Financials The four basic financial statements are; Balance Sheet, Income Statement, The Retained Earnings Statement and the Statement of Cash Flow. The Balance Sheet reports assets and claims to assets at a specific point in time. Claims to assets are subdivided into two categories: claims of creditors which are called liabilities and claims of owners which are called stockholders’ equity. The Income Statement shows how success or the failure of the company’s operations for a period of time
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AC 304 SEC PROJECT COMPANY: MICROSOFT GARY MELCONIAN AC 304 DR. FRANK BENSON SEC FILING REPORT: This SEC filing project is designed to aid you in understanding the content of published financial statements and to observe form and terminology. You are to refer to the financial statements of an agreed upon company contained in Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and respond to the following for the most current and immediately preceding
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1. Describe the methodology that both Reardon and Blake use to evaluate the TLG Project. Do you find it acceptable? They both use ROI (Return On Investment) method to evaluate the TLG Project. ROI is a way to consider the profits in relation to the invested capital. Reardon and Blake both take the factors such as inventories, new plants and equipment, and accounts receivable etc. into consideration before making the marketing decisions. It’s acceptable since these factors can directly affect the
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As a CFO of a multi-national company, which capital budgeting technique would be required for all major projects? Why? Why not the others? 1. Net Present Value (NPV) 2. Internal Rate of Return (IRR) 3. Modified Internal Rate of Return (MIRR) 4. Profitability Index (PI) 5. Regular Payback 6. Discounted Payback As NPV is the best criterion due to being directly related to maximizing my stock’s intrinsic value, I would choose this technique. As maximizing stock increases intrinsic value
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Financial Analysis, Competition Bikes – Summary Report Task 3 The following is an analysis regarding if Competition Bikes Incorporated should change its traditional costing method to activity based costing (ABC). This consideration is being given because the organization is changing its sales strategy in the San Diego plant to produce 9 Titanium bikes for every 5 CarbonLite bikes, and there are indications that manufacturing will experience a 10% increase due to new environmental regulations
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income statement and statement of cash flow. I would use the balance sheet because it shows the company financial position at a particular time. It’s a snap shot of the companies of a company assets and liabilities. The income statement shows the cash flow of the company financial resources such as cash on hand, net sales and gross profits. The income statement is a summary of the company financial performance for a given month or period. Finally the statement of cash flows shows the company financial
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Financial Statements Paper In the accounting world, there are four basic financial statements that are normally prepared by profit-making organizations. These are balance sheet, income statement, statement of retained earnings, and statement of cash flows. Each of these statements serves a very important purpose in keeping track of the finances for a company. The balance sheet pretty much shows a company’s current monetary position on an exact date. As the name suggests, it is a quick reference
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(a) | (b) | Account Name | Statement | Type of Account | Accounts payable | BS | CL | Accounts receivable | BS | CA | Accruals | BS | CL | Accumulated depreciation | BS | FA* | Administrative expense | IS | E | Buildings | BS | FA | Cash | BS | CA | Common stock (at par) | BS | SE | Cost of goods sold | IS | E | Depreciation | IS | E | Equipment | BS | FA | General expense | IS | E | Interest expense | IS | E | Inventories | BS | CA | Land | BS | FA | Long-term debt
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Introduction While United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP) are required throughout the United States, other countries utilize other methods of classifying their financial statement items. While the standards of accounting differ among many countries, there has recently been an effort to attain a universal set of standards under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). While this has not yet been achieved, multiple countries have made an effort to converge
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purchases schedule, and the wages schedule for August 2011. Here we are focusing just on projecting the month of August. Schedule 1: Sales Forecast Total sales = $92,000; Credit sales (40%) = $36,800; Cash sales (60%) = $55,200 Schedule 2: Cash Collections Cash sales = $55,200; Collection of July’s credit sales = $46,000; Total collections = $101,200 Purchases Schedule: Ending inventory at end of August is estimated as: Forecasted September sales = $80,000 times
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