Tag: Accounting

Future Developments in Management Accounting
10th Dec 2020
Introduction: This report on future developments in management accounting will discuss the main drivers of change in management accounting, how drivers of change has impacted management accounting, and what skills are needed to adapt....

Impacts of Logitech's Unethical Accounting Practices
26th Oct 2020
Introduction: Logitech is a manufacturer of peripherals and video conferencing products related with computing, communication and entertainment. Logitech was founded in Switzerland in 1981, and Logitech International S.A. has...

Analysis of Robbins Network Services (RNS) Business Environment
26th Oct 2020
Introduction: In order to determine what internal controls are needed for a business there are several items that need to be reviewed. These items include standard business transactions, business risks, and ethical dilemmas...

Qualifications and Experiences That Employers Seek from Corporate Accountants
26th Oct 2020
Introduction: The primary aim of this assignment is to analyze and discuss what qualifications and experiences any organization or company seeks from a corporate accountant. Here we will collect a few job advertisements, and based on that, we will try...

Management Accounting for Debt and Earning Management
26th Oct 2020
Introduction: Management accounting is the process of functions like identification, measurement, analysing, collection of information and communication, interpreting for fulfil the organisation goals. This is a bit different from financial...

Corporation Tax Controversy of Global Organisations – a British Petroleum Case Study
21st Oct 2020
Introduction: In our modern world, taxes are the basic source of task financing and public needs and they are a very important part of the country’s development and citizens. Tax is a historical phenomenon that appeared at a certain stage in the...

Corporate Failure of Dick Smith Holdings
20th Oct 2020
Introduction: The main objective of the report is to understand the reasons behind the corporate collapse of Dick Smith and the outcomes of the failure of company that can be learned. The report gives brief details of the operations and the businesses...

History of Accounting Practices
12th Oct 2020
Introduction: This essay tries to say “accounting is considered as one of the world’s oldest professions.” This may reveal the origin of accounting and how the accounting practices have changed over the time. Accounting has the long...

Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS
24th Sep 2020
Introduction: This case discusses an investment property company based in France, Silic, faced with the option of preparing its investment properties either using the fair value model or historical cost model, upon adopting the International financial...

Coca-Cola Company, Dr. Pepper and PepsiCo Financial Analysis
24th Sep 2020
Introduction: The National Beverage Corp. is an American beverage company located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  This corporation is ranked by Beverage Digest (Beverage-Digest Fact book 23rd Edition, 2018) as the fifth-largest soft drink company...

Association between Earning Management and Audit Quality: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Companies
24th Sep 2020
Introduction: In recent years, it is common that many listed companies utilize earnings management to manipulate the financial statement for the purpose of maximizing private gain. However, excessive earnings management can mislead the public due to materially...

Comparison of GAAP and IFRS Standards
23rd Sep 2020
Introduction: The creation of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in 1973 has laid an internationally recognized foundation upon which the conceptual framework of the United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP) guides organizations on...

Similarities and Differences of Financial and Managerial Accounting
23rd Sep 2020
Introduction: Financial and Managerial accounting are “two out of the four largest accounting areas” (Ross,2017).  Financial accounting is the process a company goes through in order to prepare their financial statements to report their financial position to the people with...

Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Accounting
16th Sep 2020
Introduction: Recent technological leaps in the world of artificial intelligence (AI) have led to considerable unease in the accounting discipline. Many believe that AI could one day replace the duties and expertis...

Advantanges of using social and environmental accounting.
22nd Jun 2020
Introduction: Question Advantages for an organization which undertakes social and environmental accounting. Answer Social and Environmental accounting are ways of measuring a firm’s performance which extend the t...

Explain the ways and causes for how accounting has evolved.
17th Jun 2020
Introduction: Question Accounting has been evolving and is still evolving. Explain factors that explain the changes and differences in the way accounting is done. Answer Accounting is an old practice that has devel...

What is Budgeting?
17th Jun 2020
Introduction: Question What is budgeting? Answer Budgeting is the process of planning and allocating resources within an organisational or personal setting. Budgeting is commonly associated with financial planning...

Accounting Standards at JB Hi-Fi
16th Jun 2020
Introduction: Executive summary In the increasingly complicated world of accounting, the need for a reliable set of accounting policies and professional judgement becomes ever more prevalent. The AASB 108 and AASB ...

International versus U.S. Standards
16th Jun 2020
Introduction: Abstract This paper will describe the differences in the way property, plant, and equipment are reported under U.S GAAP and IFRS. U.S. GAAP requires property, plant, and equipment to be reported at hi...

What is the impact of choosing different measurement approaches on the quality of accounting information produced?
12th Jun 2020
Introduction: Question What is the impact of choosing different measurement approaches on the quality of accounting information produced? Answer The way items are measured in accounting affects the quality of accou...

What are the implications of governance for collective investment schemes?
12th Jun 2020
Introduction: Question What are the implications of governance for collective investment schemes? Answer The core principles identified in the governance for collective investment schemes (CIS) aim at providing eff...

Purposes and Processes of Managerial Accounting
12th Jun 2020
Introduction: Business owners and management are faced with making decisions every day regarding operations performance, profit, and labor force amongst many others. Managerial accounting helps with making those de...

What are the Origins of Accounting
12th Jun 2020
Introduction: Accounting is the basic process of record keeping, analysis, and reporting of business information. It is a practice that appeared in early civilizations and its developments have been tied to evoluti...

Factors Affecting Transfer Pricing
11th Jun 2020
Introduction: Introduction: Tax is revenue for the government to meet the social costs like funding public infrastructure, alleviating poverty, providing healthcare etc whereas on the other side Tax is a cost for f...

Waste Management, Inc's Accounting Scandal
11th Jun 2020
Introduction: Waste Management, Inc. is a North American corporation providing waste management, integrated waste management, and environmental services. The company was founded in 1968 by Larry Beck and is headqua...