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Opportunity Cost in Finance and Accounting

Book by H. G. Heymann, Robert Bloom; Quorum Books, 1990

Subjects:

Cost Accounting, Finance, Opportunity Costs

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...Capital 35 Opportunity Costs and Fixed Resources in...Rules 42 Opportunity Cost Measures and Profit Optimization 44 Opportunity Costs and Ordinal Ranking 48...Applications of the Opportunity Cost Principle 53 3. Opportunity Cost Principle in Finance 61 Rational Decision...Opportunity Cost Principle and Accounting 91 Accounting Postulates...
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Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers: All the Basics You Need to Know

Book by William G. Droms; Perseus Books, 1997

Subjects:

Accounting, Business Enterprises--Finance, Managerial Accounting

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...objective of managerial accounting is to collect, report...decision making. In cost accounting, a major objective...and assign relevant costs in a business organization...find widely divergent accounting techniques within the...
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The Ethics of Accounting and Finance: Trust, Responsibility, and Control

Book by W. Michael Hoffman, Judith Brown Kamm, Robert E. Frederick, Edward S. Petry; Quorum, 1996

Subjects:

Accounting--Moral And Ethical Aspects--Congresses, Business Ethics--Congresses, Finance--Moral And Ethical Aspects--Congresses

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...behavior and look out for other forms of accounting support. This can detract from what...and leads to evasive behavior; the costs of the remedy are out of proportion...interests: the legal obligation can cost them customers, some of whom make a beeline for accounting support which is not subject to compulsory...
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The Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers

Book by Edward Fields; AMACOM, 2002

Subjects:

Accounting

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...Completed Contract Method An accounting procedure used for long-term...the product less the variable cost to produce it. This term is...smaller commercial banks. Cost Accounting The accounting practice of measuring the
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Just-in-Time Accounting: How to Decrease Costs and Increase Efficiency

Book by Steven M. Bragg; John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Subjects:

Accounting

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...problems with identifying costs and associated savings...described. Streamlining the accounting function eliminates some of the old accounting reports. However...actual reports for a new accounting system. In addition...ac- counts payable, cost accounting, payroll...by the accounting or finance manager who wants to...

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Economic Value Added: Finance 101 on Steroids

Journal article by Vincent J. Calabrese; The Journal of Bank Cost & Management Accounting, Vol. 12, 1999

Subjects:

Capital budgeting, Capital costs, Economic value added, Net present value, Shareholders wealth, United States

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...estimated cash flows and the cost of capital. First lets...profit before financing costs and non-cash expenses...necessary to convert accounting profits into economic...side of the equation. Cost of capital in this formula...the use of the term in Finance 101 to represent a percentage...to financing form or accounting adjustments. This represents...
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GASB Proposes Change from Cost-Based Accounting

Journal article; Journal of Accountancy, Vol. 181, 1996

Subjects:

Cost accounting--Standards, Governmental Accounting Standards Board--Standards, Public finance--Accounting and auditing

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GASB proposes change from cost-based accounting The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has proposed that governments...report investments at fair value. Comments on Accounting and Financial Reporting for Certain Investments...
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Capitalizing on Customer Interactions: Best Practice Marketing Strategies in the Retail Finance Industry

Journal article by Michael Trigg; The Journal of Bank Cost & Management Accounting, Vol. 16, 2003

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...Customers - 3,000 Incremental Cost Savings Per Customer (Acquisition cost $250 less cost of retention $50) - $200 Saved Acquisition Costs - $600,000 As these two scenarios...practice companies in the retail finance industry are now making a decisive...
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Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting and Earnings Management: the Role of Political Costs

Journal article by Erica Yip, Chris Van Staden, Steven Cahan; Australasian Accounting Business & Finance Journal, Vol. 5, 2011

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...According to the political cost hypothesis, large firms are more likely to use accounting choices that reduce reported...disclosures to reduce political costs. For example, these companies may choose to use accounting methods that reduce reported...support for the political cost hypothesis. For example...
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Working Capital Fund Pricing Policies: Lessons from Defense Finance and Accounting Service Expenditure and Workload Data

Journal article by Edward G. Keating, Susan M. Gates; Public Administration Review, Vol. 62, 2002

Subjects:

Accounting--Analysis, Administrative agencies--Finance, Defense industry--Finance, Transfer pricing--Analysis, United States. Department of Defense--Finance

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...voucher is low. Average cost per work unit increases...the output-invariant cost of maintaining or depreciating...growing portion of DFASs cost structure is driven by the costs of creating and maintaining finance and accounting systems, not in the...

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Reengineering the Accounting and Finance Functions

Magazine article by Gloria Vollmers; The CPA Journal, Vol. 67, May 1997

Subjects:

Accounting, Benchmarks, Business process reengineering, Cost control, Outsourcing, United States

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...accounts payable costs rising out...compare the cost of your companys finance functions to...areas where cost savings are...and measured accounting and finance...measure the costs of these functions...decline in finance costs from...Despite large cost reductions...a companys accounting and finance costs comprise two...
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State Fiscal Gimmicks: A Budgetary Balancing Act: Phony Budget Accounting Defers the Day of Reckoning-But Raises Costs

Magazine article by Katherine Barrett, Richard Greene; The American Prospect, Vol. 21, March 2010

Subjects:

Government accounting--Forecasts and trends, Public finance--Accounting and auditing, Public finance--Forecasts and trends, State budgets--Management, State finance--Control

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...Budgetary Balancing Act: Phony Budget Accounting Defers the Day of Reckoning-But Raises Costs. by Katherine Barrett , Richard Greene...often balanced with gimmicks that can cost states, localities, and taxpayers more...with no real plans for paying the annual costs that go out decades into the future...
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Accounting for Contingency Operations: the Role of Defense Finance and Accounting Service Denver

Magazine article by David Hnat; DISAM Journal of International Security Assistance Management, Vol. 22, Summer 2000

Subjects:

Contingencies, Costs, Department of Defense, Government agencies, Public finance

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Accounting for Contingency...Role of Defense Finance and Accounting Service Denver by...Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS...provides detailed cost data by contingency...within the DoD. The costs reported each month...
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Donaldson Tackles Costs of New Rules

Magazine article by Gordon Platt; Global Finance, Vol. 19, March 2005

Subjects:

Business costs, Compliance, Public Company Accounting Reform & Investor Protection Act 2002-US, Regulatory agencies, Securities & Exchange Commission, United States

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Donaldson Tackles Costs of New Rules by Gordon Platt William...Exchange Commission, says he wants to do a cost-benefit analysis of the rules and regulations...Corporate executives are complaining that the costs are high and the benefits are going to...justified. The survey found that the largest accounting firms have doubled their audit fees with...
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Regulators Act to Cut Costs of Compliance with Sarbox

Magazine article by Gordon Platt; Global Finance, Vol. 19, June 2005

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Accounting procedures, Cost reduction, Financial reporting, Public Company Accounting Reform & Investor Protection Act 2002-US, United States

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Regulators Act to Cut Costs of Compliance with Sarbox...also suggested that public accounting firms should recognize that...chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, said too...implement the section, each accounting firm that prepares or issues...

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Rewards Come at a Cost When Selling Your Firm to the Public; Here, in Our Latest Business Advice Series, Our Panel of Experts from Cardiff Business School, Eversheds, Broomfield & Alexander and Barclays Corporate Give First Rate Advice to Businesses in Wales Considering a Flotation Dr Louise Macniven, Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Cardiff Business School

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), May 4, 2011

Subjects:

Business schools, Going public (Securities), Initial public offerings

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...Macniven, Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Cardiff Business...these all come at a cost. You will need to become...need to consider the costs of listing. There is...ongoing basis. The real cost of listing will also...reports must conform to UK accounting principles, as accepted...
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Costs of DIY Project Often Spiral, Says Halifax; PERSONAL FINANCE

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 19, 2008

Subjects:

Do it yourself work, Do-it-yourself work, Personal finance

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...Halifax; PERSONAL FINANCE. DIY enthusiasts...underestimating the cost of their pet projects...source of increased costs, the bank said after...10,320 that it costs to complete the average...for escalating costs by those who had under-budgeted for the cost of improvements...go over budget, accounting for almost a quarter...
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Needed: Budget Reforms to Save Money into the Future; Americans Are Fed Up with Shadowy Accounting Trickery

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), September 5, 2011

Subjects:

Accounting--Government finance, Expenditures, Public--Government finance, Public expenditures--Government finance

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Instead, it uses a variety of accounting tricks and subterfuges that...Considering the extremely onerous accounting regulations it has imposed...right that the governments own accounting should pass muster. The budgetary...carry the force of law, at a cost of $65 billion, and repealed...union wage rates. This raises costs for taxpayers up to 20 percent...
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Banks Given Option in New Accounting Rules

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, October 26, 2008

Subjects:

Accounting, Banks (Finance)

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Banks Given Option in New Accounting Rules. Bangko Sentral ng...those measured at amortized cost. The implication of this...by this adjustment in the accounting treatment of investments in...amendments to International Accounting Standards (IAS) 39 and the...
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The High Cost of Bad Accounting; CITY FOCUS

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 30, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

The High Cost of Bad Accounting; CITY FOCUS. Byline...has been dented by accounting problems. Incompetent totting up of its finances means annual profits...It has found serious accounting errors in a division...lack of oversight. Finance director Ray Morley...failed to write off some costs for project work...

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Ford, Henry

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...successful early business and accounting procedures), the Dodge brothers...the company. By cutting the costs of production, by adapting...retirement, the companys accounting procedures were so primitive...accurately tell how much it cost to manufacture a car and the...in 1994, chairman of the finance committee in 1995, and chairman...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Philippine Insurrection (1899 1901) cost more American lives and dollars than the...In 1991 it was estimated that it would cost taxpayers $500 billion to save the industry...Jeffords of Vermont from the Republican party cost it control of the Senate, a setback due...

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