Basic Accounting Concepts Vai Ma’ake University of Idaho Financial Accounting ACCP/537 March 19, 2011 Introduction To identify and describe the sources of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Also identify the source hierarchy and explain why the hierarchy is important. Describe effective accounting information using the qualities of accounting information and how an accrual basis of accounting system is different from a cash basis of accounting
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1. Respond true or false to the following statements relating to the calculation and use of FCFE. A. The free cash flow to equity will generally be more volatile than dividends. B. The free cash flow to equity will always be higher than the dividends. C. The free cash flow to equity will always be higher than net income. D. The free cash flow to equity can never be negative. 2. Kimberly-Clark, a household product manufacturer, reported earnings per share of $3.20 in 1993 and paid dividends
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1.Delay recording and paying $5,000 in bills owed at the end of the year until the beginning of next year. Delaying the payment of $5,000 will overstate the net operating income by understating the expenses incurred during this year. Which will affect the Return on Investment during this year. If the expense in not billed then the ROI this year will be (30,800/140,000)= 22% but the expense is deducted from the operating income then the ROI becomes {(30,800-5,000)/140,000}= 18.42% which is less
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Financial Statement Differentiation Paper Financial Statement Differentiation Paper ACC/561 The Four Financial Statements consist of income statement, balance sheet, statement of cash flow, and statement of owner’s equity. The progress with the income statement, states gross revenues, minus the goods sold would give the gross profit of the company. Balance sheet consists of long term assets and long term liabilities that are current issues. The cash flow would be recognized by the money the
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Application of Transmittal May 10 , 2012 Course instructor School of Business, Southeast University Subject: Letter of transmittal. Dear Sir, Please find enclosed with this letter the report of “Beximco Pharmaceuticals, Ltd” that you wanted as partial requirement for the course of “Course”. The name of my project is " Ratio Analysis of a company." I collected all the relevant information and the annual report 2001, I go through from “Beximco Pharmaceuticals, Ltd.” I thing that
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Topic: Cash basis versus Accrual basis of accounting The cash basis of accounting, sometimes called cash accounting, is still used by some small companies whose business activity is uniform throughout the year--receiving and disbursing roughly the same amount of cash each month. Many individuals also use cash accounting.( Edmonds, McNair, Milam, and Olds, Fundamental Financial Accounting Concepts, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2002) In the cash basis of accounting, the business records are "cash
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Performance evaluation and ratio analysis of Pharmaceutical Company in Bangladesh Faruk Hossan Md Ahsan Habib Supervisor: José Ferraz Nunes Examiner: Bengt Kjellén Master‟s thesis in international Business 15 ECTS Department of Economic and Informatics University West Spring term 2010 0 ABSTRACT The thesis applies performance evaluation of pharmaceutical company in Bangladesh. It means evaluate how well the company performs. The main aim is achieved through ratio analysis of two
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Jamona Exercise Date | Cash Received | Interest Revenue (PV) | Bond Premium Amortization | Carrying Amount of Bonds | 1/1/2006 | | | | 322,744.44 | 12/31/2006 | 36,000.00 | 30,545.34 | 5454.66 | 317,289.78 | 12/31/2007 | 36,000.00 | 29,750.40 | 4958.45 | 312,331.33 | 12/31/2008 | 36,000.00 | 27,046.80 | 4507.85 | 307,823.48 | 12/31/2009 | 36,000.00 | 24,588.00 | 4098.04 | 303,725.44 | 12/31/2010 | 36,000.00 | 22,352.40 | 3725.44 | 300,000.00 | | | | | | Journal entries Purchase
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number that financial statement users use to value a company’s performance. Both Boards require improvements in their revenue recognition requirements, therefore joined forces to refine the principles for revenue recognition. The goal of the FASB and the IASB is to “develop a common” revenue recognition principle that would: 1. Strengthen the current revenue recognition procedure; 2. Enhance revenue recognition procedures throughout organizations; and 3. Provide a simplified method of
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us, Finance Department, we calculated the incremental cash flows and found the NPV as positive which implies that ISGC should accept the replacement. The reason why we had to calculate the cash flows is that according to the Stand-Alone Principle it is crucial to calculate the incremental cash flows in the decision process. By calculating the cash flows we can reach to the NPV(Net Present Value) of the Project which refers to the difference between an investment’s market value and its cost
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