ACC00146 Management Accounting Unit Information Guide Session 1 2012 © 2012 Southern Cross University Southern Cross University Military Road East Lismore NSW 2480 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher. Copyright material indicated in this work has been copied under Part VB of the Copyright Act 1968
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I. INTRODUCTION This IDoc describes use of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to model and document Accounting Information Systems (AIS). The objective of modeling AIS is multifaceted and can be to: visualize, understand, summarize, detail, analyze, design, develop, implement, operate, secure, control, or audit the AIS. UML is a powerful modeling language and technique for all of these modeling tasks and is more robust and semantically superior to the commonly used Structured Analysis (SA) modeling
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1. What are the four major types of firm in the U.S, how are they defined, and what are the key differences between them? I understand from the course text that within the context of corporate finance the four types of firms in the U.S. are sole proprietorship, limited liability companies, partnerships and corporations (Berk & DeMarzo, 2011). These four firms are fundamentally different in their makeup and operations. To begin with a corporation is a legally defined artificial being with legal powers
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We are looking at employee fraud and the identification of the fraud and the classifications. In this case, we are looking at an employee who first paid for a family meal with a company credit card and then submitted the receipt for reimbursement of his business expenses. In my opinion this behavior is fraud. First, the company has already paid for these meals with the co-worker’s family by the employee using his corporate credit card to pay for these meals. The amount of the receipt has no
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continuing responsibility to cooperate with each other to improve the art of accounting, maintain the public's confidence, and carry out the profession's special responsibilities for self-governance. We worked in this paper about the ethical dilemmas using an ethical framework, the AICPA code of rules and interpretation on independence and it’s importance and the requirements of other rules under the AICPA. We found that in some cases the rules of conduct is applied accurately and in other situations
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[pic] MGT/521 Scavenger Hunt Week One Topic One—Scavenger Hunt 1 Scavenger Hunt The Scavenger Hunt is designed to familiarize you with the myriad of tools provided by the University of Phoenix to assist in your success. For example, did you know that the University of Phoenix Library contains thousands of up-to-date journals, newspapers, industry reports, and research databases? This Scavenger Hunt will send you on a search to answer 14 questions similar to the following question:
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While some might categorize accounting as a matter of strict principles, numbers and exactitude, there are people who disagree and argue that there is a creative side to it. The article “Creative Accounting: How to Buff a Company” by Ken Brown elaborates on it. Summary Accounting has never been an exact science; yet, auditors often face the situations where their judgment is required. This judgment must be applied to hundreds of transactions, depending on the company. While doing this, they do
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WEBSTER UNIVERSITY • WESTPORT, ST LOUIS, MO • GEORGE HERBERT WALKER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS & T ECHNOLOGY • BUSINESS DEPARTMENT BASIC FINANCE FOR MANAGERS BUSN5200 SU 2015 Section 07 3 Credits 06/01/2015 to 07/31/2015 Modified 05/20/2015 MEETING TIMES Thursday, 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM, Westport Campus CONTACT INFORMATION Mike Boland Email: michaelboland57@webster.edu (mailto:michaelboland57@webster.edu) Phone: 6362363636 DESCRIPTION Managers and human resources management
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Case 1 Warren E. Buffett, 1995 How is Berkshire Hathaway’s business composition from Exhibit 1 different or similar today? Be specific. Provide an overall statement to describe Berkshire Hathaway’s performance over time compared to the S&P 500. Can you discern a trend in the investment decisions of Mr. Buffett and are his decisions consistent with the principals learned from his mentor Dr. Graham? Based on the types of company’s that BK now owns, have the Acquisition Criteria been
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. Managerial Accounting (ACC560) 04/25/2015 Introduction Activity-Based Costing (ABC), a costing system which is more reliable than traditional cost accounting, has been implemented in manufacturing companies for more than a decade. In many cases, the ABC implementation has contributed substantially to a more efficient use of overhead resources, and therefore, has led to an impressive cost savings. Many service companies, in their experience of high overhead and high capital cost
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