Corporate Financial Accounting and Reporting Tim Sutton second edition Corporate Financial Accounting and Reporting We work with leading authors to develop the strongest educational materials in business and finance, bringing cutting-edge thinking and best learning practice to a global market. Under a range of well-known imprints, including Financial Times Prentice Hall, we craft high quality print and electronic publications which help readers to understand and apply their content, whether
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University of Illinois Executive MBA Case Summaries Accy 401, EMBA; Fall 2000 Accounting courses are usually separated into five general categories. Two, taxes and auditing, are usually quite technical and often focus on CPA preparation. The other three categories are more general: 1. Financial accounting deals almost strictly with financial statement preparation. It focuses on pronouncements issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the SEC, and on accounting concepts
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michaeljsandretto@earthlink.net Texts: Antle, Rick, and Stanley J. Garstak, Financial Accounting, Southwestern (United States), second edition, 2004 (Antle). Palepu, Krishna G., Paul M. Healy, and Victor L. Bernard, Business Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements, Text Only, Southwestern (United States), fourth edition, 2004 (Palepu). Background: Accounting is called the language of business for at least two reasons. First, accounting terms such as sales, revenues, profit, net income, costs, gross
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net cash flows. Comparison of these constituents ultimately leads to project acceptance or rejection. As suggested by Bester (nd.), there are many advantages to using net present value as a capital budgeting evaluation technique. Some being as follows: * Incorporates the risk involved with a specific project. * Will depict the potential increase in firm value (i.e. the increase in shareholder wealth). * The time value of money is taken into account. * All expected cash flows are
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that will produce and sell finished tennis balls. In the language of finance, you make an investment in assets such as inventory, machinery, land, and labor. The amount of cash you invest in assets must be matched by an equal amount of cash raised by financing. When you begin to sell tennis balls, your firm will generate cash. This is the basis of value creation. The purpose of the firm is to create value for
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does agency theory examine? Why is it important in a public corporation rather than in a private corporation? The agency theory is about one party engaging or employing another party to take care or manage their interests as per set rules or expectations. The issues that
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Quick Ratio c) Cash Ratio d) Cash Conversion Cycle 2) Profitability Indicator Ratios a) Profit Margin Analysis b) Effective Tax Rate c) Return On Assets d) Return On Equity e) Return On Capital Employed 3) Debt Ratios a) Overview of Debt b) Debt Ratio c) Debt-Equity Ratio d) Capitalization Ratio e) Interest Coverage Ratio f) Cash Flow To Debt Ratio 4) Operating Performance Ratios a) Fixed Asset Turnover b) Sales/Revenue Per Employee c) Operating Cycle 5) Cash Flow Indicator Ratios
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accounting, and information system functions is the: (Points : 3) treasurer. director. controller. chairman of the board. chief executive officer. | 2. The person generally directly responsible for overseeing the cash and credit functions, financial planning, and capital expenditures is the: (Points : 3) treasurer. director. controller. chairman of the board. chief operations officer. | 3. The Securities Act of 1933 focuses
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lectures1 © Path Finance, www. path2finance.com Table of Contents 1.1 Financial Statements Analysis (R 22) ..........................................................................................................2 1.1.1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................................2 1.1.2 Financial Statements and Other Sources .........................................................
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CHAPTER NO 1 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING To understand the financial statements of company, one must understand first its operations. Accounting is a system the collects and processes financial information about an organization and reports that information to the decision makers. Decision makers could be internal decision makers and outsider decision makers. External decision makers are creditors, investors, suppliers and customers. Internal decision makers could be managers to make day to day operations
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