A review of several articles from the “New York Times” on the subject of cost accounting.
This paper discusses various accounting topics through a review of six newspaper articles. The paper outlines the accountant’s role in an organization, provides an introduction to cost terms and purposes, and describes job costs and cost allocation. Performance measurement, compensation and multinational considerations are illustrated in this paper, as are the issues involved in inventory management and backflushing costing.
Key Company Assets Moving Offshore proclaims the title of this recent article from the business section of The New York Times. A casual observer might shrug, but a student of accounting must turn a closer eye to this proclamation that American companies have been rapidly shifting more of their most valuable assets to tax havens, where the companies pay little or no tax on profits. What is so striking about this technique is that instead of simply moving their headquarters offshore, companies are also placing patents on drugs or ownership of corporate logos offshore, thus putting these intangible assets into tax havens as well. (C3)”