2014 Michael Velazquez FIRST SOLAR, INC. 12/31/2014 ACCT 551 Course Project Notes to Financial Statements Source for the original company financial statements: http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/FSLR/63956618x0x819571/AD02242D-C0E5-4C49-AE46-A8265164AD5F/First_Solar_2014_Annual_Report_Bookmark_-_Final.pdf TABLE OF CONTENTS Consolidated Balance Sheets for the year ended December 31, 2014, 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 03 Consolidated
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Fourth Edition Financial Statement Analysis & Valuation Peter D. Easton University of Notre Dame Mary Lea McAnally Texas A&M University Gregory A. Sommers Southern Methodist University Xiao-Jun Zhang University of California, Berkeley Cambridge Business Publishers To my daughters, Joanne and Stacey —PDE To my husband Brittan, and my children Loic, Maclean, Quinn and Kay —MLM To my wife Susan, and my children Christian, Peter and Philip —GAS To my wife
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Chapter 3 The Balance Sheet and Financial Disclosures AACSB assurance of learning standards in accounting and business education require documentation of outcomes assessment. Although schools, departments, and faculty may approach assessment and its documentation differently, one approach is to provide specific questions on exams that become the basis for assessment. To aid faculty in this endeavor, we have labeled each question, exercise, and problem in Intermediate Accounting, 7e with
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Disclaimer Notes to the Annual Report and Accounts This PDF version of the Unilever Annual Report and Accounts 2007 is an exact copy of the document provided to Unilever’s shareholders. Certain sections of the Unilever Annual Report and Accounts 2007 have been audited. Sections that have been audited are set out on pages 69 to 121, 125 to 126, 128 to 130 and 133 to 135. The auditable part of the report of the Remuneration Committee as set out on page 49 has also been audited. The maintenance and
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topics such as income taxes, pensions and other post-retirement benefits, shareholders equity, share-based compensation, earning per share, accounting changes and error corrections, and the statement of cash flows (revisited). Homework and three exams are used to evaluate students’ understanding of the material. Special note: although the emphasis of this course is US GAAP, we are rapidly moving towards convergence with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Due to the importance many
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BMO Financial Group 198th Annual Report 2015 There are many ways to talk about what lies ahead: Change. Disruption. Opportunity. Growth. We’ve gotten closer to our customers. Made banking simpler. Unified our businesses. Expanded our footprint. Invested in new platforms. Embraced a better rulebook. And through it all, delivered consistently strong results. Business Review Financial Review 2 4 10 11 16 17 18 20 21 23 24 26 118 132 Financial Snapshot/Who We Are
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estimating uncollectible amounts. * If the installment sale creates significant uncertainty concerning cash collections, making impossible a reasonable assessment of future bad debts, then revenue and expense recognition should be delayed * GAAP requires that they installment sales method be applied to retail land sale that meets certain criteria. * At times, revenue recognition is delayed due to a high degree of uncertainty related to ultimate cash collection. * The installment sales
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Text and Answer Do it! p. 52 p. 53 p. 62 p. 68 Work Using the Decision Toolkit Review Summary of Study Objectives Work Comprehensive Do it! p. 72 Answer Self-Test Questions Complete Assignments Go to WileyPLUS for practice and tutorials Read A Look at IFRS p. 96 study objectives After studying this chapter, you should be able to: 1 Identify the sections of a classified balance sheet. 2 Identify and compute ratios for analyzing a company’s profitability. 3 Explain the relationship between a retained
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Accountancy is the production of financial records for organizations and shows readers in money terms the economic resources the company has under its control and represents it in terms of relevance and does this faithfully. Accounting is called “the language of business” because it acts as a vehicle for a business entity to report their financial information to groups of people outside of the company’s day to day activities. Some researchers believe the earliest instance of accounting was from
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Chapter 3 The Balance Sheet and Financial Disclosures Questions for Review of Key Topics Question 3-1 The purpose of the balance sheet, also known as the statement of financial position, is to present the financial position of the company on a particular date. Unlike the income statement, which is a change statement that reports events occurring during a period of time, the balance sheet is a statement that presents an organized array of assets, liabilities, and shareholders’
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