ACC 548 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Reporting Requirements M to purchase http://allmysolution.com/ACC-548_c119.htm Product Description One issue in accounting is the qualifications of an accountant when working for a client. It is expected that a CPA will not engage in an assignment without proper qualifications. Your firm has the ability to bid on two projects: the first is engagement and examination work—not consulting or audit—for a small county hospital. The second is work for a private, not-for-profit nursing home. Prepare a memo of 700-1,050 words for the senior partner.
To expand your business and continue successfully you must consider employing non-CPAs. Economic and Ethical Issues of Pricing All CPAs and CPA firms have a vested interested in ethics but how do they keep those ethics and professional codes of conduct while growing their business? How do they add value to their services during these economic times? This paper explores the idea of changing from an hourly billing system to a fixed fee pricing structure in order to grow and thrive, the ethical challenges of hiring non certified accountants and personnel and the professional
Reichart is the assigned project manager for a computer program. Functional managers are charging direct labor time to his project but actually working on their own project with no relation to the Trophy project. This caused over cost in budget. When Reichart complained of this and tried to get support from upper management/corporate they told him not to poke his nose in the functional manager’s business. As time went on so did the project
This would be important for accounts receivable - money that is owed by a customer for products/services. Representing a company in small claims court requires one to be familiar with the law and how it relates to accounting practices. In the Mack v. Edenwold Fertilizer Services Ltd. case, if Mack had a knowledgeable accountant that was familiar with the law, he may have been advised not to sue as the illegality of the situation would have resulted in a loss. In turn, this advise would have saved Mack both time and
Operating Budgets Paper Arin Lawson February 23, 2015 SEC/370 “A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it” William Feather Operating budgeting helps to establish and achieve the costs and revenue to run your business. When having a budget plan it helps you follow a plan to control your day to day income for your business. There are two poplar budgeting strategy’s that are used by many companies; Incremental budgeting and Zero-based budgeting. There are also pros and cons to these budgeting strategies. Incremental budgeting is when you take last year’s budget and add more or less to it depending on what you’re looking to do with your budget for the year.
Ethical Concerns Valdez (2014) advises, “Loyalty programs that reward decision makers may run into ethical issues when the decision maker is separate from the payer.” (para. 4) Frequent shopper programs must avoid kickbacks of any sort. If a customer is being rewarded twice, from a business and personal aspect, this can be considered a kickback. It is important to list the personal shopper depending if they are shopping for their business or employer versus personal use. Information Security
Financial Analysis A company’s strengths and weaknesses are better understood by their financial statements such as Income Statement, Cash Flow statement, and Balance sheet. As Financial consultants, our goal is to help CanGo understand their financial statements and where CanGo needs to improve to gain the competitive edge in the market. Every company needs to understand their own financials before analyzing the market or industry. After analyzing CanGo’s efficiency ratios, we found them to be very un-attractive for investors. For example, CanGo has a very high receivables turnover rate.
Business Resources – D3 Possible causes of the cash flow problems Cash flow problems are a major cause of insolvency. Cash flow planning involves making sure that a business generates enough cash at the right time to meet pressing liabilities. A cash flow forecast is really useful for a business as it helps them to identify their inflows and outflows, however if it is not manages properly it may causes some problems which may affect the business and the way this is performing. Owner’s drawing Owner’s drawing is when the owner of the business takes money out of the business for its personal use. In our case study, the owner for Yo Retro has taken different amounts of money out of the business from January to June, however in the next six
The partners should be of like mind and have a contract that states the percentage of profits, losses, debts and day to day duties that each partner is responsible for. The contract should also state what happens if one of the partners dies or retires. In a partnership you are legally responsible for your partner's actions and can be held labile for these actions. Partnerships report their earnings, losses and deduction for the business operations, but the business itself doesn't pay taxes. The business "passes through" it's earnings or losses to its partners.
If John decides that his co-worker has the right to know the pending lay-off, he may be using the virtue of caring or empathy to justify his action. He will have chosen loyalty to his co-worker over loyalty to his employer. However, since confidentiality and trustworthiness are important principles for accountants, choosing loyalty to his co-worker over his employer could limit his career. (14a) The Cost/benefit analysis of this question was actually considered by tobacco companies and that cost/benefit analysis of tobacco taxation is still being done. Three steps of cost benefit analysis are critical: listing costs and benefits, creating dollar estimates for each cost and benefit, and