Managerial Accounting Chapter # 01 Homework 1 01) How does managerial accounting differ from financial accounting? A: Managerial accounting is concerned with providing information to managers for use inside the organization. Financial accounting is con¬cerned with providing information to stockhold¬ers‚ creditors‚ and others outside of the organi¬zation. 02) Pick any major television network and describe some planning and control activities that its managers would engage in. A: Five examples
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Will there be one set of accounting standards in use throughout the world in the next five years? Accounting around the world has become a huge focus in recent years due to the diversity of methods used in accounting and the difficulty of comparing US based firms and international firms. In the United States the guidelines that govern accounting are US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles or GAAP. Recently the Securities Exchange Commission or SEC has begun the process of switching to the International
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American Accounting Association DOI: 10.2308/acch.2010.24.2.279 Accounting Horizons Vol. 24‚ No. 2 2010 pp. 279–296 COMMENTARY The American Accounting Association’s Financial Reporting Policy Committee’s Response to the Preliminary Views on Financial Statement Presentation The Financial Reporting Policy Committee of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association Mark Bradshaw‚ Carolyn Callahan‚ Jack Ciesielski‚ Elizabeth Gordon‚ Mark Kohlbeck
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Bibliography: Rossouw‚ D (Dr). 2013. Subject Didactics Accounting. UNISA. 3.
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UM TAGUM CAMPUS Tagum City Department of Accounting Education Accounting Technology Program W A I V E R TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This is to certify that I‚ Crystal Faye M. Sumatra‚ a student of UM Tagum College‚ Tagum City‚ and a resident of Phase 2 Zone 5‚ Union Village‚ Mankilam‚ Tagum City‚ voluntarily agree to undergo an On-the-Job-Training at VF Agunod Auditing Firm for 180 hours in order to add the actual work experience needed in enhancing my skills for my course. Furthermore
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standard-setting processes. The introduction of IFRS in Australia replaced the original accounting standards and brought several brand new standards. Until now‚ Australia was the first country with a tradition of its own standard-setting to implement international accounting standards for general purposes. Therefore‚ the adoption is unexpected and controversial. This essay mainly focuses on the negative side of this accounting standard conversion‚ which points out a number of potentially serious problems
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| |7. |Of the two methods of accounting for uncollectible receivables‚ the allowance method provides in advance for uncollectible | | | |receivables. |True False | |8. |Generally accepted accounting principles do not normally allow the use of the direct write-off method of accounting for |
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Subject: Basic Accounting Batch: 2010-12 Foundation Program Faculty: S. Vijayakumar Bharathi Session Date | Session Details | Plan | Session Method | Session 1-3 | Pre-session preparation | Read from the book Accounting for Management | Syllabus discussion‚ PPTs / Videos on relevant topics | | Session | Introduce Accounting to the students | | | | PPT on basic concepts of Accounting. | | | | GAAP (concepts and conventions in accounting) | | | Post-session assignment
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1 ACCOUNTING 1 (ACN101- M) STUDY UNIT 1: THE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF ACCOUNTING DEFINITION: • • • Accounting can be defined as the orderly & systematic recording of the monetary values of financial transactions of a business The reporting of results Providing financial information as a basis for decision making 3 main processes define the accounting process: 1. IDENTIFYING: Selecting evidence of economic / financial activity (transactions) 2. RECORDING transactions to provide a permanent
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Accounting Concepts Underlying Assumptions‚ Principles‚ and Conventions Assumptions The following are basic financial accounting assumptions: Separate entity assumption - the business is an entity that is separate and distinct from its owners‚ so that the finances of the firm are not co-mingled with the finances of the owners. • Going concern assumption - the business is going to be operating for the foreseeable future. Stable monetary unit assumption - e.g. the U.S. dollar • Fixed
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