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Wall Street Journal Managing Diversity
1,195 wordsWorkplace Diversity: Fact or Fiction? Are todays corporate diversity programs truly effective? That question, posed by Robert J Grossman in an article carried by the Wall Street Journal Online on June 28, 2000, will be explored as part of the review of Mr. Grossman's article. The concept of diversity goes well beyond the historical employment equity legislation enacted in both federal and local jurisdictions. It calls for the recognition of the contributions that individuals can make as individu...
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Mergers And Acquisitions Ninety Percent
1,102 wordsCompany mergers and the effect on employees and consumers. On-line research (On-line Magazines, News Groups) Mergers have affected our group, and it is a growing trend in the American businesses today. A merger is achieved when a company purchases the property of another firm, thus absorbing them into one corporate structure that retains its original identity. Consumers are everyday people who buy goods for personal use. Consumers have the right to question object and boycott companies who are n...
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Font Size Risk Averse
442 wordsThe owner of capital in AT is a principal or investor who is risk loving or, at worst, risk neutral. To the AT risk lover Bayes Theorem would recommend that accountants supply good information to help investors revise their priors about expected payout (product of probability multiplied by reward) because that is how risk loving investors rank their investment alternatives. To the EMH risk averse investor Bayes Theorem would recommend that accountants supply good information to help investors re...
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Station Marlow Stepping Stone
937 wordsThe three stations in Conrad's novella, The Heart of Darkness, serve as steps in a descent. When Marlow's journey down the Congo is examined, it can be viewed as if it were a descent into the pool that is Africa. The stations themselves are attempts at oases within the harsh jungle, but, through exposure, have become corrupted by the darkness of the land. With each station, Marlow comes closer and closer to his final goal, the inner station where Kurtz waits for him. This final station represent...
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Australia Unfair Legal System
820 wordsIn theory all jury systems (which have existed for almost 800 years) are fair and just. The jury system originated in England and has so far failed in cases (all too common) when defendants are wrongfully prosecuted or convicted of crimes which they did not commit. In societies without a jury system, panels of judges act as decision makers. They weigh the evidence and apply the law. In the court system, criminal law is interpreted by a jury who are seen as expressing the sense of justice of ordi...
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E Commerce Online Shopping
1,067 wordsH 2 >You Hold the E The technology of today is vastly innovative and beneficial to those who know how to manipulate it. The Internet era is unfolding, anybody can now log on to their computers and take care of their financial business, online in the comfort of their own homes. This is called e-commerce, within the past few years; companies have been excited with the idea of online shopping and connecting with customers worldwide. This is mainly because of over exaggerated headlines, outr...
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Managerial And Financial Accounting
509 wordsManagerial and Financial Accounting Accounting can be broken down into many different categories and areas. Managerial and financial accounting is only two parts of the cost accounting system. With in these two different aspects of accounting there are many similarities and differences not only between these categories but also in their rules and regulations, management information and reporting requirements as well. The certifications of accountants are also differentiated in these two categori...
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Financial Accounting Financial Statements
726 wordsFinancial Accounting Financial accounting involves the preparation of a business's financial statements, mainly for users outside the business. These reports are used by owners, potential owners of a business, and by people who have loaned a company money. Some government agencies that regulate business and the stock market require companies to submit financial statements to them. Additionally, stockholders, suppliers, and banks also benefit from the financial reports that are generated. (Horngr...
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Political And Social Accounting Standards
1,137 words'The view that accounting standard setters consider the economic, political and social consequences of accounting standards is consistent with the view that accounting reports, if compiled in accordance with accounting standards and other generally accepted principles, will be neutral and objective's YNOPSIS Objectivity and neutrality are the ultimate goals of general purpose financial reporting. However there are many factors involved that make this goal almost impossible to attain. Economic, p...
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Balance Sheet Financial Statements
1,176 wordsIt is expected that the accountancy profession would play quite an important role in scandals such as Enron, Xerox, and Worldcom, as all they all deal with the financial accounts not showing a true and fair view the company. Hence it is the role of accountants to prepare and check the financial statements. Therefore I feel that in the essay it is worth analyzing who exactly in the accountancy profession was responsible for each action in scandals, and show how 'accountants move easily from watch...
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Financial Statements Accounting Standards
1,138 words... t-off fraud. 'Under SAB 1010 issued 1999, the SEC established four main criteria for proper revenue recognition: evidence than an arrangement between a buyer and a seller exists, delivery of a product or rendering of a service, a set or determinable price, and an insurance that payment can be collected. ' (Revenue recognition) WorldCom, the nation's second-largest long-distance phone company was also found guilty of accounting fraud. The basis of this fraud was very similar to that of Enron ...
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Becoming A Cpa Certified Public Accountant Job Profile
1,394 wordsWhat is a CPA? These three letters mean that you have received a broad-based education. They mean you have passed all parts of a very difficult exam. They mean you have the knowledge, skills and abilities to be a trusted business advisor to your clients or employer. They mean you feel comfortable with the latest technology. They mean you are an ethical individual who can provide an independent analysis. CPA's are many things. They are chief financial officers for Fortune 500 companies and adviso...
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Fair Market Value Period Of Time
1,222 words2. 1 Introduction Accounting concepts and conventions as used in accountancy are the rules and guidelines by which the accountant lives. The historical cost accounting convention is an accounting technique that values an asset for balance sheet purposes at the price paid for the asset at the time of its acquisition. The historical cost accounting is the situation in which accountants record revenue, expenditure and asset acquisition and disposal at historical cost: that is, the actual amounts of...
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Public Relations Practitioners Code Of Ethics
1,166 words... unica tors (IABC), and the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). Members of these organizations are expected to follow these sets of standards. Next, licensing would be a states function, and public relations people often work on a national and international basis. Furthermore, the machinery required for the government to license and police all public relations practitioners in this country would be elaborate and very costly to the American taxpayer. In a final argument, proponents reas...
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Fair Value Five Years
475 wordsCollege: Lecturer: Course: Date: Summary and response Outline of contents Contents Page Abstract 3 Stimulus Bill Bites Losing Companies Summary 3 Response 4 FASB Adds Fair-Value Fix to 2009 Agenda Summary 4 Response 5 Abstract This paper is a summary of two articles posted on the internet in these sites respectively: 1. web? f = archives 2. web? f = archives 1. Stimulus Bill Bites Losing Companies Summary Under the title Stimulus bill bites losing companies, Marie Leone describes how a recent pr...
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Code Of Ethics Financial Statements
799 wordsEnron Scandal. One of the biggest scandals that shocked America and the entire world was that the fall of Enron. There are some reasons of the Enron's collapse major of which are the insider trading, the disgraceful phenomenon of spreading the confidential information at a stock exchanges, false financial statements, hiding the profit etc. Concerning the financial faults there were a full set of the moral, ethic and legal rules violations. What is more the auditing company got involved into the ...
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Future Cash Flows Taking Into Account
624 wordsFinancial Accounting Standards For a long time present value measurements have been created with accounting valuation. While studying them, several accounting standards were issued. FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board) understood the importance of present value measurements, integrating with accounting valuation; and issued SFAC 7 (Statement of Financial Accounting Concepts) in 2000. It had information about usage of cash flow information and present value in accounting measurements. New ...
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Accounting Standards Financial Statements
1,335 wordsTable of Contents. Theoretical aspects of accounting and the main principles of accounting. The special accounting standards in European Union. The future of accounting standards. 1. Theoretical aspects of accounting and the main principles of accounting. For fairly and consistently financial statement every national or multinational company needed accounting standards and describe the financial performance. Without standards, users of financial statements would need to learn accounting rules of...
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Conceptual Framework Financial Accounting
1,610 wordsLaw and Economics Agency theory is a good explanation for costs of capital. Agency theory defines contracts as under which one party called principal engages another party called the agent to perform service on the principals behalf. Concluding, the principal delegates decision-making authority to the agent. Both sides of the contract are utility maximises and the agent will not necessarily act in the principals best interests. This leads to the rise of agency costs. Agency costs are the welfare...
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Minorities And Women Accounting Profession
373 wordsThis article is an account of a panel discussion concerning diversity among the accounting profession. Minorities and Women continue to be underrepresented in the accounting profession. There are a few different reasons why this is so; ? a lack of knowledge among minorities about a CPA career, or a? glass ceiling? , that discourages entry into the profession or leads to an early departure; and competition from other professions? . All of the panelists questioned felt that minorities were not wel...
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