Assignment 1: Annual Report Project Due Week 8 and worth 20 points The purpose of a corporate annual report is to communicate to stockholders and other interested parties its financial statements. The annual report is a summary of the corporation’s operations over the previous 12-month time period and states the corporation’s plans for the future. Many annual reports are created to resemble a corporate brochure, using lots of pictures, color, charts, and graphs. Despite the fancy look, the main
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shareholders and allow the company to receive the highest possible price for its shares. The CFO has provided you, an accountant who works in Huaraz’s finance department a list of contentious accounting issues facing the company. Required: Prepare a report to the CFO that addresses the contentious accounting issues. Provide support for your recommendations. (You should provide brief solutions to each of these issues. In coming up with a solution you should recognize that not every problem has a definite
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The Investor Relations Society ‘Determinant Factors for Best Investor Relations’ 1. Best Communication of strategy, performance and key performance indicators (KPIs) in the annual report |Business and financial review |Best Practice | |requirements |
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EVALUATION OF REASEARCH PAPER Title: Audit Research after Sarbanes-Oxley Author: Mark L. DeFond and Jere R. Francis A. Describe the research problem or question. Evaluate the importance of the research question to audit practice. This paper attempts to stimulate research into some of the important questions implicitly raised by SOX regarding the audit profession’s potential failings. Enron’s failure and the accounting scandals at Worldcom and other companies provide compelling evidence that
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Dear Auditing Committee, I have compared what the audit and review service entails per your request. Audit Services An audit service provides financial statement users with an opinion on whether the financial statements are presented and prepared fairly in accordance with the applicable financial accounting framework (Arens & Elder, 2014). Its responsibilities are to detect misstatements in the financial statements, identify weaknesses in the internal controls over the financial reporting, and
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BUS 591 Entire Course For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com BUS 591 Week 1 DQ 1 Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (G.A.A.P.). BUS 591 Week 1 DQ 2 Annual Reports BUS 591 Week 1 Homework Problems BUS 591 Week 2 DQ 1 Debits and Credits BUS 591 Week 2 DQ 2 Revenue & Expense BUS 591 Week 2 Homework Problems BUS 591 Week 3 DQ 1 Perpetual Inventory System BUS 591 Week 3 DQ 2 Inventory Valuation Methods BUS 591 Week 3 Homework Problems
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Term Paper/Book Review 11/16/15 Magnificent Masquerade, by Charles Keats, 1964 Summary of the McKesson & Robbins Scandal Before the scandals of Enron and WorldCom, which are considered the greatest accounting scandals of the 21st century, the most notorious & influential accounting scandal of frauds in the 20th century, or in American history, is the McKesson & Robbins scandal of 1939. In the early fall of 1926, Philip Musica, assuming the name of F. Donald Coster, took control
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professionalism of the auditing profession was, however, called into question after some spectacular and well publicised corporations (for example Enron and WorldCom in the US) collapsed shortly after an unqualified (in other words: “clean”) audit report had been issued. The auditing
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1. Primary audit risk factors that were evident within Powder River’s operations are: • Fraudulent Financial Reporting Risk for Revenue • Other Areas of Fraud Risk. From year-end 2004 through the first-quarter 2008, defendant Brian Fox misled the investing public by fraudulently inflating the revenue and assets and fraudulently omitting major liabilities, of Powder River Petroleum International, Inc. (“Powder River” or the “company”) in the company’s Commission filings, and by
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The primary purpose of this essay is to comparatively analyze information disclosure of intellectual capital in the UK and China, using the content analysis method on company annual reports. In contemporary society, the importance of intellectual capital (IC) and the popularity of using IC to value a company’s competitiveness have been increasing. The definition offered by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (2001) is probably
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