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An explanation of treasury stock.
An article on recognizing revenue.
Understanding pro forma earnings.
Accounting and disclosure issues from the SEC.
Capitalizing versus expensing costs.
Fixed asset depreciation information.
Fixed asset accounting information.
Petty cash accounting.
The Wikipedia site on inventory.
Accounts receivable accounting.
Accounts payable accounting.
Accounts payable processes, procedures, and policies.
Management Accounting Information Center

An Internet Site For Researching Management, Accounting, and Business  Information
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Answers by the SEC to revenue recognition questions.
Websites linked to from this page hopefully will provide useful information for keeping a company’s accounting records more correctly.
A Management Accounting Information Center article “Using the Internet for Finding Information to Improve Accounting Processes, Such as the Monthly Close” attempts to show how the Internet can be useful in benchmarking accounting and other business processes.  Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article.
A Management Accounting Information Center article “Internal Control and Auditing Information On the Internet” tries to show how the Internet can be useful to accountants involved in internal control processes and auditing. Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article.
Accounts receivable and payable.
Inventory, petty cash.
Fixed assets.
Financial statements and disclosures.
Revenue recognition.
Other accounting procedures and explanations.
Accounting and bookkeeping references.
A “Principles of Accounting” textbook, online.
         A Yahoo Pipes Search Product
    Upcoming Accounting-Related Events


Enter an accounting-related topic and this Yahoo Pipes search product will filter approximately 15 RSS feeds for upcoming conferences, trade shows and fairs, courses, exhibits, seminars, and webinars.

Topics might be, besides accounting, tax, audit, and management.

The RSS feeds, from accounting associations and other organizations, are transmitted for the purpose of identifying future events.  Yahoo, Live Search, and Google news feeds are also included.

Click
here to conduct a search.

Right clicking should lead you to a new window in which to conduct the search.
         A Yahoo Pipes Search Product
Accounting News from RSS Feeds and Blogs


Use this Yahoo Pipes search product to find recent accounting  news. The source of this news is several RSS feeds and blogs that originate from accounting-interested websites. Enter the search terms in the box, and then click "Run Pipe". The results have appeared at the websites in the last 360 days.

Click
here to conduct a search.

Right clicking should lead you to a new window in which to conduct the search.
AccountingCoach.com, with answers to many accounting questions.
      A Yahoo Pipes Search Product
     Search for Accounting Standards

This Yahoo Pipes Search Product will search the world wide web for accounting standards on the type of business, e.g. transportation or retail, the operation situation, e.g. consignment sales, and any other terms you enter for which you seek accounting standards.     

This Yahoo Pipes Search Product is designed to use several strings of search terms related to accounting standards.   Added to each string are the keywords you enter. The strings are used simultaneously in the search and then the results are fed into the pipe and filtered. Hopefully, this Yahoo Pipes Search Product identifies useful information that would have taken several hours to find by manually searching using Yahoo Search.

Click
here to go this Yahoo Pipes product.

Right clicking should lead to being able to open in a new window.
Accounting guidance for small and medium size private companies (PDF file).
A Management Accounting Information Center article “Accounting Departments Use of Yahoo Pipes (2010)” attempts to show how the Internet and mashups can be useful to the accounting department.  Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article.
A Management Accounting Information Center article “Using Yahoo Pipes to Show Upcoming Training, Exhibits, and Trade Show Events (2009)” attempts to show how the Internet  and mashups can be useful for training company personnel.  Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article.
A Management Accounting Information Center article “Using Yahoo Pipes to Filter Podcast Feeds to Find Podcasts on Specific Topics” attempts to show how the Internet and mashups can be used to find podcasts useful to company personnel.  Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article.
A Management Accounting Information Center article “RSS Feed Use by Accountants and the Accounting Department (2006)” attempts to show how the Internet and RSS feeds can be used by accountants.  Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article.
Public Company Accounting Problems
The bar chart below was created using Google’s Chart Tools.

The chart shows an average of the frequency of problems that public companies had from 1997 to 2005.    These accounting problems led the public companies to restate (re-issue) their financial statements.   The data in the chart come from two surveys conducted by the United States Government Accounting Office.

The chart provides an indication of where accounting problems most often occur.

More details on the surveys conducted by the US Government Accounting Office can be found by clicking
here. (PDF file).