CHAPTER 3 LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying Chapter 3, you should be able to: Distinguish between process costing and job-order costing and identify companies that would use each costing method. 2. Identify the documents used in a job-order costing system. 3. Compute predetermined overhead rates and explain why estimated overhead costs (rather than actual overhead costs) are used in the costing process. 4. Record the journal entries that reflect the flow of costs
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Chapter 5- Regulators Securities and Exchange Commission- protects investors and maintains integrity of the securities market- Oversees FASB and PCAOB FASB- Financial Accounting Standards Board- sets GAAP PCAOB- (public company oversight board) - sets auditing standards for CPA's Management of a company has responsibility for financial statements and related disclosures Board of Directors (audit committee) is responsible for ensuring that processes are in place for maintaining the integrity
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MBA7001 Accounting for Decision-Makers Week 6 Lecture – Capital Investment Appraisal Slide 10.2 Chapter 10 Making capital investment decisions LEARNING OUTCOMES CHAPTER 10: Investment Appraisal Methods You should be able to: Explain the nature and importance of investment decision making First hour – 23.11.11 Identify the four main investment appraisal methods found in practice •Payback •ARR Use each method to reach a decision on a particular investment opportunity Discuss the attributes
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01/09/2013 International Accounting, 7/e Frederick D.S. Choi Gary K. Meek Chapter 6: Foreign Currency Ch 6 F i C Translation 1 Learning Objectives Why do firms translate from one currency to another? What is the difference between a spot forward and swap spot, forward, transaction? What exchange rates are used in the currency translation process and what are their financial statement effects? How does a translation gain or loss differ from a transactions gain or loss?
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Management Accounting 2 ACCT3583: Seminar 1 Administration Seminar 1 – Analysing the External Environment Welcome to ACCT3583 – Management Accounting 2! We will begin with a course overview – referring to the ACCT3583 Course Outline Outline. This is an opportunity to discuss learning outcomes, assessments and general course admin., as well as providing a subject overview We will then cover Topic 1: Analysing the External Environment 2 ACCT3583 Management Accounting 2 ACCT3583
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Recommended exercises and solutions for chapter 1 and chapter 2 Chapter 1 E1.3 Buy or Sell? Value = $850 + $675 = $1,525 million Value per share = $1,525/25 = $61 Market price = $45 Therefore, BUY! Chapter 2 E2.1. Applying Accounting Relations: Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Equity Statement a. Liabilities = Assets – Shareholder’s equity = $400 - $250 = $150 million b. Net Income = Revenues –
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An Analysis of Accounting Ethics Anna Aspras ACC 770 Proposal Hunter College INTRODUCTION Ethics refers to the discipline that deals with the bad and the good and also with the moral duties as well as moral obligations (Stolowy and Breton 2004). As Weidmann and Lenzen (2006) points out, ethics entails doing the right thing. Accounting ethics is mainly in the area of applied ethics and at the same time, it is also a part of business ethics as well as human ethics. It is worth pointing out that the
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XBRL: THE NEW REPORTING XBRL: The New Reporting Julie Mercer Strayer University Chapter One Introduction This chapter consists of research ideas relating to eXtensible Business Reporting Language or XBRL, also how the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are moving towards this type of reporting. The chapter consists of context of the problem, statement of the problem, research question and sub-questions
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affecting companies. Study Session 1 Ethical and Professional Standards Reading Assignments 1.* “Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct” Standards of Practice Handbook, 9th edition (CFA Institute, 2005) * 2. “Guidance” for Standards I – VII, Standards of Practice Handbook, 9th edition (CFA Institute, 2005) * 3. Introduction to the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®), pp. i–iii and 1–9, (CFA Institute, 4.* 2005)
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F U N A C C O CHAPTER 1 DEFINITION AND NATURE OF ACCOUNTING Accounting – its function is to provide quantitative information, primarily financial in nature, about economic entities that is intended to be useful in making economic decisions. Stakeholders – all parties who have interest in an entity, whether indirect or direct. Stakeholders are grouped into two, namely: * External Users – groups or individuals who are not directly concerned with the day-to-day operations of the entity
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