a) Five Users of Company Financial Statements There are various internal and external users of company financial statements. Internal users include employees‚ directors and shareholders‚ while external users include the government‚ the public‚ suppliers and creditors. 1. Investors Both current and potential shareholders/investors are the providers of capital in a company. They are interested in information that will help them determine whether to invest in the company. They are comparing different
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Owners • Owners are typically the most interested user of financial statements. Not only do owners have an interest in profits‚ but also in the amount of money they retain for personal income. This information comes from the income statement. Owners want to know how much capital the business consumed in order to generate sales revenue. Lenders • Lenders have an interest in both a company’s profit and cash flow. These users may have given loans to the business. Companies with an inability to repay
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Conclusion This Project has been very useful to me because I learned how to prepare cash flow statements and ratio analysis. This has improved my knowledge on financial statements which is very useful in business and commerce ever day. The work I did in this project has helped me to understand the techniques‚ applications and usefulness of financial statements to understand the performance of a particular company or enterprise without much difficulty and also understand how to prepare them in future
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Financial Statement Review University of Phoenix ACC/561 Financial Statement Review Introduction Financial statements play a significant role in each and every type of business. The financial statements provide a wealth of information to auditors‚ creditors‚ investors‚ suppliers and other important venues that need access to this type of information. This paper will discuss four different types of financial statements and how they are utilized by vendors‚ creditors and others
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Financial Statement Analysis On the following paper I will be computing‚ analyzing the following ratios: Earnings per share‚ return on assets‚ Current ratio‚ Times interest earned‚ Asset turnover‚ Debt to total assets‚ Current cash debt coverage‚ and Free cash‚ for the years 2002‚ 2003‚ and Landry ’s Restaurant Financial performance for those 2 years. By computing the ratios it will give us a better understanding on the overall Landry ’s Restaurant ’s financial performance for the years 2002‚
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ASSESSING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 1 Assessing Financial Statements Kimberly Adcock ACC/230 December 4‚ 201\4 Cynthia Kacmar ASSESSING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2 The company that I have chosen to
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Financial Statements Paper There are for basic financial statements in accounting. Each one of these statements has their one nook within a company either negative or positive. The four are; the balance sheet‚ the income statement‚ the statement of retained earnings‚ and the statement of cash flows. I will discuss the how each is useful to both external and internal users. In the conclusion of this paper you will also understand the importance of each of these as well
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Material Financial Statement Review What is the net income for the current fiscal year? Is it up or down from the prior year? Why would this information be important to investors? For FY15 the total consolidated income for Walmart is $17‚099 million. In FY14 Walmart recorded a loss from FY13‚ but is showing an increase with $16‚695 million in FY14 to FY15. Page 38 of the Annual Financial Report shows these figures along with many other figures. Investors look at the Annual Financial Report to
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parties that may ultimately rely on the client’s financial statements? Should auditors insist that audit engagement letters identify the third parties to whom the client intends to distribute the audited financial statements? Would this practice eliminate auditors’ legal liability to nonprivity parties not mentioned in engagement letters? During an audit it is the auditors responsibility to give their opinion on a company’s financial statements to its shareholders. However‚ the main purpose of
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FINAL PAPER: Axia College HHS 265 Analyzing Financial Statements Part I Using Appendix B‚ calculate the following ratios: Current ratio Year 2002 2003 2004 Current ratio 104‚296÷139‚017 = 0.75 82‚058 ÷ 93‚975 = 0.87 302‚902÷337‚033 = 0.90 Long-term solvency ratio Year 2002 2003 2004 Long-term solvency ratio 391‚270÷310‚246 = 1.26 359‚863÷259‚979 = 1.38 699‚004÷338‚937 = 2.06 Contribution ratio Year 2002 2003 2004 Contribution ratio 617‚169÷1‚165‚065 = 0
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