that earn its revenue providing corporate social network development and hosting services. The audit committee of the company has requested the company to hire a new audit firm with a better experience in auditing of public technology companies. 2. Auditing and reporting issues: Miss Kristine Drew is the senior auditor for this company and is responsible for auditing revenue. She should start by asking for reviews from the predecessor audit firm in order to identify any problems they faced and
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Chapter 1 A Survey of International Accounting A brief description of the major points covered in each case and problem. CASES Case 1 In this case, students are introduced to the difference in accounting for R&D costs between IFRS and U.S. GAAP and asked to comment on whether one method is better than the other, as well as whether any part of R&D should be capitalized. Case 2 (prepared by Peter Secord, Saint Mary’s University) In this real life case, students are asked to discuss
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customer a sales incentive or other consideration addresses the circumstances under which that consideration is either: • a. An adjustment of the selling prices of the vendor’s products or services and therefore characterized as a reduction of revenue when recognized in the vendor’s income statement • b. A cost incurred by the vendor for assets or services received from the customer and therefore characterized as a cost or expense when recognized in the vendor’s income statement” FASB Accounting
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financial accounting. Prerequisite: AP/ADMS 2500 3.00. Prior to Fall 2009 Prerequisite: AK/ADMS 2500 3.0. Course credit exclusion: AK/ADMS 3585 3.00. Learning Outcomes After completion of the course, apart from mastering the technical knowledge of the revenue and asset side of the financial statements, students should also 1. Understand the importance of ethics in the accounting profession and realize potential conflicts of interest that one may encounter in the profession. 2. Begin to learn how to see
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Homecare, a not-for-profit business, had revenues of $12 million in 2007. Expenses other than depreciation totaled 75 percent of revenues, which is $9 million, and depreciation expense was $1.5 million. Income statement is the one of the three financial statements. The other two are the balance sheet and the statement of the cash flows. Brandywine Homecare’s total profit margin of 12.5 percent shows that the homecare makes 12.5 cents on every dollar of total revenues. If the company doubled its depreciation
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less interpretation and more consistent action taken by all businesses, leading to comparability through financial statements. The convergence of these two accounting frameworks is a must for both foreign and domestic businesses. There are some problems between the two systems coexisting. This has led to companies that need to have two sets of accounting presentation. Now there will be one universal system allowing for clarity and comparability globally. This convergence is not without obstacles
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INTERMEDIATE (FINANCIAL) ACCOUNTING I SUBCLASS KLM CASE ANALYSIS QUESTIONS CASE 1 – REVENUE RECOGNITION AND EARNINGS MANAGEMENT INTERMEDIATE (FINANCIAL) ACCOUNTING I SUBCLASS KLM CASE ANALYSIS QUESTIONS CASE 2 – REVENUE RECOGNITION FOR A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT HKU Technology Inc. (Hereafter, HKU Tech) is a large construction contracting firm that serves a variety of industrial customers that purchase machinery and equipment from HKU Tech. HKU Tech’s business primarily involves the design and manufacture
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1. Financial accounting deals almost strictly with financial statement preparation. It focuses on pronouncements issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the SEC, and on accounting concepts such as materiality, matching revenues and expenses, relevance, and consistency. It also considers highly technical details about consolidated financial statements, leases, pensions, income taxes, and inventory valuation methods that are often found on the CPA exam. 2. Financial
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Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements, Text Only, Southwestern (United States), fourth edition, 2004 (Palepu). Background: Accounting is called the language of business for at least two reasons. First, accounting terms such as sales, revenues, profit, net income, costs, gross margin, expense, and capitalize are widely used in business. Any businessperson is expected to understand those terms. Second, managers rely on accounting to understand an organization’s economic condition at a
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economists, investors, regulators, and publics because they usually use financial statement to measure company’s performance. There are two possibilities that could be done with revenues. First, increasing the revenues by recording the revenue earlier so it could increase. Second, decreasing the revenues by recording the revenue later so the numbers in financial report could decrease. Costs and expenses could be increased and decreased by relying on discretionary costs (Roychowdury, 2006). In order
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