Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act Introduction Before 2002, many U.S. companies, such as Enron, WorldCom and Xerox went bankrupt and caused the serious global issues and financial responsibilities of managers in the world. The primary issue was about an ethical leadership and maintained the clean audit system. Well known examples perhaps were Enron and WorldCom scandals. Dyck and Neubert (2010) mentioned that “Ironically, the lucrative rewards for performance and innovation were keys to Enron’s
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other words, it establishes relationship between two items expressed in quantitative form. According J. Batty, Ratio can be defined as "the term accounting ratio is used to describe significant relationships which exist between figures shown in a balance sheet and profit and loss account in a budgetary control system or any other part of the accounting management." Ratio can be used in the form of (1) percentage (20%) (2) Quotient (say 10) and (3) Rates. In other words, it can be expressed as a to
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Business Use of Tablets In a society that is dominated by smart phones, laptops, computers and other various forms of technology, perhaps the most recent and developed device that has taken the world by storm is the tablet. Many people feel that a cell phone is limited in its abilities, and who wants to purchase a laptop that is two to three times the size and price of a tablet? A tablet is functional, reasonably priced, and a perfect device for an extremely wide spread demographic group. The
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Activity Based Costing (ABC) is an accounting method that allows an organization to determine actual costs associated with each product and/or service produced by the organization without regard to the organizational structure or other extraneous function. For Dakota Office Products (DOP), its existing costing system was inadequate because it is incapable of accounting for even all of the known costs such as the desktop delivery service as well as hidden costs such as the 10% DOP paid to maintain
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have successfully adopted and implemented ABC, and presents his findings from the study. He then addresses the limitations of ABC in the service sectors and offers strategies for dealing with these drawbacks. Finally, the researcher outlines the managerial implications of implementing ABC in the service sector. Keywords: Activity-based costing, Service sector, Managerial decision making, Cost measurement 1. Introduction The concept of activity-based costing (ABC) was introduced in the US, initially
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the quality of the accounting information. Our study shows that although the main international guidelines relating to the rules of good governance have been followed closely by Portuguese institutions, the actual implementation of these rules did not occur. 2 1. INTRODUCTION The aim of this paper is to contribute to the study of the influence of the type of corporate governance on the financial reporting quality in countries with a tradition of continental accounting. Despite the profuse
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effective control environment • Identify the components of internal control in both manual and IT environments • Identify types of control activity • Distinguish between general controls and application controls • Identify inherent limitations of a system of internal controls • Specify the composition of an audit committee Internal Control [pic] Internal control: ‘The process designed, implemented and maintained by those charged with governance*, management, and other personnel
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Lecturer Department Of Accounting And Information Systems University Of Dhaka. Submitted By: Group No. 02 ID 18003 18051 18053 18073 18089 18200 NAME Safiqur Rahman Mahadin Anik Mahmudul Islam Arnab Kumar Chakrabartty Abdullah Al Noman Namrata Chakma Date of Submission: November 11, 2014. 1|Page This Report Includes The Following Contents Chapter No. Contents Page No. 01.Introduction 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Introduction. Scope of the report. Objective of the report. Limitations of the report. What
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Introduction This study analyzes Balanced Scorecard (BSC) knowledge among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Portuguese industry. It basically resolves three problems: Do Portuguese industrial SMEs use the BSC? Are those in charge of management accounting aware of the Balanced Scorecard? Is there any relation between spreading knowledge about the Balanced Scorecard and specific contingency variables? Traditionally managers evaluate performance with exclusively financial measures. The first performance
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The Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on Corporate America In discussing the impact of one of the most important laws passed in Congress to legislate the accounting and reporting rules of corporations, I need to give a brief definition and some background information for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. In 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed into law by the United States Congress. After a series of high profile corporate scandals, such as Enron and WorldCom, the Congress of the United States passed
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