FORECASTING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS: PROFORMA ANALYSIS Roger Clarke and Grant McQueen August 2001 ABSTRACT This teaching note explains why and how managers project financial statements into the future. The note is designed for an introduction to corporate finance class. The note prepares students for either a case such as Clarkson Lumber or a real-word project in which proforma statements are needed. This note explains how to build a proforma balance sheet and intentionally does
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Welcome to AIBF Financial Statement Analysis Training Asalamualikum! Khalid Zarif Current engagements Deputy Director & Academic Head of AIBF President of Afghanistan Association of Professional Accountants (AAPA) Bank Millie Afghan (BMA) Supervisory Board Member President of Afghan Social Researchers Association (ASRA) Work Experiences Business Unit Manger & adjunct Trainer, AUAF-PDI Technical Adviser, FinTRACA- Da Afghanistan Bank Custom Analyst- Ministry of Finance Official of Treasury Department-
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also be used to explain existing practices to obtain a better understanding of them. But the most important goal of accounting theory should be to provide a coherent set of logical principles that form the general frame of reference for the evaluation and development of sound accounting practices. IS AN ACCOUNTING THEORY POSSIBLE? 115 Let’s compare this with what many believe is the accounting framework, the IASC Framework for the Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements. This
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also be used to explain existing practices to obtain a better understanding of them. But the most important goal of accounting theory should be to provide a coherent set of logical principles that form the general frame of reference for the evaluation and development of sound accounting practices. IS AN ACCOUNTING THEORY POSSIBLE? 115 Let’s compare this with what many believe is the accounting framework, the IASC Framework for the Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements. This
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also be used to explain existing practices to obtain a better understanding of them. But the most important goal of accounting theory should be to provide a coherent set of logical principles that form the general frame of reference for the evaluation and development of sound accounting practices. IS AN ACCOUNTING THEORY POSSIBLE? 115 Let’s compare this with what many believe is the accounting framework, the IASC Framework for the Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements. This Framework
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language of business.” Why? Because it communicates so much of the information that owners, managers, and investors need to evaluate a company’s financial performance. These people are all stakeholders in the business—they’re interested in its activities because they’re affected by them. In fact, the purpose of accounting is to help stakeholders make better business decisions by providing them with financial information. Obviously, you wouldn’t try to run an organization or make investment decisions without
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Accounting and Business OBJECTIVES Obj 1 Describe the nature of a business and the role of ethics and accounting in business. Obj 2 Summarize the development of accounting principles and relate them to practice. Obj 3 State the accounting equation and define each element of the equation. Obj 4 Describe and illustrate how business transactions can be recorded in terms of the resulting change in the basic elements of the accounting equation. Obj 5 Describe the financial statements of a proprietorship
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framework, in the field we are concerned with, is a statement of generally accepted theoretical principles which form the frame of reference for financial reporting. The financial reporting process is concerned with providing information that is useful in the business and economic decision-making process. Therefore a conceptual framework will form the theoretical basis for determining which events should be accounted for, how they should be measured and how they should be communicated to the user. Although
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CV FASHIONS/T-SHIRT MANIA 2013 BTEC L3 BUSINESS DIPLOMA UNIT 5 BUSINESS ACCOUNTING TINOTENDA MARECHA LAMBETH COLLEGE CV FASHIONS/T-SHIRT MANIA 2013 BTEC L3 BUSINESS DIPLOMA UNIT 5 BUSINESS ACCOUNTING TINOTENDA MARECHA LAMBETH COLLEGE CONTENTS DETAILS PAGE NUMBER PURPOSE OF ACCOUNTING-P1 |
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rules permit changes from one alternative policy to another at the discretion of the management. Since reported accounting figures are widely used by a number of external parties, managers of firms have incentives to choose accounting policies in order to influence the behavior of these parties. A variety of managerial motives for accounting policy decisions have been identified in the accounting literature. The Harnischfeger case is designed to encourage students to explore these motives. Harnischfeger
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