Memorandum Date: 2/18/13 Re: HealthSouth Accounting Scandal HealthSouth Corp.‚ one of the nation’s largest healthcare services providers in the United States was involved in one of the largest accounting scandals in United States history. HealthSouth Corp and its officials overstated earnings in order to meet Wall Street earnings expectations. This memorandum will describe who was involved‚ how the operation was carried out‚ as well as a timeline documenting the resulting damages of the scandal
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Business Memo The importance of budgeting I developed a spreadsheet including three budget schedules of Spiffy Shade Corporation‚ which is Production Budget‚ Direct-labor Budget‚ and Manufacturing Over-head Budget. According to the budget schedules‚ the company can plan ahead and meet the needs of demand. For example‚ form the Production Budget‚ the company can plan how many sunglasses should be produced for each month and quarter. Budget can also facilitating communication and coordination‚ and
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Analysis of Cisco _____________________________________________________________________ As you concerned‚ our company need to start report comprehensive income. I made several searches for that. In this memo‚ I will illustrate comprehensive income‚ FASB codification‚ and comprehensive income‚ locate and extract relevant information and authoritatively support for the financial report. Comprehensive Income & Net Income Net income shows a company’s total
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working at your accounting department in Ling Clothing Company. During look through the financial statement‚ I find some of transactions and events have a few mistakes in your company‚ which conflict with accepted accounting theory and GAAP. There are some mistakes I will present: The company switched from FIFO to LIFO in accounting for inventory. The preceding year it had switched from the weighted-average method to FIFO. I think it is conflict with accounting theory. First‚ accounting method should
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IFRS Illustrative financial statements October 2012 kpmg.com/ifrs 1 Contents What’s new 2 About this publication 3 Independent auditors’ report on consolidated financial statements 5 Consolidated financial statements 7 Consolidated statement of financial position 9 Consolidated statement of comprehensive income – single-statement approach 13 Consolidated statement of changes in equity 17 Consolidated statement of cash flows 21 Notes to
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Laurent Bailey ACC 501 Module 1 Case May 9‚ 2015 Mr. Dixit To: Serious Reader Company From: Laurent Bailey‚ Sr. Accountant Date: May 4‚ 2015 Subject: Quarterly Review Serious Reader Company‚ I’ve attached our completed income statement to this email‚ but I also wanted to quickly discuss the outcome your results. Overall Result Over the past year you have sold 4300 books‚ which look great on the surface. However you have experienced a severe profit loss. From the
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Chapter 3-1 The Accounting Information System Chapter 3-2 Financial Accounting‚ Fifth Edition Study Objectives 1. Analyze the effect of business transactions on the basic accounting equation. 2. Explain what an account is and how it helps in the recording process. 3. Define debits and credits and explain how they are used to record business transactions transactions. 4. Identify the basic steps in the recording process. 5. Explain what a journal is and
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ACCT 203: Section 1 Essay Instructions The Issue: You are a partner in Acme Accounting PSC and as such are considering how to respond to a letter written to you by “Bob” a new client. In his letter‚ he stated that he heard that there are two ways he can identify cost in the normal course of his construction business operations. He would like two know what they are‚ the major differences between them and which one best fits his business in terms of performance analysis. Your partners have asked
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Accounting and Profiling Information Management System A System Proposal Presented to the Faculty of the Information Technology Education Program University of the Immaculate Conception Fr. Selga St.‚ Davao City _________________ In Partial Fulfilment of the Academic Requirements for the Subject SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN (SAD) By: Dayrit‚ John Paul N. Evasco‚ Allan Christopher G. Mendoza‚ John Mark N. September 2013 Table of Contents Part I SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
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Mr. Blackheath had promoted Lee High to vice president of finance. Lee had practically been running the firm for several years during which time sales and profit had been declining. On November 15‚ 1977‚ Mr. Blackheath announced that his son. Trafalgar Blackheath‚ would take over as owner and president on January 1‚ 1978. Trafalgar was a graduate of an MBA program and for several years had been working for a large consulting firm as a marketing specialist. In their private discussions Mr. Blackheath
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