1) INTRODUCTION The purpose of this assignment is to develop learners’ analytical skills in reviewing the adoption of accounting standards in financial statements. In this assignment we are required to assess the accounting treatment of borrowing costs as per FRS 123‚ by using the latest two years financial statements for two companies listed on the Maldives Stock exchange. Financial Reporting Standard 123 Borrowing Costs (FRS 123) consists of paragraphs 1 to 30. All of the paragraphs in FRS123
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maintaining an adequate internal control structure and procedures for financial reporting” along with their report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The annual report must include an assessment of the effectiveness of the company’s internal control structure and procedures for financial reporting‚ followed by having a registered public accounting firm “attest on‚ and report on the assessment made by the management.” This aspect of the legislation requires companies to document
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Why Sony fail? When I read “Leading Change Why Transformation Efforts Fail”‚ I directly linked Sony with the transformation fail. Sony‚ the previous electrical giant‚ announced a record annual net loss of $6.4 billion for fiscal year 2011 in May 22 2012. This marks the fourth consecutive year that Sony reported substantial losses. Transformation efforts couldn’t turnaround the bad situation of Sony due to the mistakes that made by Sony in those transformation. First‚ Sony did not establishing a
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McDonald’s reported a year end annual earnings report for the last 4 years: 2010‚ 2009‚ 2008‚ and 2007. This portion of the McDonalds essay will cover the company’s account amounts for the 2 most recent year end reporting period which are 2010 and 2009. This report will cover the actual numbers from McDonald’s Corp balance sheet. The balance sheet lists each individual account that applies as a liability account. Accounts payable‚ notes payable‚ short term debt‚ accrued liabilities‚ and other
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How do the financial statements included in a Form 10-Q differ from the financial statements included in a Form 10-K filing? The Form 10-Q is a quarterly report designed to give a status of how a business is doing after three months of operation. The Form 10-Q and the Form 10-K differ in the report’s interval; the Form 10-K is an annual report. B. Why don´t Warnaco’s financial reporting periods end on the same date each quarter or year? Because a quarter is measured by quarters‚ is not measured
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This paper examines the timeliness of financial reporting in the People’s Republic of China. The timeliness of financial reporting was measured by counting the number of days that elapsed between year-end and the date of the independent auditor’s report for a number of Chinese companies. Those results were then compared to data of non-Chinese companies in developed market economies to determine whether there was a significant difference. This study also examines which independent audit firms issued
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Morgan was established in 1799 and despite multiple stock market crashes and recessions; it is a company that continues to do well in its sector (JP Morgan‚ 2014). J.P. Morgan Bank is the publicly traded company that I chose to analyze the 2013 annual report. At the end of 2013‚ the total assets of J.P. Morgan was 1‚945‚467‚000‚000; one trillion‚ nine hundred forty-five billion‚ four hundred sixty-seven million dollars in total assets (JP Morgan‚ 2014). The total assets of a company are important
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income over a set period of time. Because of Managerial accountants Micron was able to relies that their factory in Boise is not producing enough income to continue running. For external use managers use accounting statements to report the business to outsides these reports become the base for he information provided in the official corporate
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principal office or place of business. The purpose of these records is to enable anyone to appraise the organization’s current financial position with reasonable accuracy. Firms present their annual accounts in two main parts: the balance sheet‚ and the income statement (profit and loss account). The annual accounts of a registered or incorporated firm are required by law to disclose a certain amount of information. And have to be certified by an external auditor that they present a ’true and fair
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