Week 1 Discussion ACC1002

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Week 1 Discussion ACC1002 – Accounting 2 SU02 Courtney McCollum January 18, 2022 Amazon is a large online company that sells goods globally from individuals, businesses, and the companies own line of products. A firm like Amazon is bound to have multiple risk factors such as employing competent personnel, foreign exchange risks, operating risks, data loss or security breaches, and safeguarding the data and accounting system the company uses, retaining highly skilled key personnel, a loss of relationships with suppliers, inventory loss, legal and regulatory risks, etc... Amazon is safeguarding the assets and other systems daily by providing protection from hackers, theft, fraud, and other possible malicious intent as well as, in recent events, health factors to keep employees healthy and at work. Amazon does this by providing competent personnel such as management monitoring the company’s employees, having clear communication, and having clear expectations. One of the controls mentioned in the Amazon 2020 Annual Report would be safeguarding employees from the effects of Covid-19. To safeguard against Covid-19, Amazon has modified numerous process updates across their operations worldwide which include but are not limited to enhanced cleaning and physical distancing, personnel protective gear, disinfectant spraying, and temperature checks. “Depreciation and amortization is recorded on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the assets (generally the lesser of 40 years or the remaining life of the underlying building, three years prior to January 1, 2020 and four years subsequent to January 1 2020, five years for networking, ten years for heavy equipment, and three to ten years for other fulfillment equipment).” (Amazon, 2021) Bezos, J. P. (2021, February 2). Amazon 2020 Annual Report . 2020 Amazon Annual Report. Retrieved January 19, 2022, from https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_financials/2021/ar/Amazon-2020-Annual- Report.pdf
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