Lisa Clark Accounting Capstone Project March 15, 2013 Week 2 Application The four main financial statements are the balance sheet, the income statement, the cash flow statements, and the statements of shareholder’s equity. Each statement can be used to give an insight to a company’s financial activities, and can provide valuable information on said company. The balance sheet provides detailed information on a company’s assets, liabilities, and their shareholder’s equity. A company’s balance
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CASE 1.9 ZZZZ Best Company, \nc. On May 19,1987, a short article in The Wall Street Journal reported that ZZZZ Best Company, Inc., of Reseda, California, had signed a contract for a $13.8 million insurance restoration project. This project was just the most recent of a series of large restoration jobs obtained by ZZZZ Best (pronounced "zee best"). Located in the San Fernando Valley of southern California, ZZZZ Best had begun operations in the fall of 1982 as a small, door-ta-door carpet cleaning
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a proposed change to the way the United States does accounting and financial preparations. Should we shift from U.S. GAAP to IFRS? I do not think that we should shift from U.S. GAAP to IFRS. I am attending Kaplan University at this moment to complete my Bachelor’s of Science in Accounting. Saying this, I do not want to have to go back to school to learn a new method of accounting and way of reporting financial statements. The second reason to not change to IFRS is that the United States
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downfall of this organization. According to the legal expert Anton R. Salukis, Lehman Brothers excessively used accounting manipulations. The negligence or the willful blindness of Lehman’s CEO, Richard Fuld, promoted the practice of filing misleading financial reports by abusing an accounting device, Repo 105. Through this accounting manipulation, they could remove fifty billion of unwanted assets off the balance sheets on 2008 [ (Robbins, 2012, p. 147) ]. Looking into the culture of this corporation
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and a business' bank account is called a financial statement. The financial statement lets the person and business know what debits have been taken place in a monthly and yearly time and also credits that have been done in a monthly ans yearly time. There are four types of a financial statement and that is a balance sheet, a profit and loss statement, a statement of a change in equity, and a statement of cash flow. These four types of a financial statement have their own purpose in the accounting
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regarding Tootsie Roll Industries current financial position, how Tootsie Roll Industries plans to implement the funds from the loan, and how the funds will promote future company growth. Financial Statement Summary….Michelle (~375 words) (due Jan 7th) A General financial statement summary is important when requesting a loan for expansion or any other reason like inventory purchases or debt retirement. The Tootsie Roll Company has four important financial statements that reflect important information
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operating capital and preparing financial projections and budgets are vital components in any new business. When starting a new business, business owner must have knowledge that a new business needs capital and some kind of funding to run the business, and how to manage and be prepared for financial hardships or turn in events. Jumping into your new business without some level of financial knowledge and planning is only going to cause a new business owner headaches, financial problems, and possibly cause
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to use accounting reports to make period-to-period comparisons. Is this true for both the purchase method and the pooling method? Explain. Merger related accounting inhibits the period to period comparisons because with the pooling method financial statements are restated effectively making the acquired company part of the parent before the deal is finalized hindering period to period comparisons. b. Explain why a high price-to-earnings ratio is crucial to Tyco’s acquisitions strategy. With
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easy-to-understand information that can help them make better-informed decisions about their health and protect their faineances against health related risk. I was able to locate Aetna’s 2011 annual report, financial report to shareholders online. It starts with the Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (MD&A) which shows an overview of earnings, cash flows and significant developments for the last three years and an outlook for 2012 (Aetna, 2013). Between 2009
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auditor consider when determining whether an account should be considered significant? ANSWER: The auditor should consider planning materiality. When a financial statement account exceeds the planning materiality, that account should be considered significant for both the audit of internal control over financial reporting and the financial statement audit. The more the account exceeds planning materiality, the greater it should be considered significant. 1b) What qualitative factors might cause
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