...Value Line, in its current form, was incorporated in 1982 and is the successor to substantially all of the operations of Arnold Bernhard & Co., Inc. In June 2005, AB & Co. owned approximately 86.5% of the Company’s issued and outstanding common stock. The Company produces investment related periodical publications through its wholly owned subsidiary, Value Line Publishing LLC ("VLP") . VLP publishes in both print and electronic formats The Value Line Investment Survey®, one of the nation's major periodical investment publication, as well as The Value Line Investment Survey - Small and Mid-Cap Edition, The Value Line 600, Value Line Select, The Value Line Fund Advisor, The Value Line Special Situations Service, The Value Line Daily Options Survey and The Value Line Convertibles Survey. VLP also provides current and historical financial databases which include DataFile, Estimates & Projections, Convertibles, ETFs and Mutual Funds in standard computer formats. The Company also markets investment analysis software and includes The Value Line Investment Analyzer (which was last updated in 1999) and Value Line Mutual Fund Survey for Windows (which was last updated since 1998). The Company's print and electronic services are marketed from time to time through media, direct mail and the internet to retail and institutional investors. The company last advertised on television, CNBC, in 2001. In addition to Value Line Publishing LLC, the Company's other wholly owned subsidiaries...
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...Are Over the past 15 to 20 years more and more CEOs have been scrutinized and the typical CEO's pay is largely driven by market factors. CEOs pay is strongly related to stock performance. Because of more bureaucracy, the CEO's job has become increasingly more difficult over the past decade. In fact some would even argue that they are not paid enough and should be paid more. CEOs are being scrutinized more than ever. Some have taken on a celebrity persona such as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Jack Welch. The fact of the matter is their pay is driven by market forces. You don't really hear of athletes being scrutinized like CEOs. However, since the collapse of companies such as Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco, their exposure has put them in the forefront of our society. CEOs are not unique. Other industries with similar backgrounds have earned just as well in the last decade. This includes top lawyers, athletes and top financial executives. Kaplan contends that it would be difficult to understand how pay increase could be driven by non-market forces when pay to athletes, lawyers and other groups have increased just as much. Their pay is strongly related to stock performance. Kaplan's recent analysis of CEO pays in a given year found that CEOs in the top 20% of actual pay generate stock returns 60% greater. This is greater than other firms in their industries over the past three years. In addition, CEOs from firms in the bottom 20% of actual pay underperformed...
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... SOX Compliance Solution ***************** CMGT 16FEB2015 ******** SOX Compliance Solution The following Memo is to address the issue of organizing training for all company management personal, in the training of MetricStream© a software solution to The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). The Memo will address the main issue and how the training will be provided. The memo will also address how the company will be able to measure how successful the training was, and any problems that will be needed to be address had the company decided to conduct any future training sessions. MEMORANDUM TO: All Managers FROM: Head Office DATE: February 16, 2015 SUBJECT: SOX Compliance Solution Compliance to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is mandatory and requires the financial reports are accurate and reviewed by internal auditors to ensure accountability ("The Sarbanes-Oxley Act ", 2006). To ensure adherence to the SOX requirements and in order to streamline the process while reducing cost at the same time; the company has decided to implement MetricStream© as a software solution for managing the requirements of the act. MetricStream© not only provides tools for the management of internal auditing and reporting process, but also provides a way to show evidence of report findings. This tool also provides collaborative assistance tools to streamline the underlining process required by section 302 of SOX (MetricStream, Inc, 2015). The training required as part of the implementation...
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...Effect of Unethical Behavior Article Analysis Chris May 6, 2013 Acc 291 Judith Vargas University of Phoenix I am going to explain in this paper some situations that might lead to unethical accounting and how we can identify some of the unethical practices in accounting. In an article that I read it talked about how when the economy is down that a lot of companies enforce ethics and make their ethical policies even better, but at the same time the article also states that when the economy is booming does it relax it ethical policies and let things pass. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) has greatly helped to make company’s financial statements a lot better in making sure the companies are reporting all their earnings and expenses and so forth. The goal of SOX was to make companies and employees behave ethically; however, whether that has worked or not is questionable. Many argue that the implementation and ongoing requirements of Sarbanes Oxley and other laws are costly, time consuming, and as yet ineffective. Some say that SOX, “in many instances law has at best led to a culture of compliance rather than a culture of integrity. Even more disappointing is that too often the very activities Sarbanes Oxley were designed to prevent continue to slip past regulators until it is too late and the damage incurred (Hazels 2010)”. Some signs that I can think of, of a company being unethical is that they are struggling to pay back debts and these debts are not being...
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...Unethical accounting behavior has been on the forefront since the 1980s, in the United States. Unethical behavior is when someone takes advantage or manipulates another without their knowledge. Unethical behavior normally starts within upper management and transcends to the other employees. Unethical behavior consists of bribery, misusing funds, or manipulation of financial reports. When management or accountants knowing and unknowingly has overstated the value of the company’s assets and revenues, and has understated the expenses of the company, these acts are unethical behavior. Companies and individuals commit unethical behavior, for personal gain, greed, and sometimes by human error. When companies are pressured to meet certain deadlines for vendors and upper management it can lead to unethical behaviors. Auditors giving management advice concerning external audits and accounting procedures to manipulate accounting information is another form of unethical behavior (James). One of the most common acts of unethical behavior is when a member of management instructs a subordinate employee to manipulate a record for a transaction. Reporting incorrect information is unethical regardless of who is instructing the employee to do so. At no time is this appropriate behavior. Accounting principles requires companies to record their revenue for contracts only for one month. Anything outside of that one month will be recognized in the next year’s statements. Management should not instruct...
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...were how to apply ratio, vertical, and horizontal analyses to financial statement; and also, how to distinguish common stock and preferred stock and, how Corporations issue stocks in accordance with their Articles of Incorporation. Team A agreed that these topics were more clearly and easy to understand. We all were comfortable and ready to use these concepts in the real world. The topics we all struggled with are how to calculate the liquidity, profitability, and the solvency ratios on the balance sheet and income statement. We also learned that accounting could best be described as a type of mechanism or language put in place in order to provide information with regards to the financial position of an organization or business. This type of information is critical to investors as it provides them with important and detailed information that could turn out to be the determining factor as to their decisions to invest or not to invest in a particular organization. Therefore, it is not uncommon to find unethical behavior in accounting as unethical practices come in different forms and different situations that might lead to unethical practices in accounting include are misleading financial analysis in order to obtain personal gains, misuse of funds, exaggerating revenue, Purposely providing erroneous information in...
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...Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Sox Act) 2002 Student’s Name Institutional attachment The Sarbanes Oxley [sox] Act of 2002 made a significant move in the administrative environment of publically exchanged organizations. Because of a becoming number of corporate misrepresentation outrages, for example, Enron and Tyco universal, the united state congress passed the law in a push to decrease the likelihood of future extortion. The law requires more compressive monetary reporting necessities and upholds stricter punishments on the individuals who occupied with plans to swindle financial specialists. Then again, there are numerous adversaries to the law who accept the regulations are unnecessary and excessively excessive for generally organizations. With the end goal of this paper, I will dissect an article title "The Law change corporate" by Michael peregrine, which traces the some significant impacts of the law. The creator is a corporate legal counselor and has abnormal state of experience dealing with agreeability issues with open organizations. Generally, Michael accepts that SOX has been very fruitful. The most vital impact clarified in this article is focused on the structure of corporate legislation. He expressed that SOX seized the focused of corporate course from the corner of the workplace and returned it the meeting room, where it had a place. Besides the law empowered the recognizable proof of the best practices to guide meeting room conduct. Preceding 2002...
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...Role and Functions of Law Role and Functions of Law Without laws our society as a whole would be chaos. While some people live their lives by their morals, others make decisions solely based on consequences. Laws are designed to rule the people that don’t take their personal morals into account when making decisions, or people that have a set of morals that are way different than the norm. Without a clear set of consequences people would likely be running around all “willy-nilly” murdering each other. To make these consequences known you have to have a clear set of laws written otherwise people have without morals have nothing to consult when faced with decisions that might be immoral or unethical. Law basically forms all parts of our society. From our politics to the way we run our businesses, law is the code by which we operate. It is the code that we consult when faced with questions on how to treat one another, and how to be treated by others or even an organization. It tells us how to run our businesses and what our businesses can and cannot do. It tells us how organizations should be run, and what their powers are. In our society it is made clear to us what rights we have, and what we can do when people infringe upon these rights. Laws basically determine the way we act in our day to day lives. They are a clear standard on which we rely on to base our decisions. It’s debatable whether or not our laws are based on morals, or are morals are based on laws...
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...quadratic and higher degree equations, solving inequalities II. Functions and Graphs: Introduction to functions, domain and range of a function, Applications: demand, supply and profit functions, demand and supply schedule, value of business, depreciation, Special functions: polynomial, rational, piecewise defined functions, Absolute value function, and evaluation of such functions. Combination of functions. Applications: cost, investment, sales, profit, business, Graphs of functions: linear, quadratic, piecewise defined functions, graphing of quadratic functions by finding vertex, Applications on graphs: inventory, debt payment, pricing, revenue and profit, demand and supply curves, Maple session on functions and graphs III. Lines and Systems: Equation of a straight line, slope and intercept of a line, parallel and perpendicular lines, Applications: price-quantity relationship, production levels, cost, revenue, demand and supply equations, isocost line, isoprofit line, depreciation, appreciation, systems of linear equations, solution of system of linear equations, nonlinear systems: one linear one quadratic equation, solving nonlinear systems, Applications: market equilibrium, break-even points, profit and loss, business, Maple session on lines and systems IV. Exponential and Logarithmic Functions: Exponential functions and their graphs, logarithmic functions and their graphs, solving logarithmic and exponential equations,...
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... MOH/Est. Act. (Total indirect costs/total value of checks processed) $2,850,000/$95,000,000= $0.03 per dollar processed. b) (i) Retail Line—(Value of checks processed X cost per dollar processed) $9,500,000 X $0.03= $285,000 (ii) Business Line $85,500,000 X $0.03= $2,565,000 The allocations are driven by the dollar value of the checks processed. c) (i) Total indirect cost proportion for Retail Line (Allocation amount/Est. MOH) $285,000/$2,850,000= 10% (ii) Total indirect cost proportion for Business line $2,565,000/$2,850,000= 90% The original system assumed that indirect costs are incurred in direct proportion to the dollar value of the checks processed. This allocation is approximately accurate only if the indirect costs in Exhibit B are incurred in direct proportion to the dollar value of the checks each customer line writes. d) (i) Annual indirect cost per Retail account. (Allocated indirect costs/number of accounts) $285,000/150,000= $1.90 per account (ii) Annual indirect cost per Business account $2,565,000/50,000= $51.30 per account e) (i) Contribution to profit per Retail account (Revenue per account minus cost per account) $10.00 - $1.90= $8.10 (ii) Contribution to profit per Business account $40.00 - $51.30= ($11.30) This suggests Buckeye National Bank should pursue a strategy that increases the retail-customer base because the original cost system shows retail customers are profitable, but business customers are not. 2. One sign that the cost...
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...entrepreneurs who have created a business or product that they believed in. The industry of modeling is no different. The article from Forbes.com identifies a plus size woman, Ashley Graham, who created the healthy image of women to be pictured on the front cover of Sport Illustrated Magazine along with her own lingerie line. The article is written by Susan Adams who demonstrated a unique take on the everyday interviewing process which relates to the concepts of interviewing biases that we have discussed in class. The first concept that the article shows is about the business model with a closer look at two of the nine components; value proposition and customer segment. The article not only shows how entrepreneurs’ ideas come in all shapes and sizes but so do their owners. Graham not only is the first plus size woman on the cover of Sports Illustrated, but she has produced her own clothing line that has over $1.6 million in sales. She uses the business model to segment her market and assess the needs and values of her customers. The first step in the business model that I will be examining is the value proposition and how it is all about satisfying the needs of your customers and solving the problems that occur. This concept allows Graham to connect with her customers on a unique level by offering them a clothing/ lingerie line for those women who are plus size. She solves the plus sized women’s problem of finding lingerie by creating a line that is affordable yet elegant....
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...Conceptualizing a Business Tammie Dillard BUS/475 Aug. 29, 2011 Matt Nosbisch Introduction In present scenario, strategic direction plays a vital role in the overall success or failure of a business organization (Joyce & Woods, 2001). Key strategic elements guide the strategic direction of the organization. Alignment between strategic direction and business activities is essential to ensure the attainment of vision and mission. The selected company is beauty line organization to develop a strategic plan. It will cover vision, mission and guiding principles. Mission Statement A mission is the strategic direction that guides the organization to attain its business goals. To nourish and glow the skin of people will be the mission of beauty line business. To attain the mission, the organization will cover offer different beauty care products to the people. A wide range of beauty care products is offered that covers cosmetics, small instruments to improve beauty and beauty soaps (Joyce & Woods, 2001). Products are developed with a differentiated approach. It assists the company to develop competitive advantage in the respective industry. Vision Statement Vision is what the company wants to attain in its coming years. To become a market leader through differentiation will be the vision of the beauty line organization. To accomplish the vision, product differentiation will be used. An innovative thinking will be followed to ensure creativity in the beauty...
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...Asset Valuation Introduction As consultants for a new retail company, B.A.S.S. Customized Jewelers, our recommendations for reporting and valuing various assets of the business, as well as inventory policy, capitalization policy, and how these policies will help the company succeed are presented here. In this line of business, demonstrations of depreciation method recommendations are critical to show the inventory allocation and asset costs over the life of the inventory. Lastly, an examination of the policies and alternative valuation methods to justify the use of certain methods to use will be determined. This is the beginning process of meeting the future goals of the company and it is the desire of our committee and the company that as the C.E.O. you will find the recommendations viable. Inventory Policy Inventory management practices are varied; the accounting management is similar when it comes to inventory items. In the retail business, the shelves hold inventory until the product is purchased by the consumer. “The inventory account of a firm holds the cost of a product until the cost is released to the income statement to be subtracted from (matched with) the revenue from the sale. The cost of a purchased or manufactured product is recorded as an asset and carried in the asset account until the product is sold (or becomes worthless or is lost or stolen), at which point the cost becomes an expense to be reported in the income statement. The cost of an item purchased...
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........................................................................................................ 3 TFC Business Strategy.................................................................................................................................... 3 Brief SWOT Analysis ..................................................................................................................................... 4 Value-chain Analysis ...................................................................................................................................... 4 Key Success Factor ............................................................................................................................................. 4 Management Control Systems ............................................................................................................................ 5 Recommendations ............................................................................................................................................... 7 Conclusion .......................................................................................................................................................... 8 Appendix A – SWOT Analysis........................................................................................................................... 9 Appendix B – Value-Chain...
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...Preferred Letter Code of Business Brochure Title Alternate Letter Ethics: Brochure Title Our Core Values in Action Alternate Letter Brochure Title Alternate Letter Brochure Title Our Code of Business Ethics reinforces our core values and drives our culture of compliance, ethical decision making and accountability. Our core values shape the culture and define the character of our company. They guide how we behave and make decisions. Accenture will not tolerate retaliation against any employee who raises an issue or uses its Business Ethics Line (or any other appropriate channel) to report an ethical or legal concern. Employees who come forward with concerns play an important role in maintaining our ethical workplace and high-performance business. Contents Page 3 Page 6 Page 8 Page 11 Page 14 Page 17 Page 20 Page 25 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 How to Use the Code of Business Ethics: Our Core Values in Action Our Code at a Glance Client Value Creation One Global Network Respect for the Individual Best People Integrity Stewardship The Five Cs A Model for Making Ethical Decisions Responsibilities Index of Key Terms Visit the Accenture Business Ethics Line Visit the Code of Business Ethics website 2 | Accenture Code of Business Ethics How to Use the Code of Business Ethics: Our Core Values in Action Our Code is built on a foundation of our core values, illuminated by "action statements." Action statements describe the behaviors we seek and “key ideas” provide...
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