4-1 4 Income Statement Usefulness Predicting future performance. 4-2 Evaluate past performance. Help assess the risk or uncertainty of achieving future cash flows. Income Statement Limitations Companies omit items that cannot be measured reliably. 4-3 Income is affected by the accounting methods employed. Income measurement involves judgment. Income Statement Quality of Earnings Companies have incentives to manage income to meet or
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Escareno Corporation has provided its contribution format income statement for June. The company produces and sells a single product. Sales (8‚400 units): ($) 764‚400 Variable expenses: ($) 445‚200 Contribution margin: ($) 319‚200 Fixed expenses: ($) 250‚900 Net operating income: ($) 68‚300 If the company sells 8‚200 units‚ its total contribution margin should be closest to: Merchandise with a sales price of $500 is sold on account with term 2/10‚ n/30. The journal entry to record the sale would
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TRUE-FALSE STATEMENTS 8. Closing entries are not needed if the business plans to continue operating in the future and issue financial statements each year. 9. The dividends account is closed to the Income Summary account in order to properly determine net income (or loss) for the period. 10. After closing entries have been journalized and posted‚ all temporary accounts in the ledger should have zero balances. 11. Closing revenue and expense accounts to the
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Income statement The income statement or the profit and loss account as it is also called measures reports how much profit (wealth) has the business generated over a period of time. To measure profit the total generated revenue over a period must be identified. Revenue is a measure of inflow of economic benefits arising from the operations of the business. These benefits will either result in an increase of assets such as cash or amounts owed to the business by the customers or a decrease
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The Income Statement This indicates financial performance over a period of time. It is usually done at the end of a financial year (30th June)‚ but an income statement can be made up at other times‚ e.g.‚ if a business wishes to apply for a loan‚ the bank may ask for a more recent income statement. The other names for this kind of statement are Revenue Statement and Profit and Loss Statement. Income Statement for Ima Mess‚ year ended 30.6.12 |
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John Tierney Case study 8 11/2/2013 1) As a late mover into the US intercity bus market‚ what advantages and disadvantages does Megabus have? Megabus being a late mover in the US‚ has allowed the company to learn from past mistakes by companies such as Greyhound‚ who filed for bankruptcy in the mid 90’s and who lost most of it’s business due to poorly maintained terminals‚ high prices for fares and unsafe conditions. Megabus’s advantages include fares as lows as 1 dollar‚ free wi-fi
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Company G Comparative Income Statements December 31‚ Years 12 and 11 Year 12 #N/A #N/A #N/A Year 11 123‚708‚000 86‚409‚000 37‚299‚000 25‚827‚000 222000 2‚316‚000 28‚365‚000 #N/A 23‚478‚000 267000 2‚163‚000 25‚908‚000 11‚391‚000 2‚349‚000 -45‚000 153‚000 2‚457‚000 2‚261‚231 10.01% -16.85% 7.07% 9.48% 19.85% 183000 384000 -201000 #N/A 117000 366000 -249000 11‚142‚000 66‚000 18‚000 48‚000 2‚309‚231 66.41% 4.92% -19.28% 20.73% 5‚052‚000 #N/A 4‚419‚000 6‚723‚000 633‚000 1‚676‚231 14.32% 24
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For the student’s convenience‚ the following material has been adapted‚ with permission‚ from Walt Disney Company’s Sleeping Beauty Bonds – Duration Analysis‚ Harvard Business School Case 9-294-083‚ Rev. July 13‚ 2000. Copyright © 1994 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. 1. What are the cash payments associated with the Sleeping Beauties? Who gets how much and when‚ per $100 of bonds issued? 2. What interest rate was used to calculate the price? 3. Next day‚ market yield
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Oprah Winfrey Thesis: Oprah Winfrey became a household name because she is tenacious‚ charitable‚ and inspiring. Oprah Winfrey was born on January 29‚ 1954 in Kosciusko‚ Mississippi. Her mother was eighteen years old‚ single‚ and not ready to be a parent. Once Oprah was four years old‚ her mother moved to Milwaukee and left Oprah with her grandmother. They were extremely poor and lived on a farm‚ but Oprah was a highly intelligent child and did well in school. Her grandmother taught her to read when
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the bottom line of their income statement and is a measure of the firm’s income over a given period of time. The cash flow of a firm shows how a firm has used the cash it earned during a set of time. There are two reasons that the income statement does not show the amount of cash earned. One‚ there are non-cash entries on the income statement and second‚ there are certain uses such as a purchase of a building that are not reported on the income statement. The statement of cash flows utilizes the
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