Seligram and Managerial Accounting Wrap-Up 15.501/516 Accounting Spring 2004 Professor S. Roychowdhury Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology May 10, 2004 11 Seligram ETO ¾ ETO: A support department / cost center ¾ Who are ETO’s customers? – the departments producing ICA, ICB, Capacitor, Amplifiers and Diodes ¾ Customers have to bear the cost of maintaining and operating ETO. ¾ Any signs of problems? 12 Main Questions
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Accounting 1370 Accounting Ethics Session 6 Governance, Accounting, and Auditing, Post-Enron Group 1: Student Name__Seven Autrey_____________________________________ Student Name__Duc Nguyen_____________________________________ Telling the Enron Story Name five ethical problems and the existing conditions that caused the Enron fiasco. Explain each. 1. Fiduciary Failure – the board of directors failed to safeguard the companies from many inappropriate practices. 2. High Risk
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Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 17, Number 2—Spring 2003—Pages 3–26 The Fall of Enron Paul M. Healy and Krishna G. Palepu F rom the start of the 1990s until year-end 1998, Enron’s stock rose by 311 percent, only modestly higher than the rate of growth in the Standard & Poor’s 500. But then the stock soared. It increased by 56 percent in 1999 and a further 87 percent in 2000, compared to a 20 percent increase and a 10 percent decline for the index during the same years. By December
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statements and to Identify and describe the two balance sheet liability classifications. explore how this information is used by Explain the purpose of financial statement decision makers. disclosures. LO6 Explain the purpose of the management discussion and analysis disclosure. LO7 Explain the purpose of an audit and describe the content of the audit report. LO8 Identify and calculate the common liquidity and financing ratios used to assess risk. FINANCIAL REPORTING
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For my interview, I choose to interview the owner/entrepreneur of Affordable ATV’s, LLC. I asked her a variety of questions from different categories such as: Business overview, Business strategy, Human resources, Marketing, Technology, and Accounting. Affordable ATV’s was started in 2005. It was started in a good economy and the owner, Eric Bascom, started the business because he lost his union job that required him to travel all over the country for work. His brother-in-law sold 4-wheelers
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practice problems, reference materials, practice exams, textbook help and tutor support. 18: CHAPTER SPOILAGE, REWORKED UNITS, AND SCRAP TRUE/FALSE 1. Reducing defects helps to reduce costs, but does not make the business more competitive. Answer: False Difficulty: 2 Reducing defects does make the business more competitive. 2. Objective: 1 Reworked goods are unacceptable units of production usually not capable of being repaired or converted into a salable product. Answer: False Difficulty: 2 Objective:
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FAILURE Examining a Business Failure Paper Enron Rachel Y. Pointer University of Phoenix LDR/531 Ernest Price, Instructor January 17, 2010 Enron Business Failure One of the world’s most catastrophic business failures was Enron. Unveiled in October 2001, this scandal involves the renowned energy company Enron in conjunction with the accounting, auditing and consultancy schemes of Arthur Andersen. Enron disgraces ultimately lead the organization to a scandal that resulted in the
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improve current supply chain problems amongst major customers. To start the process companies designated a team of qualified individuals to study each retail customer. The information gather is used to produce more efficient designs with an improved flow of information service levels are up to 90% in some areas, Bannon (2001). Many companies are realizing the effect Supply Chain Management is having with bottom line consumers. This paper will examine how management accounting is becoming a large part
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Course Study Guide 2011–12 International Business Management BUSI 1493 [pic] Contents 1. Welcome 3 2. Introduction to the Course 4 2.1 Aims 4 2.2 Learning Outcomes 4 2.2.1 Knowledge and understanding of: 4 2.2.2 Intellectual Skills: 4 2.2.3 Subject practical skills: 5 2.2.4 Transferable skills: 5 2.3 Learning and teaching activities 5 3. Contact Details 5 4. Course Content 6 4.1 Session Reading 20 5. Assessment Details 21
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Ruby Blanco AC503 Kaplan University Unit 3: Homework Assignment 5-29 1. Valuation or Allocation 2. Rights and Obligations 3. Completeness 4. Presentation and Disclosures 5. Rights and Obligations 6. Valuation or Allocation 7. Completeness 8. Rights and Obligations 9. Valuation or Allocation 10. Valuation or Allocation 11. Rights and Obligations 6-21 A. Inquiry oral evidence is the weakest form of evidence and if given by the client should
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