Academic papers on Accounting & Personal Finance

Cost and Benefit in Business Accounting
This 6 page paper examines the terms cost and benefit in the business context defining what they mean, how they may be interpreted and applied in consideration of creating profit. The paper looks at different ways of accounting or measuring cost and...
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Arthur Laffer: Economic Theorist
A 4 page review of the life and theories of Arthur "Art" Laffer. This paper illustrates the various application of Laffer's so-called Laffer curve. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Microeconomic Considerations at Wilkerson Smokers
A 6 page paper discussing microeconomic points affecting the business of a manufacturer of smoker grills. The paper answers specific questions regarding fixed and variable costs; production scheduling; and competitive position in the market...
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Does Audit Reduce Bias in Financial Reporting?
A 6 page paper seeking to answer the question of the title. Bias in financial reporting was documented more than 100 years ago, and it has been an ongoing problem since that time. Auditing is thought to reduce that bias, but does it have its full...
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Allocating Costs for Goal Congruence
A 4 page paper discussing allocation of general costs and how what is intended to be a reward can instead become a penalty. Creative Consumer Consultants (CCC) is a corporate consulting firm with offices in New York, Chicago, Paris and Little Rock...
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Considering Activity-Based Costing
A 3 page paper discussing the differences that allocating costs in proportion with the processes that create them can cause in the quality of cost and profit information. Part 1 provides results with allocated and unallocated costs; Part 2...
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Multiple Regression Analysis and Trying to Predict the Movement of a Stock Price
This 5 age paper is written in two parts. The first part of the paper looks at how and when a multiple regression analysis can be used, if it can be performed with only two data sets and what would need to be added into the equation to undertaken a...
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Amerada Hess Analysis
This 13 page paper is an analysis of the US energy company Amerada Hess. The first part of the paper undertakes an in depth financial analysis of the company which is followed by a SWOT analysis and consideration of the competitive structure of the...
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Harley-Davidson at 104
A 6 page paper discussing the operation and financial management of the venerable motorcycle company. At the end of 2005, the company that flirted with bankruptcy only a few years ago currently enjoys a market share of well over 50% and a 16.93%...
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Beyond Growth: Daly and Girard and a Steady-State Economy
This 3 page paper gives an outline of Herman Daly's book "Beyond Growth" and a brief discussion of it, and speculates on what Rene Girard would think about it. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Korea Stock Exchange, 1998 (Harvard Business Case Study Analysis)
This 3 page paper examines the Harvard Business School case study and provides suggestions. The Korean economy, and how it runs, is central to the discussion. No bibliography.
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Risk Assessment in Capital Budgeting Proposal
This 11 page paper is a proposal for assessing the use of risk assessment tools in capital budgeting, assessing the results with the return on assets ratio. The paper includes 10 power point slides for a presentation and shows why the research...
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Oxfam; Budget Projection and Memo
This 3 page paper takes the figures from the 2003 and 2004 annual reports of a non profit making organization; Oxfam America and uses them to make projection for a 2005 budget of income expenses and the resulting net assets. The paper also includes...
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Economic Inequality
This 7 page paper considers the problem of economic inequality in American society, what the dominant organizational form is, what the moral consequences are, and what alternatives exist. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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The Economy of Dubai
This 5 page paper examines an article on the Dubai economy which indicates a high level of growth and an optimistic view for the future. The paper then critiques this article and considers the potential problem of inflation. The bibliography cites 5...
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