Managerial Perspective on Financial Accounting Accountancy 401X; Fall 2004 Michael J. Sandretto, 225C David Kinley Hall (217) 244-6410 (office); (217) 352-4832 (home, before 10:30 p.m.) sandrett@uiuc.edu or michaeljsandretto@earthlink.net Texts: Antle, Rick, and Stanley J. Garstak, Financial Accounting, Southwestern (United States), second edition, 2004 (Antle). Palepu, Krishna G., Paul M. Healy, and Victor L. Bernard, Business Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements, Text Only
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1. Introduction 1.1. Purpose of the Document This document provides the business process description, a data storage summary and potential IT solutions. 1.2. General Overview Our general objective is to have a central IT system, for the five DGs involved in research, based on Web technology for the storage and management of the essential proposal data and documents. The general business process is described by the following figure: 1.3. Goal of the negotiation Collection and finalisation
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Accounting 1 Ms. Harrington 2/22/12 Financial fraud was a word rarely herd of before the 2000’s, but as the economy got worse and worse it became a leading headline. Americans began to find out that some of America top companies had been intentionally altering their accounting books to appear stable. Some of these companies were taking the money for personal use and some to convince people to still invest with them. As well as top company’s being fraudulent there were new highs hit as banks
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Rochem Ltd This case examines an equipment purchase decision as faced by a small food preservatives manufacturing company. The text is a description of a meeting between four managers concerned with the decision and presents their evidence to the management committee together with their personal views as to which of two alternative machines ought to be bought. No conclusion is reached in the case. Some notes on the Rochem Ltd case exercise The equipment purchase decision in general It is
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Case #4: THE BATTLE FOR VALUE, 2004: FEDEX CORP. VS. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC. Synopsis and Objectives • Set in June 2004 • To assess the financial performance of FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service, Inc (UPS). The two firms have competed intensely for dominance of the overnight express package industry. • This case is intended for use in an introductory discussion of corporate value creation and its sources. It requires no numerical computations; rather, the tasks
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Scoring Model and Evaluation of Candidate Performance ................................................................................... 6 ©CGA-Canada, 2011 1 CGA-Canada PA2 Examination Blueprint 2011/2012 PA2: Strategic Financial Management Examination Blueprint 2010/2011 About the Examination Blueprint The PA2: Strategic Financial Management examination has been constructed using an examination blueprint — a widely accepted tool used
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l o c a t e / d s s Detection of financial statement fraud and feature selection using data mining techniques P. Ravisankar a, V. Ravi a,⁎, G. Raghava Rao a, I. Bose b a b Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, Castle Hills Road #1, Masab Tank, Hyderabad 500 057, AP, India School of Business, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Recently, high profile cases of financial statement fraud have been dominating
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Instructor’s Manual Enterprise Resource Planning, 1/E CHAPTER 1: A FOUNDATION FOR UNDERSTANDING ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS CHAPTER OBJECTIVES 1. Develop an understanding of how ERP systems can improve the effectiveness of information systems in organizations. 2. Understand the business benefits of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. 3. Understand the history and evolution of ERP. CHAPTER OUTLINE 1. A Foundation for Understanding Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
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Running head: Case 3.4 Survival of GM 1 Study of Case 3.4 Financial Survival of General Motors Student Name Wilmington University Case 3.4 Survival of GM Study of Case 3.4 Financial Survival of General Motors General Motors (GM) is struggling strategically with its meager financial position in the automobile industry. Alternatives solutions to address the financial trepidation include restructuring, reducing debt, and the most favorable alternative, focusing on products to satisfy customers
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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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