Inventory is usually conceptualized as the line item that represents goods or products that retail or manufacturing companies have to sell. Inventories include raw materials, work-in-process and finished goods in certain entities. Inventories usually have a corresponding cost of sales/services account that as an operating expense reduces net sales or revenue. According to FASB, ASC 330-10-05-2 “An inventory has financial significance because revenues may be obtained from its sale, or from the sale
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‘CLEAN AUDIT REPORTS’: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE? The beginning of the 21st century was marked by major corporate collapses that jeopardised the reputation of the big Accounting and Auditing firms, questioning the very foundations of financial reporting and corporate governance. In a very short period of time, millions of dollars were wiped off the financial statements of major corporations, and the world saw giants collapse as large amounts of money were proven to exist only in paper. Even though fraud
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Government’s Fund Level Statements, and Other Information. C) The report does provide reconciliation between total governmental net assets per the government-wide statement of net assets and total governmental fund balances per the governmental fun balance sheet. The main reconciliation items are; capital assets that are capitalized on the government-wide statements but are not reported in the funds, Other long-term assets reported on the government-wide statements but not on the funds statement, internal
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Intermediate Accounting III Table of Contents Introduction 3 Deferred Taxes 4 Temporary and Permanent Differences 5 Income Tax Provision 6 Defined Benefit vs Defined Contribution Plan 6 Earnings-per-share 7 Stock-based compensation 8 Statement of Cash Flows 8 Investing Activities 9 Non-cash Transactions 9 Conclusion 10 Works Cited 11 FedEx: Power of Global Trade Introduction
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SECTION A Question A1 is COMPULSORY Question A1 Below are extracts from the financial statements of a listed company which operates a chain of bakery and sandwich retail outlets in the United Kingdom. Income statements | |2012 |2011 | | |£’000 |£’000 | |Revenue
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Chapter 15, Business Strategy in Asia, Kulwant Singh, Nitin Pangarkar and Loizos Heracleous, 2004 NOL and APL (A) CASE 15 After several years of dismal results, Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) was widely viewed as a laggard. The national shipping line was one of the worst performers among Singapore’s many government-linked corporations. Perhaps the low point was reached in 1996, when industry publication Containerisation International ranked NOL last in a field of 24 shipping firms on return on
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Profit and loss account The profit and loss account is a record of revenues and costs of the business over a period like a year. It shows how much profit the business has made over the past year and what has happened to the profit. The profit and loss account is a record of past costs and revenues. However, it can still help people in the business to make decisions about the future because the account says something about where the business has been in the recent past. On the whole though, other
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makes widgets. You’ve had a highly successful business so far and want to sell the company to anyone interested in buying it. How do you know how much to sell it for? Likewise, consider the Bank of America acquisition of Fleet. How did B of A decide how much it should pay to buy Fleet? For starters, you should understand that the value of a company is equal to the value of its assets, and that Value of Assets = Debt + Equity or Assets = D + E If I buy a company, I buy its stock (equity) and assume its
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CASE STUDY # 1 JETBLUE AIRWAYS PROF. AHSAN DURRANI Submitted by: IMRAN UL HAQUE (4282) Q.NO.4 WHAT IS YOUR ASSESSMENT OF JETBLUE`S FINANCIAL PERFORMACE DURING FISCAL YEARS 2003-2007? ANALYZE THE FOLLOWING RATIO`S. | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | Gross Profit Margin | | | | | | Operating Profit Margin | 0.0595 | 0.0537 | 0.0282 | 0.0877 | 0.1673 | Net Profit Margin | 0.0063 | (0.00042) | (0.01176) | 0.0364 | 0.103 | Return on Total Assets | 0.0398 | 0.032 | 0.0394
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Finnlines Plc FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2013 CONTENTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ REPORT ................................................................................................................................ 4 CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME, IFRS ...................................................................... 9 CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION, IFRS ............................................................................. 10 CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF
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