used in accounting, to include Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), double entry accounting, historical cost, accrual basis vs. cash basis accounting and current assets and liabilities vs. non-current items. I will also describe the general organization of the following three companies; Apple, Inc., Swatch Group, and Nikon. In doing so, I will attempt to determine and demonstrate what is more useful – net income or cash from operating activities. Part I The field of accounting can be
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Berkshire Hathaway and GEICO Insurance © 2001 Tim Glowa White Paper: Examining Berkshire Hathaway’s 1995 Purchase of GEICO Insurance Tim Glowa Tim@Glowa.ca September 12, 2001 © 2001 Tim Glowa September 12, 2001 -1- Berkshire Hathaway and GEICO Insurance Table of contents © 2001 Tim Glowa Executive Summary.................................................................................................... 3 Introduction...................................................
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Information Technology on Public Accounting Firm Productivity Rajiv D. Banker Hsihui Chang The University of Texas at Dallas Yi-ching Kao University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee ABSTRACT: In recent years, information technology (IT) has played a critical role in the services provided by the public accounting industry. However, no empirical research has evaluated the impact of IT on public accounting firms. This study focuses on five offices of an international public accounting firm that recently made
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------------------------------------------------- Study on SAP Training Satisfaction of the Students ------------------------------------------------- A Research Paper Presented to The General Education and Accountancy Department In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Course in Research Submitted by: Ronel Katrina Kishia Marie Nyalyn Reymund Elmer Rennaly Ruby Angelica Mae Anne TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page 1 Acknowledgment 2
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economic theories, advantages and instances where it has been successful and the factors that impact the effectiveness of these incentives. The essay will contend that pay incentives are powerful motivators to induce effort however it needs to be designed carefully considering various contingency factors. There is a strong relationship between pay incentives and employee efforts, consequently greater efforts lead to higher performance. Evidence suggests that there are certain theories that detail
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still kept my enthusiasm for Finance and gradually developed a keen interest in the topic of Carbon Finance and Carbon Trading. As part of my research into Carbon Finance, I was very interested to discover that it is partly based on ideas about accounting for social costs developed by Ronald Coase more than fifty years ago. In Chinese financial institutions there is a shortage of professional consultants who can analyze and evaluate local companies in the potential area of carbon trading. I hope
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nothing could stop the growth and uprising price of shares. The downfall of Nortel began when the top executives were accused of falsifying reported earnings. Top-notch executives were buying and selling stock within their retirement plans and massive accounting discrepancies were discovered. These suspicious outcomes let the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch an investigation in April 2004. The company continued to plunge and deteriorate. In January 2009, Nortel filed Chapter
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------------------------------------------------- Corporate governance literature review Prepared by: Zainab Ashfaq (4525819) Unit Code: BGP8022 CEO DUALITY-THE COMBINATION OF CHAIRMAN AND CEO ROLES A literature review of different theories and empirical research about CEO Duality. INTRODUCTION Recent financial scandals like Enron, Mobily and WorldCom arise a demand for a better monitoring and controlling structure within the organizations. Conflict of interest between the shareholders
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Department of Business Administration BUSN69, Degree Project – Accounting and Auditing Master Thesis, 15 ECTS Spring 2014 The evolution of CSR Reporting in the Banking Sector of Greece An analysis of specific characteristics of CSR Reporting Author Papakostopoulos, Georgios Supervisors Jonnergård, Karin Loft, Anne 2014-10-20 1 2 Abstract Title The evolution of CSR Reporting in the Banking Sector of Greece An analysis of specific characteristics of CSR Reporting
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Behavioural Finance Topic 10 What it is: * Relatively new and controversial area in the study of finance. * Orthodox finance theory is based on a representative agent that is a rational utility ‘maximiser’ who makes unbiased forecasts about the future. * BF expands the attributes allowed for this representative, replacing the ‘rational’ agent with a ‘normal’ person who is susceptible to a range of cognitive illusions. How and why it began: * The idea that psychological factors
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