Accounting Essays

Pay As You Earn (PAYE) System: Advantages and Disadvantages
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Apr 2018
Introduction: PAYE (Pay as you earn) was first introduced in year 1944. This is a system used by HMRC (HM Revenue & Customs) to collect Income Tax and NICs (National Insurance contributions) from employeesR...

Auditing Standards: Objectives and Importance
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Apr 2018
Introduction: Introduction The regulatory environment makes it mandatory that organizations such as limited liability companies must be audited by an independent external auditor qualified under the regulations of ...

Budget and Account Management of Restaurant | Case Study
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Apr 2018
Introduction: Traditions Ltd   Question One. Marginal costing, Comparison between Traditions Ltd Marginal costing for all departments and without the restaurant department; Without the restaurant, the store is pro...

Activity-based Costing: Advantages and Disadvantages
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Apr 2018
Introduction: Activity-based costing is an information system, that assigning resource of cost to products or services based on the activity consume. The Economist, June 29th 2009, Activity-Based costing Thus, ABC ...

Role of the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI)
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Apr 2018
Introduction: The Banking Industry was once a simple and reliable business that took deposits from investors at a lower interest rate and loaned it out to borrowers at a higher rate. However deregulation and techno...

Historical Cost Accounting: Criticisms and Alternatives
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Apr 2018
Introduction: Introduction Accounting is a measurement and communication of financial information about economic activities to interested persons. [1] The primary role of accounting is to provide an effective mea...

The Importance, Benefits and Issues of Budgeting
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Apr 2018
Introduction: Introduction This report is aimed to evaluate the importance of budgeting, analysis the benefits and problems that brought by budgeting and also discusses the behavioral aspects of budgeting. A budget...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Mauritius
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Apr 2018
Introduction: CSR is not so new in the history of Mauritius. A Mauritian company’s engagement in CSR initiatives dates back to 20 years ago, which took place at varying points in time. Some 25% of companies ...

Costing and Budgeting Case Study
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Apr 2018
Introduction: Accounting is a key success of a business, but the word accounting is more sophisticated. Almost every business, before dealing any project or any other important function, should design an appropriat...

International Accounting Standards (IAS) 37 Requirements
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Apr 2018
Introduction: Introduction Since IAS 37 is published, companies obeying by international standards can solve the difficulty of how to recognize and measure provision, contingent liability and contingent asset. It p...

The background and role of inventory in accounting
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Oct 2017
Introduction: Introduction International accounting standard No.2 (IAS2) “Inventory” gives the rules which should be followed during the recording and presentation of inventory. Inventory refers to good...

Disadvantages of IFRS for SMEs
Example essay. Last modified: 21st Jul 2017
Introduction: International Financing Reporting can be referred to as a set of accounting standards developed by the International Accounting Standards Board which is applied when preparing the Financial Statement ...

Benefits of using Cost Volume Profit analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Dec 2016
Introduction: Cost Volume Profit Analysis Table of Contents Introduction CVP analysis and decision making Relationship between revenues, costs, profits and volume Fixed vs. variable costs Break even analysis: Marg...

Costing methods, variance analysis and continuous improvement
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Dec 2016
Introduction: Costing Methods Assignment 1 – Cost Accounting DBSM703 – Business Financial Principles and Techniques 13 November 2014 Marginal Costing and Absorption Costing (Questions 1&2) Definition.Mar...

management accounting assignment
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Oct 2016
Introduction: 1. Activity: General ledger department reconciles and updates the general ledgers. Objective: The main purpose of having reconciliation in an organization is to ensure that the overall accuracy, comp...

Importance and role of accounting
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Oct 2016
Introduction: Accounting 601 assignment Accounting is the management of money and money is an important part of that business. Accounting is mainly preparation of financial statement and involve with transaction,...

Corporation tax and tax avoidance essay
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Oct 2016
Introduction: After the financial crises, the public has started to raise their attentions to the tax avoidance of some of the Global firms, such as Starbucks, Google and Amazon. These companies have a huge busine...

Capital budgeting techniques: Sensitivity and Scenario analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Oct 2016
Introduction: Graphically show and explain the following terms, how you could link them to capital budgeting techniques in your decision making (1000 words) Sensitivity analysis Scenario analysis Sensitivity Ana...

A comparison between US GAAP and German HGB
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Oct 2016
Introduction: A comparison between US GAAP and German HGB By January 2014 Supervisor: PERMISSION TO STORE RESEARCH PAPER IN LIBRARY AND MAKE AVAILABLE FOR USE I, Claudiu Ghiuzan, do hereby irrevocably consent to ...

The Usefulness Of Financial Statements To Stakeholders
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Jun 2016
Introduction: Introduction: Finance for managers is very important subject for businesses. All stakeholders must have to know about it. Because it helps their businesses to run properly and make profit. Finance for...

A Definition of Audit Independence
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Independence is fundamentally an attitude of mind for exercise of professional judgment and defined as an abstract concept that is easily subject to misinterpretation. Quality of integrity, objectivit...

Examining major problems caused by worldwide accounting diversity
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Multinational corporations have been contributors to worldwide accounting problems as they have made or contributed to changes in which different countries have been using their accounting principles ...

Unethical issues of AIG
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Company history          American International Group, Inc is a company whose operation began back in 1919. It was established back then by Cornelius Vander Starr as an insurance ...

Evaluating the financial performance of Deloitte LLP
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: All of the research topics are appealing although challenging but it was apparent that I have to choose the topic that meets the research requirements such as accessibility and quality of information ...

Accounting Theory And History Accounting Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Accounting has evolved since it was first developed and has continued to evolve. The aim of this essay is to explore and discuss why accounting, both financial and management has changed over the last...