...ACCT 8530, ADVANCED ACCOUNTING PROBLEMS Fall 2015 Section 003, 12:30-2:00 PM, Tuesday and Thursday, Greenville ONE Room 603 Suzanne Pearse, CPA. Office: 836 Greenville ONE Office Hours: 9:30-11:00 AM, Tuesday and Thursday and by appointment Office Phone: 864 656-0131 Email: spearse@clemson.edu Required Materials: Text: Hoyle, J. B., Schaefer, T. F, and Doupnik, T. S. Advanced Accounting, 12th ed. (custom print with ConnectPlus access), McGraw-Hill Create, ISBN: 9781308536347. Software: McGraw-Hill Connect Plus Course Description Study of specialized aspects of financial reporting, including business combinations and emerging practices and developments in financial accounting. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the MPAcc program. Course Objectives and Learning Outcomes Students completing this course will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the financial reporting framework used by business enterprises as it relates to partnerships, variable interest entities, and parent and subsidiary companies. Specifically, you will learn the accounting procedures and reporting requirements for: partnership formation, operation, cessation and liquidation; the treatment of variable interest entities, and combining corporate entities; and the preparation of consolidated financial statements for domestic parents with domestic and foreign subsidiaries...
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...Managing Growth Simulation Mutaher Hussain FIN 571 December 14, 2014 Susanne Elliott Introduction The simulation has uncovered the position of financial data and intelligence to observe the works of the Sunflower Nutracuetical, or SNC Company. The simulation chronologically goes through the common theories that have to be made influencing the working capital and organizational development. The data and numbers in the simulation support the perception of the yearly growth. At all individual phases of the SNC simulation, a conclusion is made which is then explored for its projected influences on the working capital, and in the finale a comprehensive summary of the effects of all the phase assertions on the entire establishment is documented. SNC Background SNC is a privately maintained firm that generates and trades dietary and herbal supplements, particularly vitamins and minerals (Harvard Business School Publishing, 2012). The market for the merchandises of SNC commonly consist of women and older individuals. The corporate was started in 2006, and constantly since has increased its operations into innovative product markets, engineering and marketing its SNC-branded energy and sports drinks, vitamin powder, metabolism-enhancing...
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...covers 10 competencies and represents 3 competency units. Introduction Overview In this course, you will be challenged with learning about the integration of activities that comprise a supply chain, from manufacturing goods through retailer sales. Understanding and proactive management of a supply chain is a key skill set for today's business executive. This course focuses on supply chain and distribution channel decisions within a global environment. The Marketplace Business Fundamentals simulation will provide you with the opportunity to apply, in a setting that simulates a real-world environment, a variety of business decisions that must be made when managing a business as a component of a supply chain. Watch the following video for an introduction to this course: Note: View the video in full screen at 720p for best results. Competencies This course provides guidance to help you demonstrate the following 10 competencies: * Competency 326.1.5: Budgets The graduate utilizes budgets and a variety of pro-forma statements for planning and control purposes including analyzing cash flows to assure adequacy of funds for capitalizing on business opportunities. * Competency 327.3.1: Continuous Improvement and Quality Management The graduate applies quality management methods for continuous improvement and proposes various quality improvements in an organization. * Competency 329.4.1: Operational Design The graduate designs capacity, process, layout, and location strategies...
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...The Value of Becker CPA program Rajesh Varghese Devry University Management 550 Dr William Willette January 20, 2014 The Value of Becker CPA program Who is Becker Professional Education Becker Professional Education is now a subsidiary of Devry Inc. Becker offers training programs in the areas of accounting, finance, project management and healthcare. Becker professional Education is best known for its CPA preparation program. History Becker program was started by Newton. D. Becker in 1957. He was an accountant working for Price water house & Company. He originally prepared this program for training his fellow employees who was preparing for CPA exam. After its launch as an independent company in 1960, it started growing very fast. By 1980 it had class room locations in more than 90 cities across United States. Devry institute purchased the program from the original owner.(Ziemba, 1996). Newton. D. Becker worked for Becker professional program till 1998. Role of Becker Professional Education The Becker CPA preparation program is the number one preparation program for passing the CPA exam. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has estimated that more than 400000 people who took the course has passed CPA exam (Tysiac, 2012). So many big organizations have partnered with Becker for their employee training. The Becker CPA program has most up-to-date syllabus for the CPA exam. It consists of lectures, text books, both class room and online...
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...Business Law 531 Legal Forms of Business Lyneeta A. Johnson University of Phoenix October 1, 2012 Christine Benway Legal Forms of Business Starting a business is an exciting event for a business owner; it signifies the beginning of a business venture expected to be successful. Choosing an industry, identifying the target market, and developing a business strategy can be time consuming, however; the rewards outweigh the work. Deciding what legal form of business to operate can be a difficult decision for entrepreneurs because of the requirements that must be met for each legal form of business. Following is a discussion about the different forms of business. A scenario simulation for each form of business including justification for the preferred business form is also present. Sole Proprietorship According to Cheeseman (2010, p. 529) “an entrepreneur is a person who forms and operates a business.” An entrepreneur starting a business independently is a form of sole proprietorship. The owner of the business is the sole proprietor. A recent college graduate who opens a mobile dog grooming service is an excellent example of a sole proprietorship. The graduate who has experience with animals from walking dogs in the neighborhood to gain extra income would be ideal...
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...Problems, | | |Checkpoints |and Simulations | | | | | |Understand general ethics and a series of steps for making ethical |1, 2, 3, 4 |54 | |decisions. | | | | | | | |Reason through an ethical decision problem using the imperative, | |55, 56, 57 | |utilitarian and generalization principles of moral philosophy. | | | | | | | |Identify the different entities that make ethics rules for CPAs and |5, 6 | | |public accounting firms. | | | |...
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...MGMT 4900 Strategy, Policy and Planning Spring 2015 TuTh 12:30 – 1:45pm, BUSN 218 Instructor: | Xian Cao | E-mail: | Xian.Cao@Business.Uconn.Edu | Office:Phone: | School of Business 404(860)486-6423 | Office Hours: | TuTh 1:45 – 2:45pm and By Appointment | I. Course Description and Objectives Course Description: A strategy is an integrated and coordinated commitment designed to exploit a firm’s core competencies. Managers use a strategy to identify market opportunities, analyze competitors, and determine among competing alternatives to enhance the performance of their firms. A strategic decision requires managers to use resources appropriately with respect to external environments in order to help their firms create unique firm value and gain competitive advantages. In this sense, a strategy tells managers what the firm will do as well as what the firm will not do. MGMT 4900 introduces the key concepts, tools and principals of strategic management. It requires you to have an interdisciplinary perspective that uses the ideas, concepts, and theories from your functional courses such as Accounting, Economics, Finance, Marketing, Organizational Behavior, and Statistics. It requires you to take a general management perspective to evaluate and analyze policies in each above functional area and integrate them into an overall competitive strategy. Learning Objectives: * Clearly...
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...An Introduction to Business ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— 6 th edition Learning about business concepts with the Foundation™ simulation University of Oregon Lundquist College of Business Dave Dusseau Douglas Wilson Copyright © 2004-2011 David Dusseau and Douglas Wilson This material was developed by: David Dusseau, Ph.D. Doug Wilson, MBA Lundquist College of Business University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon 97403-1208 Foundation™ is a trademark of Management Simulations, Inc.™ and was developed by: Management Simulations, Inc. 540 Frontage Road, Suite 3270 Northfield, Illinois 60039 847-501-2888 www.capsim.com ____________________________________________________________ _______________ An Introduction to Business 2 Table of Contents Chapter A Prolog . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 . . . . . . Page 1 Private Enterprise: An Economic System . . . . . . . 3 Foundation Exercise 1 . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Marketing: Concept and Application . . Foundation Exercise 2 . . . . . Foundation Exercise 3 . . . . . Foundation Exercise 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 28 41 51 3 Accounting: A Business Information System . . . . . 61 Foundation Exercise 5 . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Foundation Exercise 6 . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Production: Improving Productivity and Performance . . 91 Foundation Exercise 7 . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Foundation Exercise 8 . . ....
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...questions that they may encounter when they complete the comprehensive BUS/475 Final Exam in Week Five. The student version of the sample Final does not include the correct answers (as marked below in red). Please feel free to share the sample final questions and answers with your students. |Accounting | |Financial accounting | | |Conceptual foundations | | |Income statement and statement of retained | | |earnings | | |Balance sheet | | |Statement of cash flows | |Managerial accounting | | |Cost concepts | | |Product costing systems | | |Activities-based costing | | |Cost, volume, and profit analysis | | |Budgeting (except capital budgeting covered | | |under finance) | | |Standard costing | | |Non-routine decision-making | |International accounting* | 1. Which of the following is NOT an element of manufacturing overhead? a. Factory employee’s salary b. Depreciation on the factory c. Plant manager’s salary d. Factory repairman’s wages 2. What accounts are NOT classified in the current...
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...BUS/475 Sample Final Exam |Accounting | |Financial accounting | | |Conceptual foundations | | |Income statement and statement of retained | | |earnings | | |Balance sheet | | |Statement of cash flows | |Managerial accounting | | |Cost concepts | | |Product costing systems | | |Activities-based costing | | |Cost, volume, and profit analysis | | |Budgeting (except capital budgeting covered | | |under finance) | | |Standard costing | | |Nonroutine decision making | |International accounting* | 1. Which of the following is NOT an element of manufacturing overhead? a. Factory employee’s salary b. Depreciation on the factory c. Plant manager’s salary d. Factory repairperson’s wages 2. What accounts are NOT classified in the current assets section of the balance sheet? a. Cash b. Accounts payable c. Security deposits d. Inventory 3. The starting point of a master budget is the preparation of the a. cash budget...
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...Curriculum Course Modules | Simulations | Video Harvard Business Publishing serves the finest learning institutions worldwide with a comprehensive catalog of case studies, journal articles, books, and elearning programs, including online courses and simulations. In addition to material from Harvard Business School and Harvard Business Review, we also offer course material from these renowned institutions and publications: ABCC at Nanyang Tech University Babson College Berrett-Koehler Publishers Business Enterprise Trust Business Expert Press Business Horizons California Management Review Crimson Group USA Darden School of Business Design Management Institute European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) Haas School of Business Harvard Kennedy School of Government Harvard Medical School/Global Health Delivery HEC Montréal Centre for Case Studies IESE Business School Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Indian School of Business INSEAD International Institute for Management Development (IMD) Ivey Publishing Journal of Information Technology Kellogg School of Management McGraw-Hill MIT Sloan Management Review North American Case Research Association (NACRA) Perseus Books Princeton University Press Rotman Magazine Social Enterprise Knowledge Network Stanford Graduate School of Business Thunderbird School of Global...
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...TAB B TOPICS: THE CASE OF ENRON REQUIRED: After reading the case and articles in the Tab B readings, answer the questions below. You should download this document and include the question above your answer to make it easier to grade. Your answers should be in complete sentences. Based on the nature of the questions, one or two short paragraphs for each question should be adequate. You should print out your article write-up and submit it in class on the due date. 1. What was the nature of Enron’s business in 1985? How about in 2000? In 1985, it was a natural gas pipeline company. By 2000, it built leading businesses in energy trading and international energy-asset construction. 2. How could Enron earn money by trading in gas contracts? They would buy natural gas at spot prices instead of bundles (which was what was required before the deregulation of gas). This made the price of gas more volatile. Skilling suggested that Enron sell the gas in long-term fixed-price contracts with customers. To prevent the company from losing money due to price fluctuations, Enron would also enter long-term fixed-price contracts with producers by using swaps and forward and future contracts to make sure it met the energy requirements of customers. 3. Enron expanded its trading model to markets other than gas. What other markets did they expand into? Were there any concerns from expanding to these other markets? They...
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...CORPORATE E-LEARNING: EXPLORING A NEW FRONTIER Trace A. Urdan Cornelia C. Weggen turdan@wrhambrecht.com cweggen@wrhambrecht.com 415.551.8600 “In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” Eric Hoffer, in Vanguard Management, 1989 2 March 2000 Equity Research TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary .....................................................................................................................................1 Education in the 21 Century – Creating a Learning Economy.......................................................................2 Why e-Learning?...........................................................................................................................................3 The Solution – Bring Learning to People .......................................................................................................6 Definitions – e-Learning versus Online Learning ............................................................................................8 Key Trends – The End of Learning as We Know It ........................................................................................10 The Corporate e-Learning Market – The Pie is Big ......................................................................................13 Market Segmentation – Claiming a Stake on the New Frontier ................................
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...broad and complex topic. To make this topic more manageable, boundaries will be defined. First, because of the vast number of activities relating to management information systems, a total review is not possible. Those discussed here is only a partial sampling of activities, reflecting the author's viewpoint of the more common and interesting developments. Likewise where there were multiple effects in a similar area of development, only selected ones will be used to illustrate concepts. This is not to imply one effort is more important than another. Also, the main focus of this paper will be on information systems for use at the farm level and to some lesser extent systems used to support researchers addressing farm level problems (e.g., simulation or optimization models, geographic information systems, etc.) and those used to support agribusiness firms that supply goods and services to agricultural producers and the supply chain beyond the production phase. Secondly, there are several frameworks that can be used to define and describe management information systems. More than one will be used to discuss important concepts. Because more than one is used, it indicates the difficult of capturing the key concepts of what is a management information system. Indeed, what is viewed as an effective and useful management information system is one environment may not be of use or value in another. Lastly, the historical perspective of management information systems cannot be ignored....
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...Engagement Planning LEARNING OBJECTIVES | Review Checkpoints | Exercises, Problems and Simulations | 1. List and describe the activities auditors undertake before beginning an engagement. | 1, 2, 3, 4 | 53, 54, 55, 62, 66 | 2. Identify the procedures and sources of information auditors can use to obtain knowledge of a client’s business and industry. | 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 | 52, 56, 59, 65 | 3. Perform analytical procedures to identify potential problems. | 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 | 47, 48, 49, 51, 58, 63, 64 | 4. List and discuss matters of planning auditors should consider for clients who use computers and describe how a computer can be used as an audit tool. | 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 | 57, 60 | 5. Review audit documentation for proper form and content. | 23, 24, 25 | 50, 61 | SOLUTIONS FOR REVIEW CHECKPOINTS 4.1 A CPA can use the following sources of information to help decide whether to accept a new audit client. Financial information prepared by the prospective client: * Annual reports to shareholders * Interim financial statements * Securities registration statements * Annual report on SEC Form 10K * Reports to regulatory agencies Inquiries directed to the prospect's business associates: * Banker * Legal counsel * Underwriter * Other persons, e.g., customers...
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