Accounting scandals

Various accounting bodies establish their own ethics board that is in charge of creation and implementation of ethical standards. In America, these guidelines are established by the ethics committee of the American Institute of Certified Public at domestic level, with contribution of state level establishments. Execution of these ethical guidelines is performed by these bodies and by other legal bodies including SEC. Many accountants and firms have been punished by these bodies for their…

“Ethics in Accounting” Company’s today depend on their accounting department. It is very important that the company have Ethics in place from the President down to the janitor. It is a known fact that when you have a company that does not implement Ethics within the company and in every department, you will have issues that can lead to legal battles. I find that companies rely too much on their accounting department heads without really being a part of what they are doing. You hear on the news…

The fair value and historical cost are fundamental approaches of accounting. They bring up major changes in the financial status of the entities. The main objective of financial reporting is to provide information on assest and liabilities about the particular entity, which helps it to make useful financial decision. The fair value (FV) is a common among accounting and finance professionals. Today the majority of the investors and creditors prefer FV. On the other hand these policy and…

something. In companies or industries cost is valuation of effort, resources, material, time spent, risks incurred and opportunity in production and delivery of goods. Cost accounting is also considered as cost volume profit analysis. This model is useful elementary instruction and for making short run decisions. Cost accounting is process of finding cost for the production of fixed cost and variable cost. By making an attempt to deal with the relationship between costs, sales and net income,…

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Unit -1 Discussion Board 2 Douglas Hitchens Colorado Technical University ACC350-1704A-01 Managerial Accounting Practices Professor Bih Horng Chiang October 4th, 2017 How do managerial accountants support strategic decisions? When looking at how managerial accountants support strategic decisions, we must first look at as to how the managerial accountants role plays into the day to day business decisions of the company. Managerial accountants offer essential data to the organization by…

Plan members must select a primary care practitioner which could be a physician, physician assistant or a nurse practitioner. The primary care is responsible for coordinating health delivery for plan members. Receiving care by a specialist physician will require a referral from the primary care provider (PCP.) This cost containment strategy is intended to avoid service being duplicated by the PCP and the specialist. (www.amjc.com) The similarities of both the HMO’s and PPO…

Question 5 The overhead rate is the total of indirect cost for a specific reporting period, divided by an allocation measure. Overhead rate is the percentage that we get after comparing to the total overhead expenses with the total expenses. Overhead rate has differentiate into 2 types which is blanket overhead rate (single overhead rate) and departmental overhead rate. Blanket overhead rate (single overhead rate) is the most simplistic tradisional costing system. It assign indirect cost…

Cost Accounting Cost accounting refers to the internal financial system to track expenditures and costs within an organization. Such a system guide managers and decision-makers in their actions as they show the profit or loss of the organization within a specific period of time. Traditional accounting process considers only direct cost related to the product and skips many environmental and hidden costs. For example, if toxic materials are emitted during the development of a product, then it…

series of accounting, corporate law and auditing theories and practice with a specific case in each class to analyze how the theories apply, which could better help us understand the theories as well as thinking more critically. Before studying this subject, we all think as an accountant, the corporate governance is a little bit far away from us. However, through the content of each week, from the principle conflict to sub-committees and finally CSR, the core of the issue is the accounting…