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Accounts Receivable Cash Flow
1,321 words
Purpose: To analyze the cause and effect of the
significant drop of Traditional Industry's
(Traditional) 1989 net income, from 1988 record
breaking amount number. We have noted the
following weaknesses in reporting as the primary
cause of Traditional's bankruptcy: Traditional had
not properly recorded bad debt expense and account
receivable for the year 1988, as such, we will
reconstruct the journal entries for bad debt
expense and accounts receivable write-offs for
1987, 1988, 1989. If bad debt...
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Ohio University Accounting One
456 words
"A University should be a place of delight, of
liberty, and of learning, " remarked Benjamin
Disraeli, an English author, as if he had Ohio
University in mind as he placed his thoughts in
writing. How could Ohio University help me achieve
intellectual independence and assist me in my
career goals? Being one of the finest
establishments in the mid-eastern United States,
Ohio University would allow me to fulfill my
perfectionist ideals; I would be able to compete
with the best and the brightest. M...
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Net Profit Balance Sheet
1,313 words
... r friendliness and utility have been
sacrificed on the alter of harmonisation with
international standards. To be more particular
with respect to changes Ravlic (2002) discovered
from Prentice that items, such as abnormal items
were hardly being reported on the face of the
Statement of Financial Performance, therefore
companies were not truly showing the impact of
these items. Moreover, what profit after tax was
in comparison to sustainable cash flows. A more
specific example why the trilogy...
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Order To Succeed Personality And Lifestyle Career
479 words
Why do you want a career in and feel you will be
successful in your chosen field? In todays
society, education stands as a significant factor
in order to succeed. We are now being challenged
by new technology and being expected to cope with
a changing world. There are many factors in life
that influence our decision-making, personality,
and lifestyle which will determine our future
stability. In my case, being a single mother, I
anticipate that it is my obligation to take
advantage of every oppo...
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Put Into Place Internal Controls
1,088 words
In accounting systems, certain controls are needed
to ensure that employees are doing their jobs
properly and ensure that the system runs properly.
These checks are in the best interest of the
organization. These controls come in the form of
internal and external controls for the system. The
internal controls are the checks that are placed
in the system my the company's own management and
directors. Today more and more companies are
moving from the manual accounting systems to
computerized accou...
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Enron A History And How The Company Imploded
1,282 words
... and Electric Company is one of the three major
utility companies in the region, along with
Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas &
Electric Company. August 14, 2001 CEO Jeff
Skilling resigns stating "personal reasons. "
October 12, 2001 Enron announces that it made a US
$ 638 million loss during the third quarter of the
fiscal year 2001. October 24, 2001 Andrew Fastow
is ousted as the chief financial officer because
of his involvement into questionable business
transactions and pa...
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Stock Price 300 Million
820 words
As Skilling went up in rank he started to get the
company involved in risky investments to make more
profit. In an interview with the University of
Virginia he said "We like risk because you make
money by taking risk, " This was one of the many
reasons which got Enron into financial debt,
Skilling also persuaded regulators to allow Enron
to use "market-to-market" accounting. A technique
used by brokerage companies for securities
trading. It allowed Enron to count long-term
contracts as immediate...
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Foreign Exchange Foreign Currency
1,500 words
Exchange Rate Risk The continuing globalization of
business and securities markets, deregulation of
some of the worlds financial markets, and tax
reform have led to the creation of numerous
innovative corporate financing tools.
Additionally, foreign currency exchange rates have
become increasingly volatile in the financial
markets. Management of foreign exchange risk has
become a more challenging task. The newly
developed instruments also pose new risks to
management. Therefore, it is essential ...
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Predatory Pricing Pricing Strategy
2,942 words
Predatory Pricing Introduction Pricing includes a
variety of different problems relating to
marketing, management accounting, planning, and
economics. Proper usage of effective pricing
models allows a company to raise its profitability
of sales by avoiding and correcting erroneous
pricing solutions. The development of pricing
strategies is a task usually performed by top
managers as a part of developing the general
business strategy of a company. Successful pricing
requires a good knowledge of t...
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Standardized Testing In The School System
1,559 words
Standardized Testing in the School System At all
levels, from pre-school to four-year colleges and
universities, US public education is dominated by
a win-lose competitive model, established and
supported through standardized testing system.
While this model has been relatively successful in
educating and training most Americans to function
in the type of economic environment that has
prevailed since the Second World War, it has
almost completely failed to develop a citizenry
that can participat...
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Financial Analyst Bachelors Degree
1,225 words
Career Research Decision-making process is our
fellow-traveler. Making correct plans or
job-related decisions can be extremely difficult.
The recent decision I have made affecting my job
is to choose a career in Finance, namely, to
become a Financial Analyst. It was quite a
difficult process when I had to choose the aim and
determine the way I need to act for realization of
my aim. This process embraces correlation of
goals, values of realization, assessments and
motives, to mention a few. First...
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Irwin Mcgraw Hill General Accounting Office
1,539 words
... areas. Hungry new competitors are baying at
the door. Deregulation The intensity of
competition among postal services will depend
largely on the extent of deregulation. Governments
generally are supporting state monopolies less,
and the postal monopoly is no exception. They
realize that a monopoly limits a postal operator's
incentive to be efficient, and that competition
will be distorted as long as an operator can
subsidize its deregulated business segments with
profits earned in protected ...
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Human Resource Professionals Securities And Exchange Commission
1,539 words
... it immediately jumps out. If you put a frog in
cool water and slowly heat up the water, you can
eventually boil the frog. In other words one
doesn't seem to notice the adverse changes in its
environment, until it is too late. The last myth
in Managing Ethics in the workplace has little
practical relevance. To manage ethics in the
workplace one must identify and prioritize values
to guide behaviors of the organization and its
employees. Then policies and procedures must be
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Australian Telecommunication Industry Part 1
1,628 words
Australian Telecommunication Industry Analysis
Australia has one of the most open and liberal
markets for competition in international
telecommunication services. Market liberalization
has created opportunities for new players to enter
the Australian market and provide all types of
services to Australian telecommunications users.
An industry analysis states that the international
telecommunications services market is currently
valued at around A$ 150 b. (Commission paper no.
10, February 1998). ...
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Human Resource Professionals Securities And Exchange Commission
1,521 words
... jumps out. If you put a frog in cool water and
slowly heat up the water, you can eventually boil
the frog. In other words one doesn't seem to
notice the adverse changes in its environment,
until it is too late. The last myth in Managing
Ethics in the workplace has little practical
relevance. To manage ethics in the workplace one
must identify and prioritize values to guide
behaviors of the organization and its employees.
Then policies and procedures must be established
to ensure those behavi...
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United States Postal General Accounting Office
1,333 words
Monopoly of the Postal Service In the United
States economy most markets can be classified into
four different markets structures. But, each and
every market in the United States is completely
unique from the others. Generally the best type of
market structure for the general public is
per-fect competition because it creates the lowest
possible price for the public. There are some
exceptions were perfect competition isn? t the
best choice for the public on account of various
reasons. The United ...
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Accounting Firms Stay Competitive
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Deloitte 038; Touche: a firm with many
opportunities When an Accounting major is trying
to find a firm to work for, there are 5 companies
that typically come into mind. These companies are
the Big 5 Accounting Firms, which include Ernst
038; Young, KPMG, Deloitte 038; Touche, Arthur
Andersen, and Price Waterhouse Coopers. The choice
the student now has to make is which Big 5 Firm to
go with. On the outside they all appear to be
basically the same and pretty much offer
comparable benefit...
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Y 2 K Strategic Alliances
3,877 words
I. Current Situation (1991 - 1993) 1. History of
IBM: IBM is a multinational corporation that
started its activities in 1911. But its origins
can be traced back to 1890, during the height of
the Industrial Revolution. It was first known as
the Computing-Recording Company, then in 1924, it
took the name of International Business Machines.
Nowadays, this multinational company is known as
the? Big Blue? . 2. Mission statement IBM main
activity is to find solutions to its wide range of
clients using...
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Irwin Mcgraw Hill Due To The Fact
542 words
J. I. T. Manufacturing And Inventory Control
System Essay, J. I. T. Manufacturing And Inventory
Control System Since the dawn of human existence
evolution in all sectors of society has occurred
due to Economic factors. This has mainly happened
due to the fact that all technological
achievements have occurred in favor of money.
Specifically we can admit that Economy is the main
reason for growth and development. By these means
it is in our interest to establish strong
economies either as societie...
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White Collar Crime Cost Benefit Analysis
2,980 words
Politics of Criminal Justice White collar crime
costs the United States more money than all street
crime put together in any given year. There are
more people each year that are willing to commit
these crimes. Society does not feel that
white-collar crimes are deviant; the people who
commit these crimes do not think of themselves as
criminals. This type of crime is one of the most
vexing even though most people feel little threat
of this crime in their communities. What many do
not realize is th...
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