month of operations of her business‚ Jane Kent Inc‚ the following events and transactions occurred. May 1 Stockholders invested $25‚000 cash in exchange for comon stock. 2 Hired a secretary-receptionist at a salary of $2‚000 per month. 3 Purchased $2‚500 of supplies on acount from Read Supply Company. 7 Paid office rent of $900 cash for the month. 11 Completed a tax assignment and billed client $2‚100 for services provided. 12 Received $3‚500 advance on a management
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Topic 1 Accounting and Society Prepared by Graeme Wines. One issue in Topic 1 that can be a little confusing is the distinction between inductive and deductive theories. The example of the topical area of climate change can be used to provide explanations of the distinction which may help your understanding. Inductive theory A descriptive (explanatory/scientific) theory‚ as these terms imply‚ suggest that the theory is attempting to describe or explain a particular phenomenon‚ and that
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St Joseph Campus Capitol Hill‚ Monrovia Liberia Accounting 401 Section 01 Accounting Theory Assignment #2 To: Mr. Oye Williams By: Fatima E. Manyeh 07436 March 6‚ 2014 1) BDO Seidman’s attorney pointed out correctly that professional standards do not prohibit auditors and client personnel from being ‘friends’. At what point does such relationship result in violation of the auditor independence rules and guidelines? Provide hypothetical examples to strengthen your answers. Health
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investments or capital of the firm and not only in relation to sales. Return on capital employed ratio measures the efficiency with which the investment made by shareholders and creditors is used in the business. Managers use this ratio for various financial decisions. It is a ratio of overall profitability and a higher ratio is‚ therefor‚ better. To see whether the business has improved its profitability or not‚ the ratio can be calculated for a number of years. Return on equity (ROE) is widely
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Accounting Theory Construction The function to study accounting theories is to classify them according to the assumptions they rely on‚ how they were formulated‚ and their approaches to explaining and predicting actual events. There are some classification which are pragmatic‚ syntactic‚ semantic‚ normative‚ positive‚ and naturalistic approaches. Pragmatic approaches are based on observing the behavior of accountants or those who use the information generated by accountant. Syntactic approaches
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School of Business Financial Accounting 30000 Financial Statement Analysis Case Exxon vs. Shell: Understanding the effect of inventory valuation on Financial Statements Designed by: Valeri Nikolaev Objective: Understanding the effect of inventory valuation assumptions on financial statements. Assignment summary: You are taking the role of a security analyst who recently started following the Oil and Gas industry. The analyst has a task to draw a comparison of several financial indicators for two
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achieving future cash flows. Limitations * Companies omit items that cannot be measured reliably. * Income is affected by the accounting methods employed. * Income measurement involves judgment. Earnings Quality Companies have incentives to manage income to
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transaction‚ or potential transaction‚ can observe their actions in fulfillment of the transaction but other parties cannot. An information system is a table giving‚ conditional on each state of nature‚ the objective probability of each possible financial statement evidence item. Information is evidence that has the potential to affect an individual’s decision. An efficient securities market is one where the prices of securities trades on that market at all time fully reflect all information that
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of Research Paper Through the paper and the information provided by the textbook‚ it is clear that two brief conclusions we can get and explanations will be attached. 1. The financial statement do impact the share price 2. The influence caused by the financial statement is limited. The main reason‚ that financial statement impact the share price‚ is the efficient capital market. Namely‚ the efficient security market will go hand in hand with full disclosure. Once the relevant information provided
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Perspectives on Accounting Education Volume 6‚ 2009‚ 83-96 A FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS PROJECT FOR INTRODUCTORY FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING Marilyn B. Misch Business Administration Division Pepperdine University Malibu‚ California USA Carolyn A. Galantine Business Administration Division Pepperdine University Malibu‚ California USA ABSTRACT This paper describes a financial statement analysis project useful in both preparerbased and user-based introductory courses in financial accounting. The project
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