FI 8320, Spring 2005 Cases and Readings in Corporate Finance [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] Instructor Professor David C. Nachman Office: RCB 1239 Phone: 651-1696 email: dnachman@gsu.edu Office Hours: W 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, or by appointment Prerequisites FI 8000 CSP: 1, 2, 6 Course Description This course focuses on financial policy-making through case analyses, contemporary readings from the professional literature, and problem solving. The emphasis in the course is on investment
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Unit 1 Introduction to Financial Accounting Learning Outcome After reading this unit, you will be able to: • Explain succinctly financial accounting concepts • Elucidate on different principles of financial accounting • Explicate the importance and scope of financial accounting • Understand Generally Accepted Accounting Principles(GAAP) • Identify limitations of Financial Accounting Time Required to Complete the unit 1. 2. 1st Reading: It will need 3 Hrs for reading a unit 2nd Reading
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KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ISD 556: management information systems ASSIGNMENT: CASE STUDY: MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND E-COMMERCE COURSEWORK (30%) NAME INDEX NUMBER EVELYN BOAITEY PG7600212 PETER BONSU PG8373512 KELVIN KYEI TUFFOUR PG7605212 DATE: 2ND APRIL, 2013 A. All businesses share one common asset, regardless of the type of business. It does not matter if they
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Managerial Economics MBA First Year Paper No. 2 School of Distance Education Bharathiar University, Coimbatore - 641 046
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health club industry. Since 1962, the company had developed into a large and nationwide commercial operator of fitness centers in the Unite States. But with the increasingly fierce market competition and the internal management problems such as poor accounting standards, the stock price of the company collapsed. Some shareholders had lost faith in the company. A major shareholder of the company was urging the CEO to sell the company. So the company faced two alternatives, one alternative was to sell the
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controversial subject. Wines and Ferguson (1993) and McCarthy and Schneider (1995) documented the fact that the controversy regarding the accounting for goodwill in US and abroad had existed since the early 1900s. The controversy focused on the recognition of goodwill as an asset, on its treatment and its link to the income statement. A search of the accounting literature yields two definitions of goodwill. One is that goodwill is the excess of purchase price over fair value of the net assets acquired
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Financial Accounting Theory Chapter 8 – Summary The Positive Theory of Accounting 1. Outline In the text, Scott defines Positive accounting theory (PAT) as: “concerned with predicting such actions as the choices of accounting policies by firms and how firms will respond to proposed new accounting standards.” (263) PAT uses theory to predict the choices that management will make regarding their choice of accounting policies. This theory is introduced as a way to merge efficient securities
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Managerial Economics Case Number 6 Topic: Elasticity of Demand Objective: a) To apply the concept of elasticity of demand b) To correlate elasticity with decision making University fees – part I President Jones of Indian Institute of Business Economics (IIBE) is concerned about the financial state of his institution. Last year there was a loss of Rs.1.5 million and the trustees are getting restless. Currently there are 1000 full-time students, 700 of whom are degree students from their country
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2011. Pp. 1-15 Cosmetic Accounting Practices in Developing Countries: Bangladesh Perspectives Asif Mahbub Karim 1 , Rehana Fowzia 2 and Md. Mamunur Rashid Cosmetic accounting is a process whereby accountants use their knowledge of accounting rules to manipulate the figures reported in the accounts of a business. This study expresses the views of External Auditors, Internal Auditors, and the Accountants on causes, techniques, effects and solution for Cosmetic Accounting. To achieve these purposes
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to reduce this potential to an acceptable level of risk. If the auditor assumed this risk was zero to start with the auditor would not need to provide evidence that the possibility is low, and that contradicts the reason users demand an audit. 3-2 No, the auditor cannot detect deception without being skeptical. A non-skeptical auditor on finding evidence of fraud may not treat it with the significance it deserves. The rule that suspicious transactions or evidence of management deceit should
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