...Financial Statement Restatement Paper Abstract Restatement of the financials for a company can affect a company tremendously, when it comes to the validity of the company’s financial success. A study was conducted on the company IEC and its financials. For the fiscal year of 2012, the company announced their restatement of their financials. The aftermath of the announcement are discussed. Also, the financial standing, prior to the restatement, is examined. The effects the error had on the company’s shareholders were also determined. On May 1, 2013, IEC Electronics Corp, a public company in the NYSE, (NYSE MKT:IEC) announced that it has filed a current report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) which it claimed that its consolidate financial statements for the fiscal year, ending September 30, 2012, the quarterly periods during fiscal 2012, and the quarter ended December 28, 2012 were restated due to an error in accounting for work-in-process inventory (IEC To Reinstate Financial Statements, 2013). This error resulted in an aggregate understatement of cost of sales and an aggregate overstatement of gross profit during all such Restated Periods of approximately $2.2 million (IEC To Reinstate Financial Statements, 2013). According to the complaint, on May 1, 2013, IEC announced that it would be forced to restate its consolidated financial statements for its fiscal year ended September 30, 2012, the quarterly periods during fiscal year 2012, and...
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...Financial Statement Restatement Paper ACC537 April 13, 2015 Financial Statement Restatement Paper Most companies in the world use accounting principles to help them manage their cash flows that occur on a daily basis. It would be impossible for large companies to function without having an accounting department that measures all the data and ensures the company is profitable. Every transaction that occurs in the company needs to be recorded in an appropriate account to reflect everything that the company does. With so many transactions that occur on a daily basis, companies are prone to making an error in their accounting practices. Most of the time, the errors that occur are not discovered until a few years down the road. This can have a negative impact on the company because they are reporting incorrect data. In this paper, I will discuss Bridgestone Education Inc and the errors that they found in their accounting principles. I will analyze the accounting principles involved in the error; the effect of errors and changes on the financial statement, and the effect the errors have on the stockholders. In the year 2014, Bridgestone Education Inc released a statement claiming that they are looking into the accounting practices of the previous years because they found an error in the reports. According to “Street insider” (2014), “Management has concluded that there are material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting, as we did not maintain effective controls...
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...Financial Statement Restatement Paper Justina Kabanuk University of Phoenix ACC/537 Financial Accounting Steven Hall July 5, 2010 Financial Statement Restatement Paper Financial statement users depend on accurate financial statements from corporations to make proper decisions in regard to financial activities. In rare situations, financial statement users find that the information they had depended on for their decisions was not accurate. Companies required to restate their financial reports risk losing the trust and confidence of the financial statement users. Overstock.com is an example of a company that knows the effects of restating their finances all too well. Following is an overview of the issues that led to the most recent restatements of Overstock.com’s financial statements. Additionally discussed are the accounting principles involved, the effect of the errors and changes to the financial statements, and the effects on the company’s stockholders. In October 2008, Overstock.com publicly announced that it would be restating financial results for a five-and-a-half-year period. The needed revisions to Overstock.com’s Q1 2003 to Q2 2008 financial statements were estimated to reduce revenues by $12...
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...Restatement of the Company Zynga is a social gaming company. Many of their games are seen on social media networks such as Facebook, or Google+. On August 11, 2011, Zynga restated their first quarter revenue to reflect an accounting error in their initial IPO (initial public offering) registration. Their second quarter revenue report was increased by 3% over what was reported in first quarter. The error was due to a previous policy estimate (Primack, August, 2011). Accounting Principles Involved In the first quarter, the company’s previous policy was to apply most current estimates of paying players to current period sales. The accounting department did not adjust the deferred revenue balance for revised estimates of related sales in previous periods. Zynga determined the adjustment of the deferred revenue ending balance was necessary according to ASC 250. March 31, 2011 financial statements were restated because Zynga found they had an internal control material weakness of financial reporting for the first quarter (Primack, August, 2011). Effects of Errors and Changes on Statements The effect of the error/change on the restatement was to increase revenue by $7.5 million, as well as an increase to a provision of income taxes by $2.5 million for January, February, and March 2011. In addition, Zynga decreased deferred revenue by $7.5 million as of the end of March 2011 (Primack, August, 2011). Stockholders The shareholders involved in Zynga include: o Kleiner Perkins Caufield...
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...Overstock.com Restatement Overstock.com restates their financial statements for the last three quarters and their 2008 consolidated financial statements. According to Caleb Newquist, this will be the third restatement for the last three years. Sam Antar, who exposes Overstock.com financial misdeeds, states that Overstock lacked sufficient number of accounting professionals with the essential knowledge, experience and training to effectively account for and perform effective supervisory reviews of significant transactions that resulted in misapplications of GAAP. And that information technology program change and program development controls were inadequately designed to prevent changes in accounting systems which led to the failure to appropriately capture and accurately process data. Sam reported in his blog that Overstock.com violated Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in its accounting for recoveries of amounts due from under billed fulfillment partners. Overstock.com should have restated its financial reports to reflect income when it was actually earned from those fulfillment partners, less a reasonable estimate for uncollectable amounts. Overstock.com took income that should have been reported in prior reporting periods (Q3 2008 and before) and moved it to future reporting periods (Q4 2008 and later) to materially overstate its financial performance in those later reporting periods. Overstock.com increases its future financial performance. Operational...
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...Questions: Critical Legal Thinking Which of the following three legal theories did the Court apply in making its decision in this case? a. Ultramares doctrine b. Section 552 of the Restatement (Second) of Tort c. Foreseeability standard Before we can determine the doctrine used by the court, I would like to first dismiss the ones that do not apply. a. The court could not have used the Ultramares doctrine because GKCO was not in privity relationship with the bank or any other third parties. b. The use of Section 552 of the Restatement (Second) of Tort could have been the court’s only resort to make its decision. GKCO failed to include in the main sections of the financial report figures of great importance. Instead, GKCO included these figures in the report’s footnotes. c. The court could not have used the foreseeability standard. Because the accountant did not prepare the financial reports with the intention of informing Johnson Bank. In fact, GKCO did not know Brandon was intending to use the reports –already done by GKCO- to obtain a loan from Johnson Bank. The Court applied Section 552 of the Restatement (Second) of Tort. This doctrine says that the accountant is liable only for negligence to third parties who are members of a limited class of intended users of the client’s financial statements. (Cheeseman 806) Business Ethics Should GKCO have listed the lawsuit as a contingency rather than an asset? Yes. The lawsuit in process should have been listed as a contingency...
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...Accounting Changes Crystal Williamson Professor Gurey Acc499 April 24, 2012 1. Discuss the primary reason for the restatement and the impact to the financial results for the company you selected. Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company is best-known for its Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. As of July 2011[update], Apple has 357 retail stores in ten countries. It is the largest publicly traded company in the world my market capitalization. as well as the largest technology company in the world by revenue and profit. Although Fortune Magazine named them the most admired company in the United States in 2008, Apple has received widespread criticism for its environmental and business practices. Apple issued a statement stating that the Company would likely need to restate its historical financial statements to record non-cash charges for compensation expense relating to past stock option grants. The Company had not determined the amount of the charges, the resulting tax and accounting impact, or which periods may require restatement. Therefore, the Company filed a Form 8-K stating that the financial statements and all earnings issued by Apple relating to periods beginning on September 29, 2002 should therefore not be relied on. The investigation is still going on so Apple is delaying the filing of its Form 10-Q for the...
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...Restating Financial Reports” It is well known that over the past decade the amount of errors being discovered within the financial statements of publicly held companies has risen. One such error was announced by the internet sales company Overstock.com in early 2009. Due to an accounting error, partners of the company were under billed by $1.8 million dollars over the course of 2008. Overstock chose to record this entry incorrectly which falsely ballooned the company’s revenues; in turn, causing them to record an incorrect profit of $1.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2008. Had this entry been booked correctly and within the guidelines of the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), Overstock would have recorded its earnings correctly, showing a loss of $0.8 million. This shows us how important restating a financial statement correctly is so important. A financial statement restatement occurs when a company, either voluntarily or under prompting by its auditors or regulators, revises its public financial information that was previously reported. A financial statement also occurs when there needs to be a change in accounting principles or there is an error. The number of financial restatements by public companies has increased in the recent years due to increased scrutiny following the well-known accounting scandals at Enron and WorldCom, amount others. The restatement usually involves a completely new audit and in some cases may affect future financial statements...
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...Sintok, 06010 Kedah Malaysia. Abstract Cooking the books refers to fraudulent accounting activities undertaken by a business to falsify its financial statements. Thus, the objectives of this study are to investigate what the cooking-the-books activities carried out by businesses consist of, how they conduct them, and what the impact is on the business and its shareholders. The case study sample companies are two Malaysian companies that had received various awards from reputable third-party organizations. On the other hand, the activities undertaken in both companies have caused them to be labelled as Malaysian mini Enrons. We employ a qualitative research methodology as most prior research employs a quantitative methodology to investigate the determinant factors in businesses’ cooking-the-book activities. The result of the study shows that the managers have used their positions, prior experience, and regulatory loopholes in their activities. Furthermore, the financial report restatement and higher reported earnings are the early warning signals of their activities. As a result of this, the Malaysian Securities Commission has revised the corporate governance code, and among others incorporated the Audit Oversight Board, known in the US as the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Key words: Cooking the Books, Financial Statement Fraud, Earnings Management, Malaysia, Developing Countries 1. Introduction Belkaoui defined accounting as “the process of identifying, measuring...
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...Financial Statement Restatement Paper – Citizens First Bancorp, Inc. In 2009 Citizens First Bancorp, Inc. was forced to restate their earnings in the first and second quarters. The first quarter was revised due to “an accounting error on a $7.5 million impairment of its deferred tax valuation allowance” (Barba, R. October 20, 2009). The second quarter revision was a regulatory action by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which involved allegations of “inappropriate behavior at the company, including removing unfavorable appraisals from the loan files, in an attempt to avoid the recognition of additional loan losses” (Barba, R. October 20, 2009). Errors in accounting principles, along with the effects the restatements have on the company’s financials and stockholders are examined. The first quarter restatement involved the accounting error on deferred tax valuation. Citizens initially overstated their tax deferred asset allowance, and now “it must essentially write down the deferred tax asset, which it does by creating a “valuation allowance” on its balance sheet. That valuation allowance cuts into income reported to investors and can hit a portion of a bank’s regulatory capital, as well” (Alloway, T. November 4, 2010). The write down presented a problem for Citizens because of the financial crisis banks are being forced to hold more tier one capital. A good definition of Tier 1 capital is that it includes equity capital and disclosed reserves, where equity capital...
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...Sarbanes-Oxley In Week 1 we studied the general importance of the "rules of the game" (property rights and the rule of law) to a well-functioning economy. This week, we focused in more closely on the "rules of the game" regarding corporate governance and financial reporting. The Week 6 topic of fraudulent financial reporting relates to corporate top management that enriches itself and abandons its obligations to shareholders, employees, creditors, government, and the general public. The Agency Problem Economists call this failure of duty the problem of "agency." Top management is supposed to be the fiduciary (faithful agent) of the shareholders that own the enterprise. But a corrupt agent neglects fiduciary duty to the principal in favor of his/her own selfish interest. Lawyers refer to this same problem as a failure to perform “fiduciary duty” and a "conflict of interest." Ethicists see the problem as deviation from moral conduct. But, whatever terminology is used, the problem remains the same: how can the management agency be kept faithful to its fiduciary duty to the owners, and to the other stakeholders (employees, creditors, government, and the general public)? This is a fundamental and difficult problem. The founders of the United States confronted it in attempting to create a federal government that would be powerful enough to perform its functions, but not so powerful that it would become as oppressive to Americans as the English government the American Revolution...
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...Tech Data Corporation Restating jumal Statements Submitted To: Prof………….. Strategy Management Stayer University Date: May 1, 2013 Tech Data Corporation (TECD) headquartered in Clearwater, FL, is one of the world’s largest wholesale distributors of technology products. Its supreme logistics capabilities and value added services enable 120,000 resellers in more than 100 countries to efficiently and cost effectively support the diverse technology needs of end users. The company is ranked 109th on the Fortune 500. Tech Data Corporation was founded by Edward C. Raymund in 1974 and its initial charter was to market data processing supplies directly to end users of mini and mainframe computers. Later in 1983 Tech Data Corporation enlarge its goal and started servicing microcomputers resellers as a wholesale distributor. Today the company sold about $24 billion of IT products to more than 125,000 technology resellers in over 100 countries. On March 21, 2013 Tech Data Corporation announced that company will restate some or all of its previously issued quarterly and audited annual financial statements for the fiscal year 2011, 20012 and 2013 including its recently released earnings from March 4, 2013.. Tech Data Corporation announced to restate in the recommendation of management, audit committee of its Board of Directors and after discussion with the Company’s independent accountants, Ernst & Young LLP. Tech Data Corporation will look for a 15 day filing extension for...
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...Vincent Mokwenye ACCA 545- Financial Reporting Monday December 18, 2012 Memorandum- CPA Report MEMORANDUM Date: December10, 2012 To: Libby Grimes Re: CPA Report This memo is in response to the request for information from the CPA firm examining our subsidiary. The memo addresses information regarding the methodology used to determine deferred taxes, the various procedures used for reporting accounting changes and error corrections, and the rationale for establishing the subsidiary as a corporation. In addition it provides information on the professional responsibilities of Certified Public Accountants (CPA’s). Finally, a distinction is made between a financial audit and a financial review. The Methodology used to Determine Deferred Taxes It is common knowledge that companies report different amounts of income on their income statements and tax returns respectively. This difference is caused by the fact that taxable income is determined on the cash basis of accounting using the internal revenue service (IRS) code; whereas the pre-tax income reported on the income statement is determined on the accrual basis of accounting using generally accepted accounting principle (GAAP). This difference in accounting basis causes the differences in the amounts reported on the income statements and the tax returns. This temporary difference is responsible for deferred tax liability or asset that is recorded on a company’s balance sheet. Therefore, where the amount of taxes payable...
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...accurate and completed information to the company. But Dell Company is hardly to follow these rules for Dell company’s size. If company want follow these rules, the cost will be too high. B. Because there are a lot of transaction in Dell Company, Dell Company more likely to use GAAP rules. Because IFRS is more detailed then GAAP, Dell Company not requires tracing every transaction detail. C. The GAAP rule is more appropriate to investment manager. GAAP are imposed on company. Investors can get a minimum level of consistency in the financial statements, when they analyze the investment purpose of company. Therefor investors more trust GAAP. 3. Dell had to take this investigation before January 2007. It may minimize the cost. Because there is a deficiency in financial control over one year, the cost can’t be avoided. 4. The cost of the investigation and dollar amount of the restatements might worth their cost. Because this restatement help the manager to find the...
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...Financial Statement Insurance This is a proposal to increase the effectiveness of corporate governance in the post-Enron era through the implementation of financial statement insurance. This paper gives a brief history of the purpose of financial statements as well as the importance of external auditing of financial statements. It gives examples of the corporate governance failures of companies like Enron and WorldCom. It covers how and why these failures happened and reviews the grave consequences of the failures. It also takes a brief look at the laws that have been passed to prevent future failures, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley act of 2002. It shows how the new laws have been helpful but have not solved the problem. Finally, it shows how the implementation of financial statement insurance will greatly improve the accuracy of external auditing of a company’s financial statements. Purpose of financial statements The purpose of financial statements is to give an overall picture of the health and profitability of the business. This overall picture of the business provides information on a company’s financial position and performance. Financial statements are also necessary to show changes in a company’s financial position. Financial statements are used internally by managers, shareholders and employees to make good business and investment decisions. They are used externally by prospective investors, financial institutions, suppliers, customers, competitors, and governments...
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