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ARU Student Number: 1354030
LCA student Number: 308697/410348
Module Title: Financial Reporting- An international Approach
Assessment: Final
Lecturer: Feroz Kassam-Kanji
Due Date: 08/01/2015
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Signature: Junita Lama
Name: Junita lama
Date: 28/12/2014
Table of Contents
Task 1 3
1. Conceptual framework 3
2. Usefulness of kingfisher’s financial statement 3
Task 2 4
1. Income statement 4
1.1. Revenue (sales): 4
1.2. Gross profit: 4
1.3. Selling Expenses: 4
2. Balance sheet 4
2.1. Assets 4
2.2. Liabilities 5
3. Owner’s equity 5
TASK 2(b) 5
1. Management commentary 5
2. Kingfisher’s management commentary and its effectiveness to fill the information gap 5
TASK 3. 6
1. Revenue and its treatment 6
2. Usefulness of revenue for performance analysis 6
3. Segmental Reporting 7
4. Usefulness of Segmental Reporting in Performance analysis 7
Task 4 7
1. Goodwill and Accounting policy about it by kingfisher plc. to satisfy user’s need 7
2. Intangible assets and Accounting policy about it by kingfisher plc. to satisfy user’s need 8
3. Controversy between goodwill and intangible assets 8
TASK 5 8
1. Income statement 8
2. Cash flow statement and its elements 9
3. Relationship between the cash flow and income statement 9
4. Differences between cash flow and income statement 9
Appendices 10
References 12
Task 1
1. Conceptual framework
The conceptual framework sets out the framework for the preparation of financial statements and comes
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