Ratio and Financial Statement Analysis July 25‚ 2013 MGMT640 Executive Summary In corporate finance‚ both ratio and financial statement analysis are important tools that can be used in order to assess a company’s strength financially. They can be used in order to forecast a business’ prospective cash flow and ability to grow in the future‚ as well as a company’s strengths and weaknesses. Income statements‚ balance sheets‚ the statement of retained
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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT COMMON SIZE STATEMENT AND TREND ANALYSIS INTRODUCTION We know business is mainly concerned with the financial activities. In order to ascertain the financial status of the business every enterprise prepares certain statements‚ known as financial statements. Financial statements are mainly prepared for decision making purpose. But the information as is provided in the financial statements is not adequately helpful in drawing a meaningful conclusion. Thus‚ an effective analysis
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BANKS [IN THE CASE OF SELECTED PRIVATE AND PUBLIC BANKS] A SENIOR ESSAY SUBMITTED TO DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE‚ IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT OF BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE IN ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE. Prepared by: Ruth Alemayehu ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT‚ INFORMATICS AND ECONOMIC SCIENCE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC ADMINSTRATION DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING
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law to prepare and provide financial statements for each accounting period. This has been the case since the conception of The Companies Act 1948’ (Flint‚ 1982)‚ last amended in 1985. Although it’s been over 55 years of reporting entities preparing financial statements‚ the objective of these statements has always been a matter of discussion. The Accounting Standards Board (ASB) came up with a precise outline in 1999 which stated "The objective of financial statements is to provide information about
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Financial Statement Analysis A financial statement analysis will be presented for Microsoft Corporation. “Microsoft Corporation is engaged in developing‚ manufacturing‚ licensing and supporting a range of software products and services for different types of computing devices†(MSN.com‚ 2010). This corporation trades publicly (NASDAQ: MSFT) and does business in Puerto Rico with offices in Guaynabo‚ PR (services) and Humacao‚ PR (manufacturing and services). To measure their progress
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Financial Statements Financial Statements of a company measures the performance of their accounting period. The four parts of a Financial Statement are income statement‚ balance sheet‚ and statement of cash flow‚ and stockholders’ equity. The income statement of Landry’s Restaurants will show the summary of how the business has incurred revenues and expenses through operating expenses (Phillip‚ Libby‚ Libby‚ 2005). The income statement of Landry’s Restaurants‚ Incorporation shows the
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THE EFFECTS OF ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS ON FINANCIAL STATEMENT 5.1 ENTITY CONCEPT The first accounting concept is entity concept. These concept shows accounts are kept for entities and not the people who own or run the company. Even in proprietorships and partnerships‚ the accounts for the business must be kept separate from those of the owners. This is because what whatever amount the company owes to others is not the liabilities of the owners. The maximum amount that the owner is going to lose
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Financial Statements The Role of Financial Statements in an Effective Market: Financial Statements are a company’s primary source of financial information. If you want to invest in a company and needed to know how to find out if a certain company is worth the investment you would take a look at the company’s financial statements. Simply put a financial statement is a declaration of what is believed to be true about a company‚ communicated in terms of a monetary unit‚ such as the dollar. The financial
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Financial Statement Relationship Accounting and financial statements are the language of business. Financial statements provide information to help users such as managers and investors analyze accounting data to help make decisions‚ manage risk‚ and predict future outcomes. This week’s paper Team B will discuss how the statement interact with one another‚ how changing one affects other statements‚ and the importance to understand the relationship between the statements. Financial statements
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happiness. The meaning of Epicurus’ statement is that humanity’s decisions need to be inspired by the innate good of pleasure and should reflect a clear conscience. The first step is to comprehend the attractive pleasures that ease one’s soul and the negative indulgences one should avoid‚ which may diminish from it. When their foundation of what’s acceptable or not is formulated‚ one will make their own decisions from their unique basis on morality. From a “comparative measurement” one is able to access
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