University International ACC501 Case Assignment #1 Core Faculty: Dr. Timothy Brown Introduction The purpose of the following paper is to address common terms 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
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Types of Accounting 1. Financial Accounting • Provides information primarily to people outside the company ◦ Provides information that would be helpful in attracting capital Equity and debt (useful in debt contracts) Credit from suppliers Customers Employees ◦ Provides information helpful in monitoring and evaluating management performance 4 Types of Accounting 2. Managerial Accounting ◦ Provides information to people inside the company Internal investment decisions
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Financial Reporting Standards for several reasons, a main one being the complexity of switching a multi-trillion dollar company’s accounting standards. Specifically, the difference in reporting of derivative assets from Generally Accepted Accounting Principles to International Financial Reporting Standards is one of the main challenges. SNL Financial, a data collection company, ranks the world’s banks based on their assets, which are reported by each firm according to their current method of accounting
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Introduction Information is a valuable corporate asset and important to our business. With regard to the situation that Brawner offers me a large sum of money for the email addresses and phone numbers of all my customers, what should I do? This essay aims to provide my response and dig out the root reasons of my business decision-making from two aspects of information ethics and information security. Information Ethics With the rapid development of information technology nowadays, people pay
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Running head: SECURITY TIPS Security Tips Sunday, January 30, 2010 Security Tips Employees must share the responsibilities with their employer when it comes to keeping their computers and data safe. Employers can predict lots of issues and put barriers in place, but with new viruses and new hackers being produced every day there is no way that the security on your employer’s servers and firewalls can catch everything. There are several things that employees can look out for everyday
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Global Information Distribution Network, Broad band Telecommunication. UNIT-II Mobile Commerce Introduction to Mobile Commerce, Mobile Computing Application, Wireless Application Protocols, WAP Technology, Mobile Information Devices, Web Security Introduction to Web security, Firewalls & Transaction Security, Client Server Network, Emerging Client Server Security Threats, firewalls & Network Security. UNIT-III Encryption World Wide Web & Security, Encryption, Transaction security, Secret Key
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consent. The words will print no matter how it makes the people involved feel. This exercise is called Freedom of Press to publish information for pleasurable reading. It is strange that we get excited over someone misery. We also enjoyment the scandals of our leaders in government as long as it is not classified information. While personal and classified information should never be purchased or punished, it is not totally free. Freedom of the Press is the freedom of communication and expression
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main sources of the Corporate Governance reforms agenda in Malaysia other than Malaysian Code on Corporate governance are the Capital Market Master Plan (CMP) and also Financial Sector Master Plan (FSMP). This sources provides guidelines on the principles and best practices in corporate governance and the direction for the implementation as well as charts for the future prospects of corporate governance in Malaysia. Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance is an initiative that established by the
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employees, the shareholder, and the company. The interests of the stakeholders are avoiding scandals, following legislation by knowing the security laws, understanding public interests, and displaying accountability. Every stakeholder has the rights and responsibility to promote honesty and integrity from management. This case applies to the Securities Acts and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Joe and Mary participated in illegal and unethical actions. Both knew there was a performance problem but
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advantages for the analyst to produce valuable strategic intelligence. Collaborative intelligence not only creates accurate and timely information, collaborative intelligence can also reduce wasteful endeavors. For example, a Congressional directed staff committee recently found the IC must increase collaboration among its intelligence systems. On the other hand, information based on a single source is deficient, and does not produce qualitative assessments. According to Anissa Frini, “Stovepiping keeps
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