Financial Analysis and Interpretation | Kier Group Plc vs. Barratt Developments Plc | | This report is about the financial analysis and interpretation of two construction companies. Analysis and comparison is based upon 4 broad areas: financial performance‚ financial position‚ corporate governance and corporate social and environmental reporting. | | Mr Gajender‚ Student ID- 1025087 | 3/14/2013 | Word Count- 4‚116 | Table of Contents 1. Introduction4 1.1 Introduction to Companies4
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Appendix A 2011 Financial Report Financial Review Pfizer Inc. and Subsidiary Companies INTRODUCTION Our Financial Review is provided to assist readers in understanding the results of operations‚ financial condition and cash flows of Pfizer Inc. (the Company). It should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. The discussion in this Financial Review contains forward-looking statements that involve substantial risks and
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3101AFE TUTORIAL 2 - Semester 2 2013 Deegan Topics 2 and 3: The financial reporting environment and Regulation of financial accounting 2.1 What expectations do accounting standard-setters have about the accounting knowledge of financial statement readers? Accounting standard-setters have an expectation that the readers of general purpose financial reports have a ‘reasonable knowledge’ of accounting. Specifically‚ the IASB Framework states that ‘users are expected to have a
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I am submitting my credentials for admission to the Ph.D. program in Organizational Behavior at Purdue University because I want to pursue a career in teaching and organizational consulting. To be more specific‚ I am interested in studying the factors that influence employee motivation‚ employee productivity in different environments and the effects of layoffs on employee motivation. In order to better understand these issues‚ it is extremely essential for me to have a strong command of various
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Moffitt‚ PhD Course Name: ACCT 3001 v1.0 (Section 3) Module 1: Financial Accounting & Accounting Standards 1. Differentiate broadly between financial accounting and managerial accounting. -Financial accounting measures‚ classifies‚ and summarizes in report from those activities and that information which relate to the enterprise as a whole for use by parties both internal and external to a business enterprise. Managerial accounting also measures‚ classifies‚ and summarizes in report form enterprise
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Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory Vol. 30‚ No. 2 May 2011 pp. 19–50 American Accounting Association DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-50009 Financial Statement Fraud Detection: An Analysis of Statistical and Machine Learning Algorithms Johan Perols SUMMARY: This study compares the performance of six popular statistical and machine learning models in detecting financial statement fraud under different assumptions of misclassification costs and ratios of fraud firms to nonfraud firms. The results show
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Management ACCT 551 Course Project Notes to Financial Statements Table of Contents I. Cover Page 1 II. Table of Contents Page 2 III. Tropical Pool Cleaning Income Statement Page 3 IV. Tropical Pool Cleaning Balance Sheet Page 4 V. Notes to Financial Statements Page 5 VI. Reference Page 9 Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements NOTE 1 SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES 1. Nature of Operations
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The Consolidated Statements of Earnings or the income statement tells financial statement users that there was a decrease in gross profit and net sales for the fiscal year 2008. The Consolidated Statements of Earnings show that the closing of underperforming stores‚ removal of new store openings from the pipeline‚ and staff reductions in many Home Depot projects resulted in $951 million in pretax charges. The difference profit and net sales is also a cause of fiscal year 2008 being 52 weeks and
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Abstract In this paper I will identify the four basic financial statements‚ discuss how they are interrelated with each other‚ and why they are useful to managers‚ investors‚ creditors‚ and employees. BALANCE SHEET A balance sheet provides detailed information about a company’s assets‚ liabilities and shareholders’ equity. Assets are things that a company owns that have value. This usually means they can either be sold or used by the company to make products or provide services that can be
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE I am applying to the graduate program at Columbia University to study American art with Elizabeth Hutchinson. In particular‚ I am interested in aspects of late nineteenth- and twentiethcentury American art and culture in relation to the emergence of consumerism and capitalist art markets as well as to the formation of discourses on gender and sexuality. My decision to apply to Columbia is based on the belief that your program provides the optimal environment for me to
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