Accounting scandals

Although the assistant did a wonderful job, she is pretty obviously using her duties as both cash handler and the person making accounting entries to embezzle money, because she can deal with vendors and customer and the associated accounts payable and accounts receivable, while entering all data into the accounting system, writing checks, and reconciling the company bank accounts and line of credit balances. Another example is that the repair technicians are free to order…

Food manufacturing facilities are high profit businesses all over the country. Each region of the country has a specialty; the north has cheese and dairy, the south has fruits, and the center region has meats. Living in the Midwest, the most common food facilities produce, meats, soy and pizza toppings, the best examples are Tyson and Hormel Foods. That is what my business does we manufacture the best kind of food; brownies. Brownies sell all over the country in grocery stores and markets as…

The company tried to maintain premium prices for most of the eight years. Customers expect prices to fall within a reasonable range. With that being said, the market price for Able and Abby for the first four years was $35.00 and $45.00. Before discontinuation, in year five, Ace was priced at $35.00 while the price for Able and Abby was lowered to $34.00 and $43.00 to create more sales (Capsim.com, n.d). However, at this point the company did not want to drop the prices lower because we were…

We make many decisions in our lives from small, daily decisions to major life decisions. The majority impact us economically. Fiscally responsible people often take the cost-benefit principal into account when making economic decisions. The principle first assumes people are rational and so, their goals are rational. It then states, one should only take action when the benefits of that action are as least as high as the costs associated with the action. I wondered what the outcome would be…

Problem Formulation [1] Figure 2 shows the utility-connected HPGS, which consists of WT, PV, SB, GT, and utility grid. The main objective functions of this system are the total annual cost (TAC) and the system pollution (SP). Equation 3 shows the multi-objective function should be minimized. f=min⁡(TAC,SP) (3) Equation 4 shows the first objective function, which it…

Transfer price has been defined as an amount charged on a product or service when supplying division transfers the good or service to receiving division. In this situation, Electrical Division is the supplying division, while Brake Division is the receiving division. During the process of setting transfer price, W Industries should ensure the goal congruence between Electrical Division and Brake Division. In other words, both divisions should not strive to maximize their own divisions’ profits…

(2) Human resource activities that MNCs must face on international assignment According to paragraph (1), there are so many differences between international human resource management and domestic human resource management. Comparing HR activities between IHRM and DHRM, there is very less in similarities and so many differences. Among these differences, we will discussing two HR activities (1) staffing and (2) compensation and benefits for highlighting HR activities only need for IHRM and not…

Three main manufacturing processes exist; formative, subtractive and additive processes. These manufacturing processes can be divided by the type of action or actions required to produce the final part. Formative processes form the material into the desired shape, either by using dies or moulds. Examples of formative processes are stamping, forging, drawing, rolling or extruding. Subtractive processes on the other hand remove layers of material to form the final part. Turning, milling, grinding,…

According to Williamson, “A transaction occurs when a good or service is transferred across a technologically separable interface. One stage of activity terminates and another begins.” Transaction costs appear whenever there is “friction” at the point of interface. In other words, Transaction Cost Economics focuses on the organization of transactions that occur whenever a good or service is transferred from a provider to a user across a technologically separable interface. When transactions…

This report was commissioned to examine a decision regarding the number of shirts to produce for the rock concert, scheduled to be staged in two months and calculate the financial outcomes while maximizing the profit. The research draws attention to two uncertain events, Mr. George Lassiter faced. Firstly Mr. Lassiter has no idea in the number of people attending the concert and secondly about the percentage of attendees who would buy his shirts. George Lassiter is a project engineer for a…