September 9, 2013 Accounting is the information system which records, summarizes, and reports the underlying economic conditions of an entity. Financial accounting is used to report this information to external parties [managerial accounting is to use this information internally]. Financial statements are management’s report to owners. 3 profit-seeking entities: Sole proprietorship simple to establish, owner controlled Unlimited liability (no legal separation). All profits and
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verify your LLC has been accepted by the IRS as a partnership. Code Sec. 448 permits that a LLC can be cash based for tax purposes. The alternative is electing to be accrual based. This is important as to the timing of your income from the law suit. The $300,000 will constitute income in this subject tax year if you are cash based since this is when you received it. However, under accrual method, you could have billed for services over the two years and the “right to receive” that income would
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This section discussed the previous reviews of literatures related to the topic. The focus of this study is to test whether the market-perceived audit quality captures actual audit quality. It also investigates the relationships among actual audit quality measured by a post hoc identification of auditor failures and earnings management as well as financial analysts’ forecast errors. Prior literature in audit quality, earnings management and financial analysts’ forecast errors are reviewed in this
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Direct and Indirect Cash Flows Companies will typically prepare a cash flow statement every month to determine when it can be expected that an inflow of cash will begin. Officially, these are known as the statement of cash flows. An accounting department can choose from two different methods to prepare the cash flow statements, these are the direct and indirect methods. Each of these methods will approach the reporting of cash flow from different angles, but each method will result if the same
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1.1 Origin of the Report As part of the term paper of Evening Masters of Business Administration (EMBA) course requirement, we are assigned the topic “Carbon Accounting” by our course teacher for accomplishing our report. 1.2 Objectives of the report ➢ To attain the skill of report writing. ➢ To achieve deep knowledge about Carbon Accounting. ➢ To fulfill the partial requirement of our course of Accounting for Managers. 1.3 Methodology of the report This study was a descriptive
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To: Incoming MBA Students, 2015 Full-Time Program (0101 and 0201) From: Professor Rebecca Hann Faculty Coordinator for BUSI 610: Introduction to Financial Accounting Re: Pre-term Course from Harvard Business School Publishing Date: June 3, 2015 BUSI 610, Introduction to Financial Accounting, is one of the Core courses that you will take in Fall 2015. This course is designed to help you become an informed user of financial statements. Given the duration of the term, we will be moving
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balance and outstanding debt of the health care organization. According to Finkler, Kovner, & Jones (2007), “A few of the most common and important GAAP include the following: entity concept, going-concern concept, matching principle and cash versus accrual accounting, cost principle, objective evidence, materiality, consistency and full disclosure” (p. 183). The entity concept is the unit that is being accounted for. Entities can be the whole organization (i.e. nursing home, nursing school
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ACCT 212 Final Exam (DEVRY) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 4 Times, Rating: A+ At the end of the period it is necessary to close all temporary accounts. (1) Explain why this process is required (10 points) and (2) provide an example of the closing of an expense account, Supplies Expense in the form of a journal entry 2. (TCO 2) As required to complete Course Project 1, one must follow the cycle that includes 10 steps to complete the accounting cycle
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ACCT 212 Final Exam (DEVRY) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 4 Times, Rating: A+ At the end of the period it is necessary to close all temporary accounts. (1) Explain why this process is required (10 points) and (2) provide an example of the closing of an expense account, Supplies Expense in the form of a journal entry 2. (TCO 2) As required to complete Course Project 1, one must follow the cycle that includes 10 steps to complete the accounting cycle
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Journal of Accounting and Economics 31 (2001) 255–307 Empirical research on accounting choice$ Thomas D. Fieldsa, Thomas Z. Lysb,*, Linda Vincentb b Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02163, USA Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA Received 21 January 2000; received in revised form 31 January 2001 a Abstract We review research from the 1990s that examines the determinants and consequences of accounting
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