This matters more and more because Japan is due to introduce market-value-based accounting this year meaning that unrealised securities losses will start being deducted from their capital.
Lay good ground work during the year in your accounting practices and your year end should take no time at all.
And the government introduced tougher accounting standards last year, which require big companies to produce consolidated accounts.
The only job offer Bruce Hertzke got coming out of a two-year accounting program in 1971 was to install plumbing in Winnebago motor homes.
An accounting change last year raised the liability of unused frequent-flier miles on company balance sheets and gave airlines more incentive to get miles off their books.
On January 18, 2013, CAT announced that an internal investigation at Siwei, the Chinese subsidiary of its recently acquired ERA Mining, revealed a deliberate, multi-year accounting misconduct.
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The introduction of stricter accounting standards this year means that banks will have to value equities at market, rather than historic, prices when they close their books next March.
Health spending (unlike that of gadgets and snack) happens to be highly concentrated, with the top 1 percent of spenders each year accounting for more than one quarter of all spending.
Labrador Retrievers got into the most trouble last year, accounting for nearly 14, 000 calls to the APCC.
More than 1500 Brazilians crossed international borders to find work last year, accounting for 13% of all transfers.
Huabao was one of several Chinese companies singled out by short sellers over the past year for accounting issues.
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Half of the 2 billion tons of coal China burns each year, accounting for two-thirds of the country's energy consumption, feeds industry.
This year, however, we estimate iPhone sales to grow at less than 45% for the full year despite accounting for what we think will be a strong Q4.
At the end of the emission accounting period (usually year-end) each entity with a compliance obligation will need to hold allowances that are at least the same in number as its actual emissions for the period.
Citing questions over the accounting, Forbes last year took Islamic Relief and Seattle-area Crista Ministries off its largest-charities list, which is assembled on the basis of the amount of private donations received in the latest fiscal year.
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Chinese stocks have been a tough sell in the U.S. after accusations of fraud and accounting irregularities cropped up last year.
And, in the new financial year, changed accounting rules will oblige banks to carry shares on their books at market value.
Moreover, Dell's disclosures, made earlier this month after a year-long accounting probe, made plain what investors had long expected: Dell isn't about to unravel, Enron-style.
Elan, which makes drugs to treat diseases such as Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis, has seen its share price plummet over 90% since the start of last year due to accounting concerns.
Banks are stuck with 40-year old branch accounting systems that process in overnight batch, said Schlesinger, who is based in the UK. The systems assume a customer goes through a branch.
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Jaspreet Singh Goomer, a 22-year-old accounting student, drove an hour and a half on Saturday from western Delhi to a Home Centre store on the city's eastern outskirts to buy furniture for his family's new house.
For the ING fund, the two largest at the end of last year--accounting for 8.6% of the portfolio--were units of Charter Communications, rated a lowly B2 by Moody's Investors Service, and Nextel, also a junk issuer with a Ba2 bank-loan rating.
That may be heartening for Joseph Nacchio , the former chief executive of Qwest Communications (nyse: Q - news - people ), who faces 42 counts of insider trading in a Denver federal court after a four-year investigation into accounting fraud at the telecommunications firm.
And while Dell's year-long accounting probe makes it plain that the company was struggling to meet investor's sky-high expectations, (see: "Dell: Cooked Books and Computers") the company remains in robust financial health, even as rivals Hewlett-Packard and Apple continue to tear off fresh chunks of the PC market at Dell's expense.
The trust forecasts that investment in clean technology in the U.K. will top 2 billion pounds a year by 2015, accounting for 4% of investment in clean technologies worldwide.
The IGT 2010 proxy goes on to say that the Audit Committee conducted a competitive process to select an independent registered public accounting firm for the 2011 fiscal year.
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Younger men also appear to be taking health risks with sex, with a 73% rise in cases of chlamydia between 1995 and 1999 with 16 to 24-year-old men accounting for almost half of the new cases.
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