Ethical Issues In Accounting

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    Advanced Auditing

    1. Discuss whether or not CPAs who provide accounting, taxation, and related services to small business have a responsibility to serve as the “moral conscience” of their clients. The accounting profession requires ethical behavior in order to maintain the public trust. Ethical problems and dilemma arise when there is a conflict in fulfilling the moral duties or obligations and self interest. Therefore the CPA and public accountants are required to act in the line with the standards and code of

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    Reporting Practices and Ethics Paper

    Paper Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) represent the general rules, standards, and practices that are used in accounting. GAAP are required for businesses when reporting financial records. When preparing financial statements, a company’s accountant is mandated to use these principles before they issue these statements to investors and other entities outside of the business. The objective for these standards are to assist in ensuring that ethical accounting practices occur wherein investors

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    Unethical Practices and Behavior in Accounting Name Institution Course Tutor Date Unethical Practices and Behavior in Accounting The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 was passed by the congress to protect investors from fraudulent accounting activities by organizations (Hart, 2009). Investors depend on the information that they receive from accountants to make investment decisions and hence if incorrect information is provided, the investors make inaccurate decisions, which could be costly

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    Ethics in Accountancy Case Analysis

    Ethics in Accountancy Case Analysis Case 2-5: Eating Time 1. Frame the ethical issue: Should Kevin Lowe “eat time” by taking work home and not record the time? 2. Gathering all the facts: * Kevin Lowe is a new staff accountant at Stooges LLP * Kevin took 50% longer to complete audit work than his predecessor. * Stooges LLP is on a fixed budget for these audits. * Bo Chambers and Moe Chambers are partners supervising Kevin. * Bo and Mo explicitly say that they do not

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    Forensic Accounting Practice

    Forensic Accounting Practice Bradford Clark Professor Dr. Hanners Lithonia Campus BUS 508 – Contemporary Business March 1, 2012 Strayer University Determine the most important five (5) skills that a forensic accountant needs to possess and evaluate the need for each skill. Be sure to include discussion regarding the relationship between the skill and its application to business operations. A forensic accountant is a specialist in accounting and financial systems that is trained to detect

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    Issues in Accounting Ethics

    Issues in Accounting Ethics ETH 557: Accounting Ethics September 14, 2015 Ethical Issues for Companies As an accountant and being in the public or the private sector you have to remain loyal to your clients and to be loyal to the ethical guidelines and rules when it comes to a company or and individual person financial records for the purpose of reporting. Being an accountant you will run across some unethical issues and this would be regardless of the type of industry and

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    Acca

    Cash grant for PPE (W1) Purchase of subsidiary (30 – 2) (W2) Proceeds from sale of PPE (W1) Dividend received from associate (W3) Purchase of associate (W3) Net cash flows used by investing activities Cash flows from financing activities Proceeds of issue of share capital Repayment of long-term borrowings Dividends paid Non-controlling interest dividend Net cash generated by financing activities Net increase in cash and cash equivalents Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period Cash and cash

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    Career Opportunities in Accounting

    Career Opportunities in Accounting Christopher Trahan Accounting 100 Michael Kapral December 10, 2014 “Accounting consists of three basics activities, it identifies, records, and communicates the economics events of an organization to interested users.” (Weygandt, 2013, p. 4). The primary function of accounting is to record business transactions and provide financial reports for a variety of different business processes. There are many duties that fall under the accounting umbrella and many different

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    Notes

    LIFA 1.1 WHAT IS ACCOUNTING? · Accounting- an information system that identifies, measures, records and communicates understandable, relevant, reliable, and comparable information about an organization’s economic activities. · Recordkeeping, or bookkeeping, is the recording of financial transactions, either manually or electronically, for the purpose of creating a reliable bank of data · Primary objective of accounting- to provide useful info for decision-making · Accounting info results from

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    Mgt230 Week 2 Notes

    Ch. 4 Notes Situational Analysis - A process planners use, within time and resource constraints, to gather, interpret, and summarize all information relevant to the planning issue under consideration. Goal - A target or end that management desires to reach. Plans - The actions or means managers intend to use to achieve organizational goals. Scenario - A narrative that describes a particular set of future conditions. Tying plans to a firm’s financials is a key element of success. Bottom

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