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  • Lab Budgeting and Cost Accounting Under Drgs

    Lab Budgeting and Cost Accounting Under Drgs

    Lab budgeting and cost accounting under DRGs Medical Laboratory Observer, Feb, 1985 by W. Glenn Cannon Cost accounting is not a solution to management problems. It is a management tool designed to provide information that facilitates sound decisions. The two primary objectives of cost accounting are 1) to match cost with revenue and 2) to match resource consumption with the units of service provided. Under the DRG system, matching revenue with cost and evaluating appropriate

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    Essay Length: 1,230 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Jack
  • Uk and Us Accounting Standards

    Uk and Us Accounting Standards

    In today’s unpredictable stock markets, it is extremely important for investors to expand investments to minimize risk and earn reasonable returns on funds. The diversification does not have to be restricted to domestic companies because of opportunities available in foreign markets. On the other hand, securities analysis becomes more complex because of supplementary variables such as foreign exchange risk, political, economic, cultural diversities, etc. that need to be taken into deliberation in making investment judgment.

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    Essay Length: 3,568 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Mike
  • Financial Accounting Statement 142

    Financial Accounting Statement 142

    Financial Accounting Statement 142 Intangible assets are an increasingly important economic resource for many businesses. Intangible assets have also become a greater portion of assets gained in an acquisition or business combination. Therefore, more useful information about intangible assets is needed for both those involved in the transaction and potential investors in the public community. Statement 142 replaces Accounting Principles Board (APB) Opinion No. 17, Intangible Assets in order to produce better information on which

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    Essay Length: 1,784 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: regina
  • Accounting 101

    Accounting 101

    Financial Accounting Unit 1 Business and the Role of Accounting A.) D.C. Dawg starts his own business and contributes $6000.00 This shows in the statement of cash flows and it shows in the owner’s equity in looking at total assets D.C. has a ratio of 3:1 dollars invested over his liabilities. For every dollar borrowed he has put up three of his own dollars. As a lender I would see this as a positive. B.)

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    Essay Length: 385 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Victor
  • Equity Accounting and Consolidations

    Equity Accounting and Consolidations

    Chapter 14 Equity accounting and consolidations Second edition update, June 2005. Fair value adjustments and goodwill [p. 435 et seq.] A parent company rarely acquires a subsidiary at a price equal to the book value of the latter’s net assets. The price it pays reflects its assessment of the cash flows those net assets are expected to generate. The amount may be more or less than book value. As a result, a positive or negative

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    Essay Length: 264 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Incorporating Professional Ethics Throughout an Accounting Curriculum - Ethics Article Review

    Incorporating Professional Ethics Throughout an Accounting Curriculum - Ethics Article Review

    Ethics article Review The article chosen to review is, “Incorporating Professional Ethics throughout an Accounting Curriculum”. This article discusses how many accountant programs struggle to ensure that ethics is set into the business curriculum of a student. Accountant students are training to enter an establishment based on code of conduct and code of ethics. Therefore, accounting programs should accentuate why ethics is a necessary part of the business studies. The assigned reading which is Accounting

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    Essay Length: 695 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Mike
  • How Are Ministers Made Accountable

    How Are Ministers Made Accountable

    How are ministers made accountable in parliament? (15 marks) Accountability in parliament is the stem of the fundamentals of democracy; it is how we know that the ministers within the party we elect are doing their job correctly and to make sure the minister becomes responsible for any misdeeds or faults while practicing his/her profession. One of the most obvious forms of rendering out the faults of individual ministers is parliamentary scrutiny or to be

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    Essay Length: 387 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Monika
  • Technology in Accounting

    Technology in Accounting

    Technology is on a fast track and progresses in some fields take place on a daily basis. This does not exclude the accounting sector, where things are not as simple as keeping books to show profit, loss and the balance in the bank. Financial accounting systems have evolved rapidly over the past decade as companies grapple with the challenges of compressed business cycles, rising customer demand and a globalized, expanding customer base. The accounting

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    Essay Length: 664 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: Top
  • Accounting

    Accounting

    The report focus on the financial statement analysis of Tick-Tock during 2005 to 2007.And at the same time provides the recommendation whether to purchase Tick-Tock for $2,000 or continue looking for another business. This financial statement has been divided into three segments: profitability, liquidity and financial stability .The first part is profitability which focuses on different aspect of return on investment & evaluating operating performance ratios. And the second segment concrete on the liquidity, as

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    Essay Length: 1,247 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: Steve
  • Managerial Accounting Vs Financial Accounting

    Managerial Accounting Vs Financial Accounting

    Managerial and Financial Accounting ACCT/300: Principles of Accounting April 9, 2008 Managerial and Financial Accounting This paper will attempt to differentiate between managerial and financial accounting, the users of managerial and financial accounting and what type of business decisions would be made with the information. Managerial Accounting Managerial accounting provides accounting information to managers who are inside an organization and who directs and controls its operations, to help them make decisions to manage the business.

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    Essay Length: 720 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Meaning of Cost Accounting

    The Meaning of Cost Accounting

    Meaning of Cost Accounting Previously, cost accounting was considered to be a technique for the ascertainment of costs of products or services on the basis of historical data. In time, due to the competitive nature of the market, it was realized that ascertaining of cost is not as important as controlling costs. Cost accounting started to be considered more as a technique for cost control as compared to cost ascertainment. Due to the technological developments

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    Essay Length: 1,345 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Jack
  • Bridgteon Industries Cost Accounting System

    Bridgteon Industries Cost Accounting System

    The managerial accounting system at Bridgeton, as it is presented, seems to be lacking detail necessary for efficient analysis. The sections used are sales, direct material, direct labor and overhead by account number, each divided into individual accounts and summed to find totals. There is no separation of fixed and variable costs in any of the accounts, making it difficult to analyze exactly where operations are costing money and, therefore, how they could possibly be

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    Essay Length: 1,173 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Accounting Overview

    Accounting Overview

    Both Managerial Accountants and Financial Accountants produce reports and information explicit to their position within their company. Financial and Managerial Accountants begin with the same raw data to generate different report. These reports differ and can be used by several audiences for different purposes. Financial Accounting is an analysis of a company’s past performance and is a backward way of thinking. Financial accounting is in plain black and white and leaves little to the imagination.

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    Essay Length: 890 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Overview of Accounting

    Overview of Accounting

    Accounting is a major part of business. No matter what kind of business it is, without good account skills the business has a good chance of failing. The basics of accounting are simple, and broken down into four major parts to understand, they are: A Balance sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement, and a Statement of Returned Earnings. The basic understanding of accounting is broken up into two major categories, assets and liabilities. Assets are

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    Essay Length: 554 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: Mike
  • Accountability

    Accountability

    What is accountability and the definition: (DOD) The obligation imposed by law or lawful order or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds. The person having this obligation may or may not have actual possession of the property, documents, or funds. Accountability is concerned primarily with records, while responsibility is concerned primarily with custody, care, and safekeeping. Why is accountability important to the Army? Accountability is

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    Essay Length: 339 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: Steve
  • Accounting Types

    Accounting Types

    Types of Assets Cash-Monetary items that are available to meet current obligations of the business. It includes bank deposits, currency & coins, checks, money orders, and traveler's checks. Accounts Receivable-Business claims against the property of a customer arising from the sale of goods and/or services on account. Notes Receivable-Formal written promises given by customers or others to pay definite sums of money to the business at specified times. Inventory-Expenditures for items held for resale in

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    Essay Length: 367 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: Steve
  • Accounting

    Accounting

    Question 1: a) List out the financial statements that reporting enterprises present in their annual reports. What information can be derived from these statements? b) What are the objectives of financial statements? c) Who are the users of financial information? What decisions do these users make and what information do they need? d) What are the principle qualitative characteristics of financial information? Explain these characteristics. Are there other qualitative characteristics? If there are, list and

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    Essay Length: 1,239 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 18, 2010 By: Jon
  • History of Accounting

    History of Accounting

    Once upon a time, Luca Pacioli wrote a math book. It was just a little survey and should have been treated like ordinary books of the time and read and then disappeared into historical archives and forgotten. A few brief chapters on practical mathematics made this one special. The time was 1494. Columbus had discovered America just two years before. The author was a Franciscan monk. The chapter on practical mathematics addressed mathematics in business.

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    Essay Length: 1,196 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 18, 2010 By: regina
  • Accounting Changes

    Accounting Changes

    Many investors believe they know everything there may be to know of companies, but the SEC made that all happen in its ruling about disclosers in its financial statements in 2002. The SEC now was able to make it possible for everyone, not just insiders to see the company for who they truly were. No creative accounting policy could be done with about a thorough explanation in the companies annual 10-K report. The reason many

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    Essay Length: 1,519 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Case Study- "confidential Accounts at Swiss Bank Corporation"

    Case Study- "confidential Accounts at Swiss Bank Corporation"

    Ethical principles are essential for the proper and fair conduct of business around the world. In principal, ethical principles can and should dominate any and all decision making, regardless if it occurs during a business transaction. Without ethics, it would be impossible to conduct business and establish the trust necessary between consumers and business entities. Of the many ethical principles that exist, several exist that relate to business ethics. Egoism is defined as the ethical

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    Essay Length: 1,210 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Howard Street Jewelry Accounting Case Study on Internal Controls

    Howard Street Jewelry Accounting Case Study on Internal Controls

    Howard Street Jewelry Accounting Case Study on Internal Controls 1. The main internal control concept the Levis ignored was segregation of duties. No one person should be responsible for all transactions from the beginning to the end. Betty had too many responsibilities that were interwoven and should have been performed by more than one person. She handled the cash that came in, maintained the cash receipts and the sales records. Another concept that this relates

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    Essay Length: 1,039 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Accountability in the Army

    Accountability in the Army

    What is accountability and the definition: (DOD) The obligation imposed by law or lawful order or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds. The person having this obligation may or may not have actual possession of the property, documents, or funds. Accountability is concerned primarily with records, while responsibility is concerned primarily with custody, care, and safekeeping. Why is accountability important to the Army? Accountability is

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    Essay Length: 345 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Mike
  • Accounting Regulatory Bodies

    Accounting Regulatory Bodies

    Accounting Regulatory Bodies The purpose of accounting is to provide information needed to make economic decisions. Financial accounting is the tasks of preparing financial reports that provide information about an organizations performance and external audiences. External users consist of investors, creditors, and regulators. The same financial reports are also used by internal users, such as managers. In the United States, financial accounting is performed while adhering to General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) guidelines. Regulatory bodies

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    Essay Length: 601 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 23, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Accounting

    Accounting

    Preface Financial statements are prepared and presented for external users by many enterprises around the world. Although such financial statements may appear similar from country to country, there are differences which have probably been caused by a variety of social, economic and legal circumstances and by different countries having in mind the needs of different users of financial statements when setting national requirements. These different circumstances have led to the use of a variety of

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    Essay Length: 1,667 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: March 23, 2010 By: Jon
  • Customer Relationship Management with Respect to Recurring Deposit Account of Sbi and Icici

    Customer Relationship Management with Respect to Recurring Deposit Account of Sbi and Icici

    INTRODUCTION OF TOPIC TOPIC To make comparative analysis of Customer Relationship Management with respect to Recurring Deposit Account of SBI and ICICI. INTRODUCTION Aim of Customer Relationship Management is to produce Customer Equity. Three major drivers of customer equity are: 1. Value Equity: This measures the customer perception about benefits relative to its cost. The sub drivers of value equity are quality, price and convenience. 2. Brand Equity: Customer’s subjective and intangible assessment of

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    Essay Length: 706 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Mike

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