Kansas City Zephyrs Case Study Chad Dellworth Case: Kansas City Zephyrs Baseball Club: A Baseball Accounting Dispute ACCT 6350 1. How Should Bill Ahern resolve each of the accounting conflicts between the owners and the players? After meeting with both the owners and the players, Bill concludes that the three main accounting areas of concern between both parties are: * 1) Roster depreciation * 2) Player compensation * 3) Owners’ stadium fees In all of three of these conflicts
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Financial Accounting July 2012 Session 3 Kansas City Zephyrs and Inventories Jacob Cohen MIT Sloan School of Management 1 Kansas City Zephyrs – Setting I Kansas City Zephyrs – Setting II What are the owners’ incentives? What are the players’ incentives? Kansas City Zephyrs – Discussion Take-Away slide I Kansas City Zephyrs • A case where financial statements are used to resolve an internal dispute • Distinct from Shrek 2, which focused on the effect of accounting
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Case 1-1 Ribbons and Bows Questions: 1a. How would you report on the three-month operations of Ribbons an’ Bows, Inc., through June 30? Ribbons an’ Bows remains in the black at the end of the three month period given to us in the case. However, several items need to be considered to have a good understanding of the state of the company from a profitability standpoint: all monies going out (debited), and all monies already in (credited). 1b. Was the company profitable? On paper
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Applying Accounting Principal to the Kansas City Zephrys Baseball Club Case Measurement Positions Roaster Depreciation Measurement Issues Player Compensation Stadium Expense 1. Owners’ Accounting The accounting follows the industry standard of accounting principles within the baseball field in essence the owners get to write off the declining market value of the player contracts as a loss while also counting the annual salaries paid the players as an expense. The financial statement account
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Kansas City Zephyrs There are 5 items of dispute between the owners and the players. These items are : 1. Roster depreciation 2. Current roster salary 3. Amortization of signing bonuses 4. Non-roster guaranteed contract expense 5. Stadium operations The owners claim that they are making losses in the financial years 2004- 2005 whereas players are calming that owners are using accounting tools to hide profits thereby depriving players of their rightful amount in compensation and other
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Case 1 Warren E. Buffett, 1995 How is Berkshire Hathaway’s business composition from Exhibit 1 different or similar today? Be specific. Provide an overall statement to describe Berkshire Hathaway’s performance over time compared to the S&P 500. Can you discern a trend in the investment decisions of Mr. Buffett and are his decisions consistent with the principals learned from his mentor Dr. Graham? Based on the types of company’s that BK now owns, have the Acquisition Criteria been
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The University of Illinois Executive MBA July 13, 2004 Tentative Syllabus Managerial Perspective on Financial Accounting Accountancy 401X; Fall 2004 Michael J. Sandretto, 225C David Kinley Hall (217) 244-6410 (office); (217) 352-4832 (home, before 10:30 p.m.) sandrett@uiuc.edu or 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
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The 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
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|Word |Synonym |Sentence | |Abase |to humiliate, degrade, debase, corrupt, |Don’t abase yourself by accepting this offer. | | |disgrace | | |Abash |to bewilder, confound, confuse
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