A budget is a financial plan that outlines the projected revenues and expenses for a specific period of time. It serves as a tool for organizations and individuals to manage their finances effectively. In this essay, we will explore the five key functions of a...
Budgeting is a crucial financial tool that individuals and organizations use to plan and control their spending. It involves setting financial goals, estimating income and expenses, and creating a plan to allocate resources effectively. In this essay, we will explore the importance of budgeting and...
The United States’ financial system is a complex and intricate web that influences the lives of every American. At the center of this system stands the Federal Reserve, often referred to as the Fed. The Federal Reserve plays a pivotal role in shaping the country’s...
Economics, at its core, revolves around the fundamental concept of scarcity – the idea that resources are limited while human wants and needs are infinite. In navigating this reality, individuals, businesses, and societies are constantly faced with the challenge of making choices. These choices come...
TeamMate Analytics The data analytics program TeamMate Analytics is an auditing software tool designed to streamline effective and efficient internal and external audits. TeamMate Analytics software is used in over 70 countries across the globe and serves more than 100,000 auditors and 2,500 organizations ranging...
Waging war is very expensive and costly. As Sun Tzu notes in his book, In the operations of war, where there are in the field a thousand swift chariots, as many heavy chariots, and a hundred thousand mail-clad soldiers, with provisions enough to carry them...
The three fiscal policies in the European Union are: Institutional Arrangements, Excessive Deficit Procedure and the Stability and Growth Pact. For the institutional arrangements these are put in place in order for EU member states to establish sound fiscal policies and has been agreed upon...
Analysis and Control of Production Cost Introduction The cost incurred by the company is the production cost that is a combination of labor, raw materials, and other additional expenses. Costs provide an overview of the total construction expenditure (Jstor, 2015 p. 436). Cost planning techniques...
Introduction Tide, Old Spice, Crest, Ivory, Swiffer. The chances are that most consumers in the United States and the rest of the Western world have heard of these brands, and associate them with specific types of products. Procter & Gamble is one of the leading...
CBA is the process of quantifying benefits and costs of a project, decision or a program in a given period (Brealey et al., 2012). The CBA analysis estimates the NPV (net present value) of the project by invest and returns discounting. Inclusively, the Rate of...
Cost benefit analysis is an important tool for policy makers since it helps them to make fair decision of taking up large scale project which will incur capital expenditure which is less than its benefit. It usually evaluate the total expenditure can incur in carrying...
Introduction The Bureau of Labour Statistics reports that explosions and fires were responsible for about 3 percent of workplace fatalities in the United States. Uncontrolled fires impose significant impacts on organizations every year by causing damage to property, loss of life, injury and lost trust...
The board of Tetra Pak Inc has recently decided that in order to comply with principles set forth by GAAP that it is in the best interest of the company to hire external auditors to conduct an annual audit. The purpose of this audit is...
Introduction The audit committees in the recent past have become a mechanism that is common for corporate governance internationally. Corporate governance is the process in which the director of a particular company ensures that the company is running properly. It strictly entails monitoring the senior...
On the ACA Impact on the Federal Budget Deficit, the Author Dana Smith compiles not only the CBO’s referendum on the topic of deficit/surplus implications, but also other NGO’s, offering largely a positive and inversely normative views on the ACA implications. Within the compilation, the...
The New Partnership Audit Rules under The Bipartisan Budget Act (BBA) of 2015The Bipartisan Budget Act (BBA) of 2015 was signed into law in November 2015. This new law marks a major change in how the IRS will approach a partnership audit moving forward. This...
Accounting is a specialized language of business which helps to understand economic activities. It is an act of orderly, keeping the records of the daily monetary transactions of the business, the transactions are then classified into various groups followed by summarizing in a way that...
External Audit James Wilkinson (2013) defines external audit as “a company audit which is performed by a party which is not a department or employed by a business to be audited”. External audit is also explained as an obedient or non-obedient audit realized by a...
I would not recommend the use of single company-wide cost of capital in all ExxonMobil (XOM) business units. This is because, different business units encounter distinctive risk levels and cost structures, hence, the ExxonMobil wide cost of capital must be modified for every unit, with...