Accounting Statements Bethany Edings Acct/290 January 25, 2013 Doyle Jones University of Phoenix Accounting Statements In business finance there are four main statements. The financial statements are balance sheets, income, cash flow, and statement of retained earnings. Each statement shows specific information about a business’s financial history. A balance sheet shows a company its current debts and how much it has
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Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) for the City of San Francisco, CA are 2010-11. The independent auditor for San Francisco’s CAFR is Macia Gini & O’Connell LLP (MGO) located at 505 14th Street in Oakland, California. The auditor states that their audit was in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those statements require the planning and performing of the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material
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The SEC filed fraud charges against WorldCom the next day. WorldCom shares fell to less than to $1. In July 2002, WorldCom filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. Subsequently, former WorldCom chief financial officer Scott Sullivan and controller David Myers were arrested on securities fraud and conspiracy charges. Ebbers was indicted on federal charges in the accounting scandal. In March 2005, Ebbers was found guilty on all charges and was sentenced
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Excello Telecommunications Abstract This paper will explain the legality and ethicality of financial reporting as it pertains to the Excello Telecommunications case. Other topics that will be touched on will be reporting standards, SOX Act criteria, and alternatives for Excello. Excello Telecommunications Introduction Excello has a dilemma with end of year reporting and in meeting their earnings estimates in accordance to calculations at the beginning of the year. What the CFO wishes
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enough allow SPEs not to be consolidated into Enron’s Financial statement. Enron had to transfer additional shares to SPE, Rapto, in a futile effort to support. Enron recognized revenues due to increase in stock price on stocks held in SPE. Anderson accounting firm formulated a mechanism to record gains in stock price but not losses and US GAAP equity method was misused. Mark to Market (MTM) accounting applied to no active market for financial instruments but used estimates regarding fair value
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standards. The European Union took a momentous step in 1999 by adopting the Euro as the standard currency for its 27 member states. It currently has the highest total gross domestic product (GDP) of any economy and is a member of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) which is viewed as the standard for the global economy. The United States has also become committed to integrating into a global set of standards, vowing to join the IFRS which already oversees 12,000 companies in 100 countries
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Proposed Accounting Standards Update Financial Instruments: Credit Losses ( Subtopic 825-15) Issued December 20th 2012 ACCT 6003: Financial Accounting Theory Professor Bill Dawson Completed by: Rich Allen, Jordan Keuken, Karen Vander Vloet, Lillian Cuevas Rosales June 28th, 2013 Executive Summary The recent global economic crisis of 2008 created a glaring need for changes in accounting standards in US GAAP. One of the many issues that contributed to the recession was accounting
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Course Goals and Learning Objectives: The goal of this course is to provide students a practitioner’s perspective on financial statement analysis. The course will emphasize thinking beyond the text and will focus to how to critically examine financial statement information and management representations. The course will primarily focus on financial statements prepared in accordance with US GAAP, however differences between US GAAP and IFRS will be outlined and examined. The class will be taught using
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It is because she is the person who signs the commitment letter. (c) If she resigns immediately, it might affect her future career, other company will loss confident to hire her even banned. Besides that, she had signed some previous financial statement, if that found by the relevant parties, she is liable to face the legal responsibility. (d) Yes. She can refer to the MASB standard 9- Revenue, under the section 15 “sale of goods- revenue from the sale of goods should be recognized when
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including derivatives, to make their financial statements seem stronger and less risky than they actually were. The banks, that were essentially giving them loans, were also involved in this scheme. The latest news of large-scale use of derivatives to deceive is the case of Italy and Greece entering into the Euro. The government received money, which was essentially a loan, but was able to keep it off the balance sheet because of its title. This made the financial statements look better so that the country
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