sources of fund is known as cost of capital. Cost of capital is only minimum required rate of return to earn on investment and it is not the actual earning rate of the firm. Retained earnings‚ used as a part of the capital structure of a business firm‚ is that part of the earnings available to common shareholders not paid out as dividends or the earnings plowed back into the firm for growth. As such‚ their cost to the firm is an opportunity cost. In other words‚ they could have paid the money out as
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Parmalat It has been named as “Europe’s Enron” – the legend that took down Italy’s milk selling company Parmalat and its controlling executives‚ American banks‚ audit firms‚ even politicians and 130‚000 of its helpless small shareholders after the discovery in the year 2003 of the $14 Billion black hole in the company’s finances. The company’s fraud was uncovered when the company failed to pay the cash to the bondholders. Summary: This discovery led to eight years of court cases in Europe
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Enron a Case Study Enron‚ once known as the worldwide leader in energy trading‚ began as a natural gas pipeline company. “At its peak‚ Enron brokered up to 20 percent of America’s energy transactions. These included basic contracts to deliver natural gas from wells to pipelines for distribution to homes‚ contracts for the purchase of electrical power facility out port‚ and more complex financial contracts‚ which allowed power companies to manage price and market risk” (Ackman)
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Question I Give definition of earning management. Discuss in what instances is earnings managementacceptable and in what instances is it not acceptable. Before defining what earnings management is‚ it is important to understand the meaningof earnings first. Earnings are the profits of a company. Investors and analysts look to earningsto determine the attractiveness of a particular share. Companies with poor earnings prospectswill typically have lower share prices than those with good prospects
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Enron Case 10.8.2014 Melissa Becker Boya Du Sidi (Fiona) Chen Wei (David) Yu In June of 2001 Enron’s new CEO‚ Jeff Skilling‚ was heralded as the “No. 1 CEO in the entire country and Enron was saluted as “America’s most innovated company.”1 Just six months later‚ in December‚ Enron filed for bankruptcy. The failure shocked the public and angered investors. How could this have happened? Did no one see this coming? Where were the accountants? Where were the controls? Enron’s public troubles
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Enron case 1. What activities and practices of Enron’s management team do you believe were unethical and/ or illegal? Concealing debt By using SPEs‚ Enron’s balance sheet understated its liabilities and overstated its equity and earnings. Enron disclosed to its shareholders that it had hedged downside risk in its illiquid investments using special purpose entities which were lies. Enormous spending Extravagant expenses were rampant in the company which included enormous salary expenses
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| Quality management Individual Assessment | ID: 4088943 | | | | Word count: 2088 | Executive Summary This report deals with Benchmarking‚ Process Mapping and Continual Improvement Analysis of “iC Kiosk” and “Lacuna Cafe” which are both located on the Innovation Campus. It finds some problems in these stores in service efficiency‚ quality control of product and customer satisfaction‚ which are shown by fishbone charts and discussed. Then‚ it also offers possible
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Enron was once one of the world’s leading electricity‚ natural gas‚ pulp‚ paper and communications companies. However‚ in December 2‚ 2001‚ Enron suddenly filed for bankruptcy. During the ten years before Enron¡¦s went bankrupt‚ Enron¡¦s management had started transferring Enron¡¦s funding to personal accounts and made fake balance sheets‚ which provided investors information about how this company goes. (Gibney‚ 2005) These illegal actions‚ performed by certain individuals‚ finally led Enron to
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what? What would be my purpose thereafter?Therefore I think that I would never act rationally in such a world. | | What would Kant probably have said about Whitey Basson (or you) earning ZAR 620‚000‚000.00? | Based on what I understand about Kant’s theory‚ I would assume that he would have accepted the earnings. As Whitey Basson has not stolen from anyone‚ neither has he broken any rules. He did build the company into one of the most successful ventures of today. He invested his own time and
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stock is $50 per share in 2010. The options are exercisable for one share of Sakal’s common stock. Pancino’s and Sakal’s separate net incomes for the year are $100‚000 and $80‚000‚ respectively. Required: Compute the amount of basic and diluted earnings per share for Pancino (Consolidated) and Sakal Corporations. 2) Parker Corporation owns an 80% interest in Sample Corporation’s common stock. Throughout 2010‚ Sample had 10‚000 shares of common stock outstanding and Parker had 100‚000 shares
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