… of two natural gas companies intent on creating the first nationwide natural gas pipeline. Enron wanted to take advantage of the newly deregulated markets for energy and become a market middleman for energy. They wanted to accomplish this by bringing…

… Risk, plays a large part in the world of Auditing. Audit risk, represents risk to an auditor or an audit firm, as the risk of paying damages to a client may arise out of negligent work when trying to show a true and fair view of a set of company…

… Objectives of Budgeting Through budgeting organisations can provide information for strategic planning and control, these are the two main objectives of the budgetary control system. Management and management accountants must work together and…

… planning and decision making by clarifying the effects of change in output and selling price on profitability. It illustrates the relationship between output, sales revenue, variable and fixed costs and profit. A business breaks even when contribution…

… costing includes only the variable costs of making the product. The variable costs include direct material, direct labour and variable overheads. Variable costs per unit approximate the marginal cost of making another unit of a product. Selling…

… are vital components of an effective cost accounting system. Standard Costs are predetermined costs that are usually expressed on a per-unit basis; they are target costs, costs that should be attained. One can think of a standard as a budget…

… an understandable concern about the quality of corporate governance in the U.K after the Maxwell scandal in 1991. A report (Orr, 1992) suggested, "Britain's auditors and corporate chiefs faced a collapse of Enronian proportions" a similar argument was…

… as an amalgamation of two or more firms to form one new company RECENT MERGERS: Norwich Union+ CGU Walmart+Asda Natwest+Bank of Scotland AOL+Time Warner Wellcome+ BeechamKline TRENDS: Controlled in the UK since 1965 Monopolies and…

… play quite an important role in scandals such as Enron, Xerox, and Worldcom, as all they all deal with the financial accounts not showing a true and fair view the company. Hence it is the role of accountants to prepare and check the financial statements.…

… following countries U.K, U.S.A and China. An analysis of these different accounting systems will be conducted on issues such as the growth and background, social, economic and fiscal pressures that have led to each nations current characteristics.…