* Step one: Identify Potential Red Flags After analyzing Wal-Mart’s annual report for 2010, attention has been brought to several items that require closer examination. A common “red flag” to questionable accounting has been found within Wal-Mart’s statement of cash flows and income statement. There is an increasing gap between the company’s reported income and the cash flow from operating activities. In the year 2008 reported income and cash flow from operating activities differed by $484 million
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IFRS and US GAAP: similarities and differences IFRS readiness series October 2012 Table of contents The heart of the matter 2 US financial reporting will change significantly within the next several years An in-depth discussion 4 Examining the implications IFRS affects US businesses in multiple ways What this means for your business 6 Anticipate and manage the change What companies can and should do now October 2012 The heart of the matter US financial
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tax is an accounting concept, meaning a future tax liability or asset, resulting from temporary differences between book (accounting) value of assets and liabilities and their tax value, or differences between the recognition of gains and losses in financial statements and their recognition in a tax computation (FASB). Deferred tax is important in understanding the financial situation of a company’s operation because it provides a more accurate calculation of accrual earnings and accurate measure of
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Report on Disclosure of BASs & BFRSs By Golden Harvest Agro Industries Ltd. & Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills United International University QUEST FOR EXCELLENCE acade Report On: Golden Harvest Agro Industries Ltd. & Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills Limited Topic: Disclosure of BASs & BFRSs Course Title: Corporate Financial Reporting Course Code: AIS 4303 Submitted To: James Bakul Sarkar
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your selection and your reasoning fully. In our opinion, Partial Revenue Recognition approach is most consistent with the actual substance of a sales transaction involving an extended warranty contract. Using partial revenue recognition, the company can recognize partial revenue at the time of sale. We can distinguish between what is earned and what is yet to be earned. At the time of sale, the company recognized a portion of the revenue that they earned on the total sales because the warranty contract
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Financial Accounting-Case Study | Answers to 2-1 Question 1 and 2 Working Capital = Total Current Assets – Total Current Liabilities Current Ratio = Current Assets/Current Liabilities For Kellog 2009 Working Capital = 2558 – 2288 = 270 million dollars Current Ratio = 2558/2288 = 1.18 For Kellog 2010 Working Capital = 2915 – 3184 = - (269 million dollars) = Working Capital Deficit Current Ratio = 2915 /3184 = 0.91 Change in Working Capital = 270 – (-269) = 539 million dollars % Change
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need to be addressed. The first issue is lenders to the arena are concerned that the arena could not generate special-use revenue and in turn risk their investment. This becomes an audit issue because the investors are providing a way to finance the arena but if the arena in turn cannot support the payment with its revenue streams it causes a possible situation where revenues are overstated to make the arena look good. This directly relates to the second issue as the mortgage lenders and minority
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Comparison of IFRS to GAAP Khadija Boyd Crystal Scott ACC 290 11 August 2014 Deborah Wilson This paper will examine comparisons between the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS); which is designed to be a common global language for business affairs and the Generally Accepted Accounting Principle (GAAP); which refer to the standard framework of guidelines for financial accounting. There are certain ways that the format of a statement of financial position under the IFRS often
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CONTINGENCIES – Define Provisions and answer the following questions: • • • Why do them When to provide How much to provide – Calculate and account for Restructuring Provisions – Define Contingent Assets & Liabilities and apply relevant measurement and recognition rules – Apply IAS 37 Disclosure Requirements CURRENT LIABILITIES LIABILITY – Claims against the business arising out of a past transaction that will cause an outflow of resources e.g. loans, notes payable • Long-Term Liability - Obligations
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production lines for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the external factor to drop Western segment is that Walker Books needs to prepare funds to invest on E-book production development since digital revenues are replacing tradition book revenues and Walker Books needs to start E-book business to prevent losing revenue from lack of online sales.(Appendix 5) Thus, after dropping Western segment, Walker Books will be able to spend variable costs associated with Western segment on developing E-book production
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