embodies a duty or responsibility 2. There is little or no discretion to avoid a future transfer or use of assets to satisfy the obligation, and 3. The obligating event has already occurred. In June 2001 the FASB issued a Statement No. 143, Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations requiring entities to record liabilities for tangible, long-lived assets that must be retired or disposed of in a specified way by law or contract. Such liabilities are known as Asset Retirement Obligations (AROs)
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Harunur Rashid Professor Department of Accounting and Information Systems University of Chittagong Submitted by Md. Ariful Hoque B.B.A. (Hons.): 4th Year. Class Roll: 4541 Exam Roll: 2004 /42 Session: 2003-2004 Department of Accounting and Information Systems University of Chittagong Date of submission: August 25, 2009 Letter of Submission To Dr. Harunur Rashid Professor Department of Accounting and Information Systems University
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manner and the firm is meeting its objective of generating the maximum profit. Information reporting is also important for audit purpose and to present to the government or other regulatory agencies to ensure that the firm is following the general accounting standards set. Hence information plays a major role in the decision making process and should be timely, accurate and complete to ensure all issues and key performance indicators are accounted for and the right decision can be
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Ed Kiefer Chapter 4 4-5 10500-8500/900000-300000 2000/600000= .003 8500-(.003x300000) Low 8500-900=7600 Copies 20500-(.003x900000) High 20500-2700=17800 Copies 4.8 Variable costs Staff Salaries 33000 Office supplies 300 Total 33300 Fixed costs Manager salaries 8000 Dep of equip 400 Share of building Costs 2000 Total 10400 Variable Total
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Chapter 8 Activity-based costing Problems with conventional product costing systems General features of conventional product costing systems Direct material and direct labour costs are traced to products Manufacturing overhead costs are allocated to products using a predetermined overhead rate Manufacturing overhead rate is calculated using some measure of production volume Non-manufacturing costs are not assigned to products
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The Difference Between Managerial Accounting and Financial Accounting ACC 560 Term Paper In this term paper the author will discuss Managerial Accounting and the components of Managerial Accounting. The author will also compare the different components of financial accounting compared to managerial accounting. According to McGraw Hill, Managerial Accounting is concerned with providing information to managers, people inside an organization who direct and control
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Uitwerking Case 8-1 Allied Office Products Door: Joey de Klerk (481002) en Roel van Berkel (468870) Introductie Allied Office Products is a large corporation that builds its reputation on its annual sales of $900 million in business forms and specialty in paper products. Its paper products vary from envelopes to greeting cards and writing papers. Allied has incorporated a new program called Total Forms Controls (TFC) for its clients enabling Allied to separate this business forms division
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Riordan’s Finance & Accounting Riordan Manufacturing has three operating locations Georgia, Michigan, and California plus a joint venture in Hangzhou, China. Basically, the operating entities each have their own Finance & Accounting Systems and they provide input that is consolidated at Corporate San Jose. Riordan’s F & A system supports several parts of their operation that includes general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, order entry, procurement, sales and purchasing
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RJET TASK 4 A1. COSTING METHOD Activity based costing or ABC accounting as it is called distributes manufacturing overhead costs to products in a smarter way than in the traditional way. This way of simply assigning costs on the basis of machine hours. Activity based costing assigns costs first to the activities that make up the real overhead. Then it assigns a cost to the activities that affect only the products produce. ABC vs Traditional Costing This is one main difference between ABC (Activity
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COSTING METHOD ADOPTED BY ASIAN PAINTS INTRODUCTION: Asian Paints is India’s largest paint company and Asia’s third largest paint company, with a turnover of Rs 77.06 billion. The group has an enviable reputation in the corporate world for professionalism, fast track growth, and building shareholder equity. Asian Paints operates in 17 countries and has 24 paint manufacturing facilities in the world servicing consumers in over 65 countries. Besides Asian Paints, the group operates around the
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