Product costs Vs period costsAs commented by Chang et al., (2015), cost could be termed as sacrifice of resources in order to gain any specific benefit or other resource. The costs are categorised as follows: The product costs are those costs apportioned to the production of products and they are realised for financial reporting at the time of sale. Thus, with the help of these costs, Carl would be able to include direct labour, direct mate...
Relevance and application of the social contract to Legitimacy Theory in accountingThis study deals with analysing the relevance and application of social contract to Legitimacy Theory in Accounting (Van Bommel, 2014). The current segment explains that legitimacy theory in the area of accounting is significant in increasing the financial framework of Business Corporation and takes into account execution of social contract in aligning with the ...
Required journal entries Date Account description Amount Amount 01-07-14 Equipment 800,000.00 Cash 800,000.00 Equipment purchased 30-06-15 Depreciation expenses 152,000.00 Accumulated depreciation &...
The Concept of Auditor's IndependenceThe independence of the auditor explains the independency of the all the auditors irrespective of external or internal from the interested persons who may have a significant influence on the financial report of any entity. The auditors to be independent must apply the integrity and objectivity approach while performing the audit process. The independency of the auditor requires them to perform the audit wit...
Arrive with certain situations in organizational performance managementOrganizational performance management may be defined as a process of ensuring that company resources are being used in the pursuit of company objectives. The theory of performance management is commonly applied for the development of the employee. Performance management not only considers only individual employee as well as on groups, projects, process and the organization ov...
Background of the organizationThe company was incorporated on December 5th in 1924.The company is doing business in Australian and New Zealand in retail sector and is second largest company of earning revenue in Retail Sector. The company has segments of business operations in Australia –Food and Petrol, hotels, Endeavour Drinks Groups and BIGW and in New Zealand it has supermarkets. The goal of the company is the customer is suprem...
Task A1: Complete Budgeted Income StatementThe budget which is prepared is based on a quarter and the budget shows both actual and budgeted results of ACA Travel Agency. The main source of revenue of the business is through international package, domestic packages, international air travel and domestic air travel. The budgeted estimate which is made by the business in case of revenues of the business is shown to be $ 2,508,000 and the actual r...
TBR Infra PVT Ltd.Activity-Based Costing (ABC) has been significance since the 1980s since it stays away from cost twists and gives a method see which traditional cost accounting can't give. Activity-Based Costing is based on a "stream see" in progress speculation in that ABC gets two-arranged costing, i.e., assets are doled out to exercises and exercises are doled out to cost objects (Cardos, I.R. 2010) [4]. The construction market is very...
Computation of Key Financial Ratios of the CompaniesThe assessment is subdivided into two parts which is task 1 and task 2 and both the parts are covered in the discussion section. The first part analyzes the business of two companies which are Marks and Spencer and Next Plc which is operating in the same industry. The purpose of the analysis is to understand which business is performing better in financial terms. The first part shows applica...
Acquisition analysis Share capital 100,000 Retained earnings 175,000 Plant 21,000 Computer equipment 14,000 Net fair value of identifiable assets and liabilities 310,000 Net fair value of identifiable assets and liabilities  ...
Challenges in the Accounting SectorPerformance of accountants at Caltex can be influenced by many things and concept and theories are some of the many ways. Managerial performance is the measurement of managers productivity in a company, through the evaluation of the quality and quantity of the fulfillment of the goals that were set by the budget, effectiveness of the practices conducted by the accountants, and finally the total number of in...
Requirements for LMM AccountingThe case study considered for this report is a local start-up firm named as LMM Accounting. This is a small local firm that runs small business on a part time basis from home itself. The owner of the company now wants to expand its business to next level by employing employees on full time basis and also wants to run his business from some local business hub. The local business hubs are defined where number of sm...
Background and AbstractA report has been prepared having 2 questions. The 1st question includes the profit and loss account and the balance sheet based on which the profitability and liquidity ratios have been calculated for the 2 companies ABC Ltd and XYZ Ltd and the performance of the companies have been analysed based on the same (Boccia & Leonardi, 2016). Furthermore the inventory turnover ratio as well as inventory turnover ...
Management AccountingIn the given case, the CEO of Pearson company is in need of the management accountant as he has heard that the management accounting system can be very beneficial for the company in terms of providing both the financial as well as non-financial information to the managers as well as the employees (Bromwich & Scapens, 2016) Management accounting is a branch of accounting which provided the analysis of the financ...
Foreign Exchange RiskThe audit of a business is a critical process and the purpose for the same is to identify material misstatements which can affect the quality of financial reporting which is used by every business for the purpose of recording and classifying financial information of a business. In many cases, the audit of a business can also be affected by certain key events or disclosures which are of significant nature. In this case, the a...
Activity-Based Costing MethodIt can be clearly observed in the 21st century that the business environment of change the lord and made it more challenging to conduct of business. The increasing demands of also holds did the banks to provide the customers with the new type of services and products that we can fulfil the market requirements. New techniques are used in order to fetch funds from the public by the banks. Technological measures have ...
Overview of Orora LimitedThis assignment is based on the consideration of the accounting theory concepts and critical analysis on the application of the General purpose financial reporting made by the corporations. This is intended to evaluate the effectiveness of the corporation to meet its obligations of conceptual framework of accounting (Arnott, et al., 2017). In order to serve this purpose one of the ASX Top 100 listed company namin...
Accounting-based Bonus Plans and Conservative Accounting Methods1. In case, accounting-based bonus plans are used for rewarding the senior managers within an organisation, they would not prefer conservative accounting methods. The methods need a degree of verification before any legal claim is made for profit. The recognition of expenses or losses would be made at the time they are incurred (Brigham et al., 2016). Hence, it would not be possib...
Differences between Management Accounting and Financial AccountingIt is quite often being said that the management accounting and financial accounting differs in a number of ways, the former being forward looking and the latter being backward looking having a post facto analysis. Though both of these have the common end objective of better future for the organization, however, management accounting is much broader than the financial accounting...
Part 1: Analysis of GSK Plc profitabilityThe report deals with four parts, which provide understanding about different topics. The first part covers the profitability analysis of GSK Plc for the year 2016-17 by calculating key financial ratios for the company. The outcomes of the ratios are then compared to its competitor AstraZeneca Plc, a company operating in the same industry. The second part provides insights about the concept of Zero-base...
Situational AnalysisThe marketing audit is one of the most success-critical factors for every business. It is significant for companies of every size to think of undertaking a marketing audit with the purpose of recognizing and reviewing the present position of brand marketing related activities and assist in reducing future expenditure. In the opinion of Baker (2014), it can be stated that predominantly for the SMEs (small to medium enterpris...
DiscussionThe assessment aims to evaluate the annual report of Medibank for the year 2018 for the purpose of assessing the conceptual framework which is followed by the business. The assessment also aims to analyze a new article which is related to the company and the article is related to the dissatisfaction of the customers and also loss of market shares from the core products of the business. The article clearly states that the business is we...
Company OverviewAccounting refers to the process that must be followed by the entities to record the business transactions, present them in a fair and transparent manner and thereby enabling the various stakeholders to form informed judgements about the financial and overall performance (Chand, Patel and White, 2015). The regulatory bodies prescribe a framework comprising of the guidelines, policies, and procedures that must be adhered to while ...
Role of financial accounting in internal and external environment Question 1: Difference between capital expenditure and revenue expenditure: Capital expenditure of an entity represents about the expenses on the fixed assets which is expected to improve the productivity of an asset for a long time whereas the revenue expenditure of an entity is the total cost which is associated to particular revenue transaction such as cost of goods so...
Case 1: Short-term and Long-term Debt FinancingCase 1 From: STUDENT NAME, Consultant To: CEO & Audit Committee Date: November 12, 2017 Subject: Critical analysis of short term & long term financing Dear Sir Financing is crucial for the smooth functioning and expansion of any business. With regards to various sources of financing, some provide short term financing such as commercial papers and working capital loans. On the ot...