Positive Accounting Theory

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    Analysis of Biological Assets Valuation Method with Fair Value Accounting and Historical Cost Accounting in Plantation Subsector of Indonesian Agricultural Industry in the Period of 2007-2012

    ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL ASSETS VALUATION WITH FAIR VALUE ACCOUNTING AND HISTORICAL COST ACCOUNTING METHOD IN PLANTATION SUBSECTOR OF INDONESIAN AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY IN THE PERIOD OF 2007-2012 Karina Putri Ramadhani1 and Indra Pratama2 1 Thesis Writer, Swiss German University 2 Thesis Advisor, Swiss German University Abstract The analysis of biological assets valuation with fair value accounting and historical cost accounting method in plantation subsector of Indonesian agricultural industry,

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    Should Audit Committee Be Established in a Private Company?

    the objective of this study is to determine whether the new theory of this formation of audit committee in a private company, can really help to eliminate or at least minimize the fraud. To achieve this goal, the study will conduct a survey based on questionnaires that will be distributed to the top management of a private companies, charted accountant i.e auditors and lecturers of audit course. The findings will be used to support the theory of this research. In the article, Albrecht (2008) declared

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    Accounting Theory

    These questions are from the Text Book – Scott, W.R., Financial Accounting Theory – 5th Edition, Person Prentice-Hall, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-13-207286-1. Question 1: From Chapter 4 (Efficient Securities Markets) Question 13. Zhang (2005) examined revenue recognition practices in the software industry. Software firms derive revenue from software licensing and post-contract customer support. In both cases, the point in time when significant risks and rewards of ownership are transferred to the buyer

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    Organizational Theory, Design, and Change Jones 6th Edition Test Bank Click here to download the solutions manual / test bank INSTANTLY!!! http://solutionsmanualtestbanks.blogspot.com/2011/10/organizational-theory-d esign-and-change_18.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------Organizational Organizational Organizational Organizational Theory, Theory, Theory, Theory, Design, Design, Design, Design, and and and and Change Change Change Change Jones Jones Jones

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    Financial Reporting Quality and Corporate Governance: the Portuguese Companies Evidence

    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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    Business & Economy Related Topics

    corporate size, status of the audit firm, industry type, degree of corporate complexity and risk are the main determinants of audit fees in the Jordanian environment. Unlike previous studies, however, variables such as corporate profitability, corporate accounting year-end and time lag between year-end and the audit report date appeared to be insignificant determinants of audit fees in the sampled companies. Key Words: * Audit fees, Emerging Economy, Jordan. S S cientific Journal of Administrative

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    The Impact of Enterprise Systems on Corporate Performance: a Study of Erp, Scm, and Crm System Implementations

    results for improvements in profitability are stronger in the case of early adopters of ERP systems. On average, adopters of SCM system experience positive stock returns as well as improvements in profitability. There is no evidence of improvements in stock returns or profitability for firms that have invested in CRM. Although our results are not uniformly positive across the different enterprise systems (ES), they are encouraging in the sense that despite the high implementation costs, we do not find persistent

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    Managerial Finance

    [pic] 1.0 INTRODCTION Square is one of the leading organizations in Bangladesh. It has a tremendous performing history in the different sector of the Bangladeshi business sector. Square pharmaceutical is the leader of the visionary revaluation in the drug sector of Bangladesh. Not only pharmaceuticals sector but also another different sector square provides their contentious and quality full service by providing a standard class products and services. We are going to describe the overall preview

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    Accounting

    Accounting, Organizations and Society 38 (2013) 596–620 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Accounting, Organizations and Society journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/aos An accountability framework for financial statement auditors and related research questions Mark E. Peecher a,⇑, Ira Solomon b,1, Ken T. Trotman c,2 a Department of Accountancy, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1206 South Sixth Street, Champaign, IL 61820, United States

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    Getting to the Bottom of “Triple Bottom Line”*

    In Press, Business Ethics Quarterly Getting to the Bottom of “Triple Bottom Line”* by Wayne Norman and Chris MacDonald March 2003 Abstract: In this paper, we examine critically the notion of “Triple Bottom Line” accounting. We begin by asking just what it is that supporters of the Triple Bottom line idea advocate, and attempt to distil specific, assessable claims from the vague, diverse, and sometimes contradictory uses of the Triple Bottom Line rhetoric. We then use these claims as a basis

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