 04 04 04 24 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 28 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 28 04 04 04 04 04 04 24 90 90 90 90 90 540 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 630 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 630 90 90 90 90 90 90 540 10 10 10 10 10 60 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 70 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 70...
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... Dept. of Accounting & Information Systems University of Dhaka Submitted by: Md. Nur Alahi Jony ID: 13 105 4th Year, 2nd Semester B.B.A, 13th Batch Dept. of Accounting & Information Systems University of Dhaka. Date of submission: January 11, 2011. IMPORTANCE OF INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS INTRODUCTION With globalization everything is spreading worldwide and communication gets importance highly in this regard. Business operations are also spreading globally in an increasing rate. Among other matters, accounting is treated as the “Language of Business”. And the communication of accounting information is must to operate the business. As the consequence, a set of globally accepted accounting standards is necessary to introduce best possible communication of accounting matters worldwide. NEED OF ACCOUNTING STANDARDS Accounting is the art of recording transactions in the best manner possible, so as to enable the reader to arrive at judgments/come to conclusions, and in this regard it is utmost necessary that there are set guidelines. These guidelines are generally called accounting policies. The intricacies of accounting policies permitted Companies to alter their accounting principles for their benefit. This made it impossible to make comparisons. In order to avoid the above and to have a harmonized accounting principle, Standards...
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...Instructor’s Manual—Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1.1 The Objective of This Book 1.2 Some Historical Perspective 1.3 A Note on Ethical Behaviour 1.4 The Complexity of Information in Financial Accounting and Reporting 1.5 The Role of Accounting Research 1.6 The Importance of Information Asymmetry 1.7 The Fundamental Problem of Financial Accounting Theory 1.8 Regulation as a Reaction to the Fundamental Problem 1.9 The Organization of This Book 1.9.1 Ideal Conditions 1.9.2 Adverse Selection 1.9.3 Moral Hazard 1.9.4 Standard Setting 1.9.5 The Process of Standard Setting 1.10 Relevance of Financial Accounting Theory to Accounting Practice Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education Canada Instructor’s Manual—Chapter 1 LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND SUGGESTED TEACHING APPROACHES 1. The Broad Outline of the Book I use Figure 1.1 as a template to describe the broad outline of the book and course. Since the students typically have not had a chance to read Chapter 1 in the first course session, I stick fairly closely to the chapter material. The major points I discuss are: • Accounting in an ideal setting. Here, present-value-based accounting is natural. I go over the ideal conditions needed for such a basis of accounting to be feasible, but do not go into much detail because this topic is covered in greater depth in Chapter 2. • An introduction to the concept of information asymmetry and resulting problems...
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...Introduction. This course provides an introduction to cost management and management control. It is concerned with the generation, use and interpretation of management and cost information and related data by managers under various organizational systems. This information is used for planning and control, decision-making, performance evaluation, and reporting purposes. The course also examines the impact of quantitative information on motivation and organizational communication. This class presupposes some basic knowledge of financial reporting, economics and organizational behavior. Management accounting is a dynamic field and reflects many of the changes seen in business today. We will often use product-based companies to initially discuss a topic, and then expand our discussions to the service and not-for-profit sectors. Financial accounting is externally oriented and governed by fundamental concepts of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). In contrast, managerial accounting is internally oriented. Managerial accounting is very context driven. Management accounting is more intuitively understandable than financial accounting. However, the material cannot be learned by ‘thinking’. You must work through the mini-cases, cases and problems, which are assigned for each class. The concepts and techniques must be used to see how they are developed and applied. Discussion in each class assumes you understand the material covered in prior sessions. Therefore...
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...CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL REPORTING FOR GOVERNMENTAL AND NOT-FOR-PROFIT ENTITIES OUTLINE |Number |Topic |Type/Task |Status | | | | |(re: 15/e) | |Questions: | | | | |1-1 |Unique characteristics of governments and NFPs that create demand for |Identify/Explain |New | | |accountability | | | |1-2 |Distinguishing between general purpose and special purpose governments|Identify |New | |1-3 |Standards-setting bodies |Contrast |Same | |1-4 |Determining which standard-setting body sets standards for a |Identify/Explain |New | | |nongovernmental NFP | | ...
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...Ethics in Accounting | Managerial Accounting Q1 | | | Instructor: Nikolaos Kourkoumelis, Ph.D. | Student: Marija Lukic | 11/14/2012 | | Table of Contents The Ethics in Accounting case and the plan…………………………………………….4Incidentals of Authorization and Submittal…….………………………………………………………………..4Objective………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..4 Use of Observational Techniques…………………………………………………………………………………….4 An overview of the Report……………………………………...……………………………………………………….4Introduction………………………………………………...…………………………………………5The importance of Ethics in Accounting…….……………………………………………………………………..6 Creative Accounting…………………………………………………………………………….…7 Accounting Scandals..……………………………………………………………………………………………………10 The Enron Scandal……………………………………………………………………………………..10 The WorldCom Scandal………………………………………………………………….…………..12The consequences of Creative Accounting……………………..…………………………………13Measures of Prevention……………………………………………………………………………………15Conclusion……………………………………………………………………….…………………..17Bibliography……………………………………………………………...…………………………18 | Table of Figures Figure1. A proposed framework for understanding accounting manipulation practices…….……...9 The Ethics in Accounting case and the plan Incidentals of Authorization and Submittal This report is submitted to Dr. Nikolaos Kourkoumelis , professor of “Managerial Accounting” , on November 14th 2012, as authorized on the second Week of Q1 classes, 2012. The research and report...
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...1.0 Introduction Conservatism is arguably one of the most prominent and prolonged characteristics in accounting practices (Basu, 1997). Over the centuries, many researchers have accomplished in-depth reports and thoughtful analysis regarding different focuses on conservatism. Literatures related are abundant and fruitful. In next section, this paper will firstly give a brief review on a number of related literatures. Follows that, some of the most significant motivations to adopt conservatism such as contracting demand, litigation pressure, agency problem, tax implication, regulation concern and political economy will be discussed in section three. For the purpose of construction, regression analysis, as the most commonly used research technique, are also analyzed in section four of this paper, which also includes a summary of the requirements in sample selection process. Meanwhile, another crucial aim of this paper is to introduce the empirical evidence of a positive relationship between information quality and conditional conservatism. In section five, this paper intends to explain the empirical findings of Iatridis (2011) that a high quality accounting information discloser will apply conditional conservatism but restrict unconditional conservatism. 2.0 Literature Review Researchers commonly characterize accounting conservatism as “asymmetric timeliness in recognition of accounting gains versus losses and systematic understatement of net assets” (Chi...
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...Professor Rebecca Hann Faculty Coordinator for BUSI 610: Introduction to Financial Accounting Re: Pre-term Course from Harvard Business School Publishing Date: June 3, 2015 BUSI 610, Introduction to Financial Accounting, is one of the Core courses that you will take in Fall 2015. This course is designed to help you become an informed user of financial statements. Given the duration of the term, we will be moving at a fairly rapid pace. The course will begin with a brief overview of the fundamentals of accounting (key accounting concepts, the accounting process, and the principal financial statements) and then move on to study in greater depth the various elements of financial statements. At the end of the course, I expect you will have a good understanding of a company’s financial statements—be familiar with the process of preparing the statements as well as the ability to interpret and analyze financial data for economic decision making. To do well in the course, you need to have a solid understanding of the fundamental elements of accounting; the remainder of the course will otherwise prove to be difficult. To help you better prepare for the course, you are required to take an on-line web-based course from Harvard Business School Publishing titled Financial Accounting: An Introductory Online Course (FA). This requirement is intended to ensure that all students have a common understanding of financial accounting basics. It also allows us to cover more advanced and interesting...
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...Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements’ Summary OVERVIEW The conceptual framework applicable on adoption of Australian equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) will be: • SAC 1 ‘Definition of the Reporting Entity’; • SAC 2 ‘Objective of General Purpose Financial Reporting’; and • ‘Framework’ - Framework for the Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements. The existing Australian conceptual framework is provided in: • SAC 1 ‘Definition of the Reporting Entity’; • SAC 2 ‘Objective of General Purpose Financial Reporting’; • SAC 3 ‘Qualitative Characteristics of Financial Information’; and • SAC 4 ‘Definition and Recognition of the Elements of Financial Statements’. SAC 1 and SAC 2 will continue to apply in order to provide guidance for the IFRS application paragraphs. The ‘Framework’ will replace SAC 3 and SAC 4 which will be withdrawn. Although the ‘Framework’ is brief in comparison to SAC 3 and SAC 4, the concepts are similar with the key differences being that the ‘Framework’: ( includes prudence as a qualitative characteristic; and ( identifies two components to both income and expenses. INTRODUCTION The conceptual framework sets out the concepts underlying the preparation and presentation of general-purpose financial reports. The accounting standards, rules and guidance applicable under AASB 101 ‘Presentation of Financial Statements’ and AASB 108...
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...Created Theory: Ethical Bottom Line Introduction The Ethical Bottom Line Theory is developed on the bases of the case study and CSR theories and the traditional concept of accounting system. In traditional business accounting and common usage, the "bottom line” refers to either the “profit” or “loss”, which is usually recorded at the very bottom line on a statement of revenue and expenses. The Triple Bottom Line was coined by Elkington (1994) to introduce the full cost accounting method. For example if a corporation shows a profit but their production pollutes the river, and the government ends up spending taxpayers’ money for rehabilitation programs. So the Triple Bottom Line was coined to address the issue. The triple bottom line incorporates the notion of sustainability into business decisions. The TBL is an accounting framework with three dimensions: social, environmental (or ecological) and financial. The TBL dimensions are also commonly called the three Ps: people, planet and profit and are referred to as the "three pillars of sustainability". Interest in triple bottom line accounting has been growing in both for-profit, nonprofit and government sectors. Many organizations have adopted the TBL framework to evaluate their performance in a broader context (Elkington, 1994) Ethical Bottom Line theory condenses the Triple Bottom Line of Elkington (1994) framework and integrates the Stakeholder Theory. Brief Description of the Theory The theory condenses...
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