Career In Accounting Essay

It has been relatively known that a society cannot prosper without the careful consideration of the past when making decisions for the future and Andrew Carnegie strongly believed that. “Because Andrew’s lifetime spanned two worlds, before and after mechanization, his actions continuously manifested an ambivalence rooted in his double exposure to the old world among the cottages, glens, and firths of Scotland and the new world among of smoky factories in America.” (Andrew Carnegie 13) Most of…

Throughout my accounting studies so far, whistleblowers have been praised for their heroic actions that lead to the collapse of a giant corporation. However, the heroic actions and collapse are the seldom times that whistleblower protection laws work. In C. Fred Alford’s book: Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power, Mr. Alford explores the corporation and systems irrational behavior that makes whistleblowers lose faith in humanity and the justice system. Throughout the book, Mr.…

Introduction Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are widely used by companies around the world. When implemented successfully, it has countless advantages and benefits such as improved productivity, decreased costs, increases efficiencies, and streamlined processes. Although ERP systems offer many advantages, if not implemented correctly, it can cost a company a lot of money as well as years of struggle. An ERP system must fit well with the businesses existing processes and operation. It…

Sherron Watkins blew the whistle on Enron in 2001 by sending a memo to Kenneth Lay, the founder of Enron, giving caution she knew the company was at a great risk of finding themselves in a dilemma. The dilemma would be the product of many financial accounting scandals. Enron is a company that buys and sales energy from different companies and according to Patrick Rogers, was worth $74 billion in 2001, and was developed by Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling in 1985. Enron would be a successful…

Page 1 of 4 General Findings After completing CVP analysis, breaking down the variable and fixed cost structure, and understanding the special order, I believe that going to a fixed cost structure would be in the best interest of the company. Outlined are the risk associated with this change, the probability of reaching the projected net income, and the results of the special order. Comparison of Cost Structure As suggested, Wall Street Burger Shoppe used the fixed cost structure in the months…

gws_rd=ssl#q=common+financial+statement+fraud+schemes+by+jamal+ahmad Cernusca, L. (2011). Ethics in accounting: The consequences of the Enron scandal. Agricultural Management, 13(3), 35-42. Retrieved from http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=2&sid=59e976ea-caa3-4b98-a718-e29420909cda%40sessionmgr114&hid=120&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=67096081&db=bth Giroux, G. (2008). What went wrong? Accounting fraud and lessons from the recent scandals. Social Research, 75(4), 1205-1238.…

The price would like to control within the reasonable level, it should be properly allocate the cost of each products. Activity Based Costing may help to measure the ‘real’ cost of product and the further price making which is more nearly to the reasonable price. Second, there are wider ranges of products. Choi Fung Hong was developing and produces a lot of types of product and those products may classify to different product lines such as H2O Hydrating product. It may helpful on the comparing…

The purpose of this paper is to incorporate biblical principles to this course of Managerial Accounting. Being a Managerial Accountant requires a person to be responsible for other’s money in which God has appointed and entrusted that person. Every part of the accounting process requires the appointed person to be a good steward. In biblical times, Jesus told this parable in Luke 16:1-2, “There was once a rich man who had a servant who managed his property. The rich man was told that the…

Excel Not a Reliable Software for Accounting In 1,987 working with my father at his office, it was available pencils, papers and a printing calculator for accounting and that took forever. Then computers were implemented, and Excel made accounting easy. Still Excel needs for the user to create spreadsheets required for accounting. Accounting had evolved in the last years from manual to computerized systems. The use of Excel, which is considered a manual system in business, is not reliable for…

The documentary “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” deals with “one of the most America's largest corporate bankruptcy”, as it reports the documentary itself. In fact, few years before the bankrupt, Enron was the 7th largest corporation in the USA that took 16 years to go from 10 billion assets to approximately 65 billion, but in only 24 days it went bankrupt. The movie describes and analyses how the company grew and then collapsed quickly and surrounded by a gigantic scandal that can be seen…