Term Project Part A: Understanding Financial Statements Locate and use an annual report STEP 1: The Company Assigned to you Find the most recent annual report online for the Canadian public company assigned to the last 2 digits of your student number as per the table provided below. The annual report obtained from SEDAR must contain audited financial statements and the MDA (management's discussion and analysis). Last 2 Company Assigned digits of your student number 00 01 02 03 04
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FAC3703/101/3/2015 Tutorial letter 101/3/2015 Specific Financial Reporting FAC3703 Semesters 1 and 2 Department of Financial Accounting IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Please activate your myUnisa profile and myLife email address and ensure you have regular access to the myUnisa module site FAC3703 as well as to your group site. Note: This is an online module, and therefore your module is available on myUnisa. CONTENTS Page 1 INTRODUCTION .........................................
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external users 4. FASB – responsible for GAAP (accounting principles) 5. Accounting Equation 6. Know the 3 activities that business engage in and give examples of each activity. (These 4 questions also relate to Chapter 12, The Statement of Cash Flows) 7. The International Accounting Standards Board is responsible for developing a single set of worldwide accountings standards (IFRS). 8. These standards will help companies to reduce accounting costs, make it easier to acquire foreign companies
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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Accounting Identity Time Value of Money Risk vs Reward Diversification Leverage Cash vs Accrual Cash & Free Cash Flow Sunk Costs Opportunity Costs A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. Agency Conflicts Capital Structure Cost of Capital - WACC Market Efficiency Arbitrage – No Free Lunch NPV vs IRR Relevant Costs CAPM Hedging Inflation Taxes Financing Growth and Expansion 1. Assets = Liabilities All resources are owed to someone: they belong to someone. 2
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Introduction In this paper, the author will attempt to compare and contrast lease versus purchase options by providing definitions of debt financing and equity financing and providing examples of each. Additionally, the author will attempt to address which alternative capital structure is more advantageous and why. Business owners must decide whether to purchase outright, finance purchases, or through a long-term lease. Full rights of ownership are realized when purchasing outright. Financed purchases
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Accounting 801 Written Assignment REQUIRED: Assume you have recently been hired by Needs Space as a staff accountant. Your manager has just contacted you asking if you would determine how Needs Space should account for two obligations associated with leased property (described in the case). Write a memo to the manager of Needs Space and have the memo from you as a staff accountant. Give the manager information related to accounting for the two obligations. Once you have obtained this information
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as an asset? No, the lease should be considered an operating lease. The building is the asset. The expense should be accrued on the building. The length of the lease should be less than 75% of the life of the asset leased. The lease is a ten year lease and the building has a 30-year economic life. Therefore this is an operating lease. The rental payments should be expensed as they are paid and offset by the cash used to make them. Should the agreement to pay lease rentals be recorded as
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AMS ACCOUNTING LLP Project Report on Audit of Matty Kitchens vikas 8/1/2014 Table of Contents Analytical Review 3 • Comparison 3 Changes in Income statement 3 Changes in Balancesheet 5 • Ratio Analysis 7 Liquidity position 7 Profitability 8 Leverage 8 Asset Management 8 Audit Risk assessment and Audit Approach 9 • Going concern risk 9 • Revenue 10 • Expenses 11 • Inventory 11 • Account Receivables – valuation and existence 13 • Goodwill 13 • Account
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ACCT2241 – Introductory Financial Accounting - Fall 2011 Assignment #8 (due Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 10:00PM) Instructions: 1. Your assignment must be completed in Word or Excel and saved using the filename: yourlastnamefirstinitial_HW8 (i.e., SmithJ_HW8) 2. This is an individual assignment. While you may discuss concepts from this assignment with your classmates, please remember that it is expected that the assignment will be completed and submitted on an individual basis.
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Chapter 18 Lease Financing ANSWERS TO END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS 18-1 a. The lessee is the party leasing the property. The party receiving the payments from the lease (that is, the owner of the property) is the lessor. b. An operating lease, sometimes called a service lease, provides for both financing and maintenance. Generally, the operating lease contract is written for a period considerably shorter than the expected life of the leased equipment, and contains a cancellation clause.
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