II. CLASSIFICATION OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION/ ACCOUNTING DISCIPLINES 1. The Accounting Profession The accounting profession may be divided into two disciplines, namely private accounting and public accounting. a) Private accounting These are accountants employed by a business firm or a NGO- frequently called management accountants. b) Public accounting This provides services on a fee basis. An accountant may practice as an individual or as a member of a public accounting
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You Are an Entrepreneur! ACC 557 Abstract Being a full time working mom with a house, husband and grad school to attend to, it does not give me a great deal of free time to pursue my lifetime goal of opening up my own day care center. Today, I have decided to turn that goal into a business finally with the support of my friends and family. However, I do need to obtain start-up capital from a lender or from an investor. My goal is to properly convince the lender or investor
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Gino Corasaniti Ethics Paper ACC223 11/20/11 In the accounting community, the AICPA is the certification issuing body for the CPA, and the IMA is the certification issuing body for the CMA. The AICPA stands for the “American Institute of CPA’s”, while IMA stands for the “Institute of Management Accountants”. The AICPA has six major roles in which it contributes to the well-being of accountants (Melancon, 2002). The first role is to obtain a larger involvement from the user’s of financial
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performance of Malaysia Airlines and China Southern Airlines Summary The purpose of this report was discovering and analyzing the performance of Malaysia Airlines and China Southern Airlines; and the benefits and problems in the U.S. adopting of IFRS will be mentioned. First, it evaluates the performance of Malaysia Airlines and China Southern Airlines through five ratios analysis which is profitability, liquidity/solvency, working capital efficiency, long term financial structure and investors’
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Board (IASB) is the standard agreed upon by the European Union for the financial reporting of all publicly traded companies on the European stock exchange (Hill, 2011). The United States currently uses the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), but has aligned some of its principles to those of the IASB (Ernst and Young, 2010). This paper will look at the benefit of adopting the IASB from an investor and business standpoint. The paper will examine the potential risk associated with adopting
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Chapter 1 The Nature and Purpose of Accoun3ng McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2011. The McGraw-Hill Companies. All Rights Reserved. What Accoun0ng Does • Accoun3ng is a system that provides informa3on on: – Amounts of resources. – How resources were financed. – Results achieved by using resources. • For either: – Par3es inside or outside of organiza3on. – Profit and nonprofit organiza3ons. 1-2 Categories of Accoun0ng Informa0on • Opera3ng • Financial accoun3ng
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accounting change. T 8. Retrospective application impracticality. F 9. Reporting changes in accounting estimates. T 10. Change in principle vs. change in estimate. F 11. Accounting for change in depreciation method. F 12. Accounting for change in reporting entities. T 13. Example of a change in reporting entities. F 14. Accounting error vs. change in estimate. T 15. Accounting for corrections of errors. T 16. New principle created by FASB standard. T 17. Correcting entries for
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Assignment 1 –FAC501 | Challenges facing the accounting profession and how I see them affecting me in the future with regards to IFRS companies submitting IFRS on US stock exchanges? Macdonald Felix Rusoto Muchemedzi Student Kaplan University As the Stock exchange affords different investors the opportunity to actively trade in the non-US companies and also provide an avenue for non-US companies to raise capital will the investment and accounting community be able to fully understand
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The study focused on the adoption process of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on a developing economy, with particular reference to Nigeria. The paper is based on the data obtained from literature survey and archival sources in the context of the globalization of International Financial Reporting and the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).Nigeria has embraced IFRS in order to participate in the benefits it offers, including attracting foreign direct investment
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All CFA Institute members and candidates are required to comply with the Code and Standards Basic structure for enforcing the Code and Standards The CFA Institute Bylaws primary principles Based on two Fair process to member and candidate Confidentiality of proceedings Rules of Procedure Maintains oversight and responsibility The CFA Institute Board of Governors Through the Disciplinary Review Committee (DRC) Is responsible for the enforcement of the Code and Standards Conducts professional
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