Goodwill: Apple, Inc. tests their goodwill and intangible assets for impairment at minimum, annually. They may even sooner depending on when the events of changes in circumstances show that these assets may be impaired. Therefore, Apple does not amortize their goodwill and intangible assets with indefinite useful lives. Intangible assets with definite useful lives are amortized over a period of their useful lives, and after are reviewed for impairment. Currently, Apple’s acquired intangible assets
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LONDON SCHOOL OF COMMERCE COLOMBO CAMPUS SRI LANKA MBA FOR EXECUTIVES Module Name: Financial Analysis and Management Student Name: Anuradha S. Illeperumaarachchi Module Lecturer: Mr. William Parrott Module Tutor: Mr. S. Skandakumar Date Submitted: 10/07/14 Total Word Count: 4193 Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction to the Report 3 2.0 Introduction to Airbus 3 3.0 Introduction to Boeing 5 4.0 Analysis of Financial Management
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Air Canada is Canada’s largest domestic and international full-service airline and the largest provider of scheduled passenger services in the domestic market, the transborder market and each of the Canada-Europe, Canada-Pacific, Canada-Caribbean/Central America and Canada-South America markets. Passenger transportation is the principal business of the Corporation and, in 2009, represented 87% of its total operating revenues. During 2009, Air Canada, together with Jazz, operated, on average
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ANNUAL REPORT 2014 1. HIGHLIGHTS The financial and operating highlights for Air Canada for the periods indicated are as follows. FOURTH QUARTER CANADIAN DOLLARS IN MILLIONS, EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED 2014 2013 FULL YEAR $ Change 2014 2013 $ Change FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE METRICS Operating revenues 3,104 2,894 210 13,272 12,382 890 106 135 (29) 815 619 196 (206) (141) (65) (710) (617) (93) (100) (6) (94)
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How did Financial Reporting Contribute to the Financial Crisis? Mary E. Barth Graduate School of Business Stanford University Stanford, CA, 94305 mbarth@stanford.edu. Wayne R. Landsman Kenan-Flagler Business School University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 wayne_landsman@unc.edu. May 2010 Forthcoming, European Accounting Review, 2010 We appreciate comments from seminar participants at the Bank of Spain, Rob Bloomfield, Elicia
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Financial Crisis Advisory Group July 28, 2009 To the Members of the International Accounting Standards Board and the US Financial Accounting Standards Board: On behalf of the members of the Financial Crisis Advisory Group (FCAG), we are pleased to present our report to the Boards about the standard-setting implications of the global financial crisis. We believe that confidence in the transparency and integrity of financial reporting is critically important to global financial stability
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| US | JAPAN | CHINA | GERMANY | NETHERLAND | FRANCE | PROFESSIONALISM | Regulation environment:1. accounting is regulated by private-sector body(FASB), but government underpins the authority of its standards. 2. no legal requirement for the publication of FS3. each state has its own corporate statutes and not rigorously enforced. Reports rendered to local agencies are often unavailable to the public4. only listed companies have compulsory requrirements for FR at the federal level as specified
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GLOBAL AVIATION GROUP 2013 Airline Disclosures Handbook Financial reporting and management trends in the global aviation industry kpmg.com KPMG’s Global Aviation practice KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We operate in 156 countries and have 152,000 people working in member firms around the world. The independent member firms of the KPMG network are affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity
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assumption – stable Interntional Financial Reporting Standards(IFRS) Many countries have own versions of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) Reports had to be restated to convert accounting data from one country to another IFRS developed and are used by most countries in the world US still follows on GAAP US GAAP overseen by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) SEC tentaviley set date for U.S adoption of IFRS in 2015 Will make it easier to compare financial statements
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How did Financial Reporting Contribute to the Financial Crisis? Mary E. Barth & Wayne R. Landsman a a b Graduate School of Business , Stanford University , Stanford, CA, USA b Kenan–Flagler Business School , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, NC, USA Published online: 07 Jul 2010. To cite this article: Mary E. Barth & Wayne R. Landsman (2010) How did Financial Reporting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?, European Accounting Review, 19:3, 399-423, DOI: 10.1080/09638180
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