Accounting Theory Essays and Term Papers
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Why Are Ethics Important in the Accounting Profession?
Why Are Ethics Important In The Accounting Profession? Sheree Fletcher CE CAPSTONE COURSE FOR THE ASSOCIATES DEGREE IDS399 September 10, 2006 What does ethics have to do with accounting? Everything, since there have been some recent financial accounting scandals; a few examples being Xerox, WorldCom, Enron, which have generated much unwanted and unfavorable publicity for CPA’s, including those working as controllers or chief financial officers for organizations. When you hear the word “ethics,” what
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Reality and Choice Theory
1. "Reality therapy concentrates on the client's needs and getting them to confront the reality of the world. In Reality Therapy, these needs are classified into power, love and belonging, freedom, fun, and survival. Survival includes the things that we need in order to stay alive, such as food, clothing and shelter. Power is our sense of achievement and feeling worthwhile, as well as the competitive desire to win. Love and belonging represent our social
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Big Bang Theory
The big bang theory The big bang theory first originated from the early 1600’s from a man named Galileo Galilei. The whole theory didn’t unfold until the 20th century when powerful telescopes and other equipment allowed us to see the vastness of our galaxies as well as galaxies beyond ours. A priest by the name of George Lemaitre was the first to propose that the universe began with a big explosion. He claimed that the
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Accounting
Accounting is a career that offers many job opportunities and advancements, and a little hard work will inevitably lead to happiness and success. Accountants have different duties depending on the size and nature of the company where they are employed. Usually accountants prepare and analyze financial reports that polish up-to-date information for government agencies, businesses, and other organizations. The data accountants provide information that influences nearly every business and government decision. This is important because
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Management: Theory, Practice, Application
MANAGEMENT: THEORY, PRACTICE, APPLICATION Functions of Management Management is defined as the process of working with people and resources to accomplish organizational goals Snell, Bateman (2007). Even though the people, resources and goals might change constantly, the one thing that never changes is the way that managers achieve these goals. The entire concept and effectiveness of management is made up of four distinct and equally important functions. The four functions of management, defined as planning,
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Accounting Case Study on General Mills
Accounting Case Study on General Mills General Mills, Inc. Financial Accounting Case Study Module 1: A. General Mills Consolidated Statements of Earnings: 1. The recorded sale amount of almost $8 billion is not the actual amount of cash collected. The amount of $8 billion includes cash and credit sales. 2. Sales increased each year from 2000 to 2002. The difference between the year 2000 and 2001 was a 5.35% increase (5,450-5,173/5,173 = .0535). The difference
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Ethics - Fasb - Accounting - Ethical and Legal Obligations Paper
Week Two - Ethical and Legal Obligations Paper Ethical standards have had vast changes over the years. Michael Josephson, in Chapter 1 of Ethical Issues in the Practice of Accounting, 1992, described the "Ten Universal Values." They were as follows: honesty, integrity, promise-keeping, fidelity, fairness, caring, respect for others, responsible citizenship, pursuit of excellence, and accountability. Good ethics does not always mean good business practices. The purpose of ethics in business is to direct business
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“how Useful Are Content and Process Theories of Motivation in Explaining What Really
“How useful are content and process theories of motivation in explaining what really motivates people to work?” Motivation is a complex concept to define, psychologically everyone has experienced the emotion and feeling motivation gives individually for different reasons. It is aspired within everyone to fulfill the inspiration or enthusiasm that comes from each individual of us. From resources I have researched it is referred, as “essentially an area of psychology, which attempts to explain why
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Theories on Social Inequality from a Functionalist, Conflict, and Symbolic-Interactionist Points of View
Social inequality is the issue pertaining to the lack of housing, health care, education, employment opportunities, and status. It is the dismissal of people from participation in what we, the members of society distinguish as being valuable, important, socially desirable, and personally worthwhile. There are many different perspectives on social inequality within our society; the three areas I am going to focus on are those of the Functionalist, Conflict and Symbolic-Interactionist. The Functionalist theory believes
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Contingency Theories of Effective Leadership
CONTINGENCY THEORIES OF EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP • Contingency Theory – Theory that explains leadership effectiveness in terms of situational moderator variables LPC (Least Preferred Co-Worker) CONTINTENCY MODEL • The LPC contingency model describes how the situation moderates the relationship between leadership effectiveness and a trait measure called the “least preferred co-worker” score Leader LPC Score • The LPC score is determined by: • Asking a leader to think of all past and present co-workers • Select
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Critically Discuss Strengths and Weaknesses of McClelland's Acquired Needs Theory and Expectancy Theory
Critically discuss strengths and weaknesses of McClelland’s acquired needs theory and Expectancy theory. Motivation play an important role in today’s work environment as motivated employees are more productive employees. However, the ways how we motivate the employees have to be improved from time to time as employees are being more demanding and that they are more concern about their needs than before. Motivational strategies have probably affected the most by employee concerns and values (Greiner
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The Accountant: An Analysis of Negotiation
The Accountant: An Analysis of Negotiation “Can one man, one hard drinking, chain smoking, backwoods accountant, stop a national conspiracy, change the course of history, and save a way of life? It's do-able... but it ain't gonna be purdy.” The tagline for the 38 minute 2001 Oscar winner for Best Live Action Short Film, The Accountant, helps illustrate two men sharing a common goal, saving the farm to preserve a way of life. The Accountant
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Aristotle's Ethical Theory and How It Conflicts, If at All, with Our Contemporary Worldview
Aristotle's ethical theory and how it conflicts, if at all, with our contemporary worldview. Aristotle is one of the most well known philosophers in history. He was born in 384 BC in Stagira, which is in Macedonia. His father was personal physician to the king of Macedonia at that time, Amyntas. He lived until 322 BC when he died at a family estate in Euboea. Aristotle is credited with many great accomplishments during his time.
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Own Theory of Personality
The perception of personality varies from person to person. The conclusion of what an individual's personality may be is based upon the criteria of the person observing another. Our profile--our personality--stands in dialectical relationship to perception. What we are as a personality, our motives, goals, temperaments, and so on, influence what we perceive as a situation; and this perception itself will influence our personality. Each person is a unique personality, a profile of motivational, temperamental,
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Bp Accounting Ratios
A company?s financial statements and ratios are good indicators of its performance over the years. This report specifically compares the ratios for 2004 and 2005, with some additional insight into 2003, 2002, and 2001. The current ratio has increased by 0.0534 from 0.9900 to 1.434. As the current ratio is a measure of liquidity and ability to meet short-term debt requirements, BP was more able to meet their short term debt obligations in 2005 than
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Theory of Constraints
Background Eastern Financial Florida Credit Union is the largest credit union in South Florida. The last three years have been intensive with rates dipping to there lowest in 40 years. Because of this, 92% of mortgage holders had economic reasons to refinance. Eastern exists to achieve goals to improve member service, work performance and increase profitability; however, certain factors limit their capacity to manage constraints and they needed help. Eastern Weak Links Eastern needed
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Theory of Relativity
Alltel has sales revenue of almost eight billion dollars last year, but the Alltel shops see you in most towns are a relatively small business. This break is probably true for internal controls also, the shops have relatively few controls but hopefully the corporation as a whole has more. We are looking at the sales process and the controls in place and missing that go along with the process. The first control in place is
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Capital Account Convertibility in India
INTRODUCTION The objective of this paper is to discuss the highly intensified debate on the issue of Capital Account Convertibility (CAC) in India. There is no formal definition of Capital Account convertibility but the Tarapore committee set up in February 1997 gave a pragmatic working definition of CAC as “CAC refers to the freedom to convert local financial assets into foreign financial assets and vice versa at market determined rates of exchange. It is associated
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Public Company Accounting Oversight Board; Will It Protect Investors?
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board; Will it Protect Investors? The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) was created by Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. This board was created to oversee the audit of public companies, subject to the securities laws, in order to protect the interests of investors (15 USC 7201, 2002). It was created in wake of the recent financial scandals of Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing to name a few. This “Act” established by
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An Accounting Problem
The annuities department was faced with an accounting problem. The current accounting system would be obsolete in a few years and our business customers are currently experiencing resource issues when problems arise and support for this system is required. Since financial reporting is a complex process, convoluted action was required to resolve this problem. The annuity technology group, along with the annuity business group came up with three possible solutions and conducted a high level
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Tax Law & Accounting Paper
Tax Law and Accounting Sue Abraham University of Phoenix Tax Law and Accounting The word “tax” did not become a household name until the late 1800’s when congress created the nation’s first income tax law. Prior to this law the government used tariff’s and imported goods to help support the economy. However, in order to bring in more revenue to help cover the costs of the civil war the government had to make necessary
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Theory of Absolute Cost Advantage
Theory of Absolute Cost Advantage MERCANTILISTS’ VERSION Mercantilism stretched over nearly three centuries, ending in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. It was the period when the nation-states were consolidating in Europe. For the purpose of consolidation, they required gold that could best be accumulated through trade surplus. In order to achieved trade surplus, their governments monopolized trade activities, provided subsidies and other incentives for export, and restricted imports. Since most European countries were
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Osmosis Theory
OSMOSIS Osmosis Theory Diagrams available in any science book Osmosis is the diffusion of a solvent through a partially permeable membrane until there is an equal concentration on either side of the membrane. The partially permeable membrane contains pores that are very small. Because these pores are only very small, only certain molecules can pass through it. Usually though the membrane will allow all or none of the molecules through. When only one type of
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Inequality and Radical Theory
INEQUALITY AND RADICAL THEORY Inequality and Distribution of Crime Theorists attempt to attack the engulfing problem of crime from many different angles. Crime is so encompassing that it is difficult to know where to begin. Often times it is toiling to decide on a definition of the intangible subject of crime. This paper proposes that the problem of solving crime is difficult because crime is very diverse. It is just as equally difficult to devise
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Kant’s Formalism Theory
Kant's Formalism Theory The theories of Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, have had an impact on the formulation and shaping of ethics today. Immanuel Kant graced this earth from 1724 to 1804. During his eighty year life time, he formulated many interesting ideas regarding ethical conduct and motivation. Kant is strictly a non-consequentialist philosopher, which means that he believes that a person's choices should have nothing to do with the desired outcome, but instead mankind
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