IntroductionFinancial statements are prepared to summarize the end-result of all the business activities by an enterprise during an accounting period in monetary terms. These business activities vary from one enterprise to other. To compare the financial statements of various reporting enterprises poses some difficulties because of the divergence in the methods and principles adopted by these enterprises in preparing their financial statements. In order to make these methods and principles uniform
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Eighth Edition Fundamental Financial Accounting Concepts Thomas P. Edmonds University of Alabama–Birmingham Frances M. McNair Mississippi State University Philip R. Olds Virginia Commonwealth University Edward E. Milam Mississippi State University (Contributing Author) FUNDAMENTAL FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS Published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin‚ a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc.‚ 1221 Avenue of the Americas‚ New York‚ NY‚ 10020. Copyright © 2013‚ 2011‚ 2008‚ 2006
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Module 3 Accounting Adjustments and Constructing Financial Statements DISCUSSION QUESTIONS Q3-1. The fiscal year is the annual accounting period that a firm adopts. A firm that uses December 31 as its year-end is on a calendar-year basis. Traditionally‚ fiscal years that end in January through the end of May‚ are labeled as the prior calendar year. For example‚ a fiscal year ending January 31‚ 2010 would be labeled fiscal 2009 because the bulk of the operations occurred in calendar 2009
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Chapter 3 continued... Every acct on adj trial bal is used only once in creating first 3 financial stmts. Point of closing is to bring RE up to date - in doing that‚ we zero out temp accts. 4 kinds of closing entries: 1) close out Revenue - debit Rev CR Income Summ (normal credit bal) (only exists long enough for closing entries) - companies may be closing hundreds of rev or exp accts 2) close out Expense accts - list every single acct DR Income Summ CR Exp accts 3) DR Income Summ
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x + 11 = longer piece’s lenght Solution: x + x +11 = 75 2x = 75 – 11 2x = 64 2x = 64 2 2 x = 32 x + 11 = 32 + 11 = 43 2. Find the dimensions of a rectangle where the altitude is four seventh of of the base and the perimeter is 330 feet. Let x = length of the base x = length of the altitude since the perimeter = 300 Solution: 330 = 2x + 2 ( x)
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Financial Management Chapter 3 What is the receivables turnover? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places (e.g.‚ 32.16).) | Receivables turnover | times | Requirement 2: | The days’ sales in receivables? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places (e.g.‚ 32.16).) | Days’ sales in receivables | days | Requirement 3: | How long did it take on average for credit customers to pay off their accounts during the past year? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places (e.g.‚ 32.16)
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Chapter 4: E4-8‚ Instructions (a) Prepare a multiple-step income statement for 2012. Assume that 60‚000 shares of common stock are outstanding. Brokaw Corp Income Statement For The Year Ended December 31‚ 2012 Sales Revenue Net Sales $1‚200‚000 Cost of Goods Sold 780‚000 Gross Profit 420‚000 Operating Expenses Selling Expenses $65‚000 Administration Expenses $48‚000 113‚000 Income from operations
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CHAPTER 3 Arbitrage and Financial Decision Making Chapter Synopsis 3.1 Valuing Decisions When considering an investment opportunity‚ a financial manager must systematically compare the costs and benefits associated with the project in order to determine whether it is worthwhile. Determining the cash value today of the costs and benefits is one way to make such a comparison. In a competitive market‚ a good can be bought and sold at the same price‚ so the market price can be used to determine
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Solutions – Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Financial Analysis Question 1. Which of the following types of firms do you expect to have particularly high or low asset turnover? Explain why. Supermarket—High asset turnover. Supermarkets tend to be high volume businesses. Many of the food products in supermarkets are perishable‚ and freshness is often used to differentiate products‚ forcing a certain amount of inventories turnover. The typical consumer buys groceries on a regular basis‚ guaranteeing grocery
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Concepts of Throughput Accounting In 1890s when cost accounting was introduced‚ labour was the greatest fraction of manufactured cost and considered as a variable cost. Very often workers did not know about the actual time of hours that they have to perform in a week when they reported for duty since the systems of time-keeping were undeveloped. Here comes the importance of throughput accounting which removes the dependence of standard cost accounting on efficiencies‚ particularly the
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