Accounting for Managers
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Accounting for Managers
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Advanced Fraud
201 Factoring Here’s how factoring works. A factor (factoring company) buys customer accounts from the company, deducting a dis- count, usually 3% to 5% of the amount of the accounts.That discount is primarily to compensate the factor for assuming the risk of collecting the accounts.The factor may buy accounts with recourse, which means that it has the right to sell the accounts back to the company if it doesn’t collect from the customers within a certain time. If it buys accounts without recourse, the factor is responsible for collecting. Factoring Selling accounts receivable to a factoring company or a factor, at a discount for assuming the risk of col- lecting from the accounts. Also known as accounts receivable financing. Webster10.qxd 8/29/2003 10:23 AM Page 201 Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 10 ❏ Prepare for fraud. You and your coworkers may be honest, but there will always be people who try to deceive you for their gain. ❏ If you know the kinds of fraud people try, you are less like- ly to be affected. ❏ Sarbanes-Oxley increases requirements and responsibili- ties for public companies financial statements. These effects will probably trickle down to smaller companies as banks and insurance companies require similar documen- tation. ❏ Internal fraud threatens the life of the business. Know the most common types. ❏ External credit card fraud is a persistent risk for companies that accept them. ❏ Capital budgeting and finance are temptations for financial statement fraud. Accounting for Managers 202 Webster10.qxd 8/29/2003 10:23 AM Page 202 C ongratulations! You’ve reached the last chapter in this book and the first chapter in your new life as an Accounting Enhanced Manager TM . You will need that knowledge and a lot more in the next few years, because there is a tsunami of change coming to accounting rules, procedures, and systems. Much of what we have covered in this book looks at condi- tions as they currently exist. But this doesn’t mean that what you have learned from this book is obsolete. Far from it. My hope and expectation is that you’ve already had a chance to use information from this book to understand processes or inform decisions and you’ll continue to do so. Accounting skills, in addition to management skills, will make you more valuable to your company and increase your marketability. The whole field of accounting is changing rapidly and this knowledge will be overtaken in five to 10 years. Here are some of the things on the near horizon. Initiatives like JIT and ABC have pointed the way to analyzing work processes for their value-added component and seeing if steps can be eliminated, Download 3.03 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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