Financial Statements for Internal Reporting Purposes vs. Financial Statements for External Reporting Purposes It is common in most companies to maintain two set of financial statements; one being used/presented for internal reporting purposes and another for reporting externally. Internal reports are used primarily to aid management in the decision making process throughout the course of the business. These are subject to internal audit to make sure that all information reported are fair and correct
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Financial Reporting of the Coca Cola Company ACC/290 November 27‚ 2012 Financial Reporting of the Coca Cola Company When looking at a company’s financial statements‚ such as the Coca Cola Company‚ one piece of important information that should not be overlooked is the total current assets. Kimmel‚ Weygandt‚ and Kieso describe current assets as “assets that a company expects to convert to cash or use up within one year or its operating cycle‚ whichever is longer” (2009). The total current assets
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24/07/2013 Overview of ACCT2011 Institutional and Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting Week 1 Lecture Schedule of weekly topics › UoS Outline Assessment › Mid-semester test (7 Sep 2013) 40% 60% › Final exam (final exam period) ACCT2011 Financial Accounting A Dr Eagle Zhang › Please note: You must achieve at least 40% in the final exam to pass the unit AND get an overall mark of 50% or more. 1 4 Overview of ACCT 2011 1. Applying specific accounting standards: • interpreting
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Adley – Week1 DQ1 Follow up Reply Financial reporting fraud cases typically involve “fictitious revenues‚ overstatement if assets‚ capitalized expenditures‚ misappropriation of assets‚ premature revenues‚ and understatement of expenses and liabilities‚ “according to Lawyers Connect (n.d). As a result‚ such intentional misstatements are fraudulent and illegal‚ and most likely material. Manipulation of accounting equation‚ Assets = Liabilities + Stockholder’s Equity (Rich‚ et al.‚ 2012‚ p. 9)‚ characteristically
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answer is an original. Do not submit as is Case 1-4 Generally Accepted Accounting Principles At the completion of the Darby Department Store audit‚ the president asks about the meaning of the phrase “in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles‚” which appears in your audit report on the management’s financial statements. He observes that the meaning of the phrase must include more than what he thinks of as “principles.” Required: a. Explain the meaning of the term accounting principles
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Financial management decisions: 1. Capital budgeting (investment) – the whole process of analyzing projects and deciding whether they should be included in the capital budget. Spending capital on assets that will yield highest return for comp over desired time period What to buy so that comp will gain most value 2. Capital structure (financing) – the manner in which a firm’s assets are financed; that is‚ the right side of balance sheet. Capital structure is normally expressed as the percentage
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410 Instructor’s Manual Financial Accounting and Reporting Twelfth edition Barry Elliott Jamie Elliott For further instructor material please visit: www.pearsoned.co.uk/elliott-elliott ISBN: 978-0-273-71271-8 ( Pearson Education Limited 2008 Lecturers adopting the main text are permitted to download and photocopy the manual as required. [pic] Pearson Education Limited Edinburgh Gate Harlow Essex CM20 2JE England and Associated Companies
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Target Company Selection Process The target company we decided on for our financial analysis is General Electric. At first we were looking at Starbucks‚ as it is a rapidly growing multinational corporation‚ but after some research we discovered that the earnings per share growth of Starbucks is 40.2%. Therefore Starbucks did not meet the requirement set at 50% EPS growth to be considered a truly “rapidly growing company”. We then continued our research and were able to find that General Electric
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NAME: TETTEY DANIEL ID: 210IT01005369 BOOK: THE NECESSITY OF ETHICAL ABSOLUTES AUTHOR: ERWIN W. LUTZER‚ PUBLISHER: - ZONDERVAN PUBLISHING HOUSE COURSE: - CHRISTIAN BUSINESS ETHICS LECTURER: PASTOR A.Y.A. BRIANDT-COKER SECTION B READING REPORT ON THE NECESSITY OF ETHICAL ABSOLUTES Ethics can be properly understood only in light of the value placed upon the human species. Without adequate respect for human life‚ moral absolutes must disintegrate. No one can deny that moral valuations
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Financial Reporting Problem‚ Part I ACC/290 March 18‚ 2013 Tony Ames Financial Reporting Problem‚ Part I In today’s markets there are several factors that make up a public company and allow it to be desired by investors. * Total Current Assets: Previous Annual Reporting Period * * The total current assets at the end of the previous annual reporting period‚ December 31‚ 2011‚ was $22‚985‚000 in comparison to the most current year of 2012’s results of $22‚706‚000. Therefore
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