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Zero-Based Budgeting, 2003.
Examines the process.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 8 sources, AU$ 69.95
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Defines zero-based budgeting (ZBB) and explains how it works. Provides a history of ZBB. Discusses the role of Jimmy Carter as Governor of Georgia and President of the United States. Examines the implications of the ZBB concept and the justification of all costs.
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"This research examines the zero-based budgeting process. The dual purpose of the paper is to (1) define zero-based budgeting and (2) explain how the process works in practice."
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Small Retail Accounting, 2003.
Discusses how to establish successful accounting practices.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 104.95
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Examines the use of business records as a tool of business management. Defines assets, liabilities, double-entry bookkeeping, balance sheet, accrual method of accounting, hands-on bookkeeping system, and check writing.
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"This research describes how to establish successful accounting practices for a small retail outlet that does not require the services of a full-time accountant. Poor financial record keeping is recognized as one of the major factors of small-business ..."
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Green Accounting, 2003.
Discusses natural resources and a nation's Gross National Product.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 34.95
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Discusses natural resources and a nation's Gross National Product, the need to factor environmental benefits and costs into economic decision making, the World Bank's concept of a "green" Net National Product (green NNP), and the impact of the depletion of natural resources.
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"The accounting profession has finally realized that the expenditure of natural resources is something that every nation's gross national product has to include. Professor David Abler of Penn State University gives perhaps the ..."
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Dynegy's Accounting Practices, 2003.
Examines the legal problems of the energy trading company.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 9 sources, AU$ 69.95
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Discusses accounting-related problems and their affect on finances, marketing, and operations. Examines the company's restructuring, including filing for bankruptcy protection. Details Dynegy's problems and accounting issues.
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"Dynegy, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, is a major energy trading company that is in trouble. The firm's major business was energy trading until (1) it attempted and failed to acquire..."
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WorldCom, 2003.
Presents a case study of the long-distance telephone company's accounting practice.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 10 sources, AU$ 81.95
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Examines the firm's global reach and scale. Cites its worldwide business locations. Presents a history of "firsts" of this high tech company and discusses the 2002 fraud situation in the WorldCom case.
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"The case to be examined herein is that of WorldCom, the nation's second largest long-distance telephone company. WorldCom Group (NASDAQ: WCOM) was a high-growth data, Internet services operating unit of WorldCom, Inc.; World Com is..."
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Futures Market, 2003.
Discusses the functioning of the market in the U.S.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 16 sources, AU$ 93.95
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Discusses several issues, such as the size of the futures market and the trading volume. Discusses various participants in the futures market including speculators, product producers, commodities, band, investors, and day traders.
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"This research reviews the functioning of futures markets in the United States. Issues covered in the review are (1) the size of the futures markets, (2) participants in the market, and (3) concepts and..."
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The Process of Budgeting and Its Advantages, 2002.
A comprehensive examination of how and why companies use the budgeting process to achieve their goals.
2,314 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 5 sources, APA, AU$ 104.95
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This paper provides an overview and background of the budgeting process, including budget planning and the types of budget statements commonly used. An examination of the budgeting process in action is followed by a discussion of some constraints to effective budgeting. An analysis of strategic budgeting as an alternative is followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion.
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"An old saying advises that, ?We don?t plan to fail, we fail to plan.? The budget process was developed to allow companies to better understanding where they have come from, where they are currently, and how they can get where they want to go. According to Jack Welch, then CEO of General Electric, ?The budget is the bane of corporate America. It should never had existed.? Christian Babbini points out that Bob Lutz at Chrysler has made similar statements and a significant number of large European companies such as Ericsson, Volvo, Ikea, SKF and Diageo, have also abandoned the traditional budget or substantially altered the process. The reasons this disillusionment are well-known to everyone: budgets are frequently late, overly political in terms of trade-offs made, take too long to develop, take too many organizational resources and, fail to measure the critical things that make organizations successful in today's fast paced, global economy. In this view, ?The budget becomes God and people manage to the budget and not to the realities of the competitive environment.? This is not to say, of course, that the budgeting process does not have its place and function; it is to say, though, that companies may want to use some of the better alternatives which are available today which provide ?what if? analyses and change the budgeting process into a strategic planning tool rather than an annual exercise in stone carving."
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Ethics in Accounting Practices, 2003.
An overview of ethical issues affecting accounting practices.
1,113 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 6 sources, APA, AU$ 56.95
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This paper provides an overview of ethical issues affecting accounting practices as they relate to how stock options are expensed. Detail is provided regarding the background of the issue and forces in the accounting, business, and governmental communities that affect the resolution toward more accurate company income statements.
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?We can?t remember another time when there?s been more discourse about the lack of quality and transparency in corporate financial reporting than today. And it isn?t only the usual crowd of investors, legislators, regulators, journalists, lobbyists, bankers, accountants, and corporate financial managers. Even Jay Leno is satirizing accountants.?(Grant and Ciccotello, April, 2002) However, inconsistencies regarding accounting practices are not a new topic of the Enron era."
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Positive Accounting Theory, 2003.
A study of positive accounting theory and the economic consequences.
1,343 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 66.95
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This paper provides some research into "Positive Accounting Theory" and how it impacts on the economy. The paper begins with an explanation of the theory itself and then offers some statistics and findings regarding the consequences of its use by management.
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Introduction
Explaining the Theory
Economic Cconsequences
The Development of Positive Accounting Theory
How Positive Accounting Theory Operates
Mnagament Decisions
Watts and Zimmerman
Research and Findings
An Example of a PAT study
Conclusion
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"Positive Accounting Theory and the doctrine of economic consequences helps us to understand why different firms choose different accounting policies, why some managers may object to changes in these policies and why investors may react to the potential impact of an accounting policy change. Accounting policy choices have economic consequences for the various constituencies of financial statement users and though complicating the setting of accounting standards, the source of the pressures driving the process can be explained by the development of a positive theory of the determination of accounting standards."
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The Australian 1986- 1987 Budget, 2004.
This paper is on the 1986- 1987 Australian government budget.
1,240 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 15 sources, MLA, AU$ 62.95
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This paper on the Australian budget discusses the Fringe Benefit Tax, health reductions, defence budgets and other effects of budget schemes. It also looks at how it effects the society.
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"The 1986-87 Australian Budget Report is one which has arrived in a period where a three year economic growth pattern has dropped; there is a fall in the Australian exports and the earnings from them. The Budget had a 7% actual rise in spending, with a zero rise in real terms; so giving no reduction. It was satisfying for some people and disappointed for others."
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Xerox Fraud, 2002.
A look at the financial impetus of the Xerox corporate scandal.
2,061 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 15 sources, MLA, AU$ 95.95
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When it was learned that Xerox had overstated its revenues, it was just another in a long line of financial shocks that have rocked corporate America. What caused this fraud and what was the impact to the shareholders? This paper focuses on these questions and more regarding the Xerox scandal.
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"Xerox was formed in 1906 and had grown to an international corporation with over eighty thousand employees. Obviously this organization did not start out by defrauding people; it was a highly respected and well-known organization. Xerox became best known for their photo-copying machines that had taken over the market. Their machines and technology in the photo-copying department are so well known that the word 'Xerox' has become universally to be known as a photocopy (Pratley and Treanor 2002)."
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Cost Allocation, 2002.
A real world application of a cost allocation analysis.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 38.95
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This paper presents a complete analysis of cost allocation in a real world application.
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The Accounting Profession, 2002.
Issuesaffecting the accounting profession.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 38.95
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This paper covers the proposed policy changes affecting the accounting profession.
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Activity-Based Costing, 2002.
A look at Activity-Based Costing in the service industry.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 130.95
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This ten-page undergraduate paper examines Activity-Based Costing in the service industry and discusses how the service industry uses ABC to improve profits and competitiveness. In the process, the author explains the benefits of Activity-Based Costing.
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Ethics in Accounting, 2002.
An overview of the problems and solutions for ethical behavior in accounting firms.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 169.95
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This paper will discuss the current problems that are part of an ethical debate over accounting firms in America. By assessing why these problems, and why they are unethical, we can see examples of why poor ethics does not work in the accounting problems of today.
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Toshiba and Financial Management, 2002.
An applied knowledge paper on the financial management in Toshiba's manufacturing market.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 104.95
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This paper provides an applied knowledge assessment of financial management within a manufacturing plant. This paper addresses the aspects of financial management that tend to aid the company and clarify the ways through which this aid is achieved. This paper focuses on a manufacturing plant in respect to financial management in the areas of project design, growth strategy, and risk management.
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