Delineating Related Intel Pentium Accounting Research Questions
Sami Mansour
Walden University
Current Trends in Accounting ACCT6140Standards
May 17, 2015

Delineating Related Intel Pentium Accounting Research Questions
Introduction
The purpose of this paper is to define research questions (below) relating to "Accounting for the Intel Pentium Chip Flaw" (Hawkins, Miller & Narayanan, 2009). The questions are as follows; (A3.1) If you were an accountant for Intel, what specifically would be the relevant accounting research question with respect to the Intel Pentium chip flaw? (A3.2) What constrains Intel's decisions about how to account for the Pentium chip flaw? (A3.3) What do you need to know, estimate, and assume to answer the
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