Financial Reporting‚ Analysis and Ethics: A Comparative Analysis of Overstock.com and Amazon Robert Baird BU7545 Fall 2011 Financial Reporting‚ Analysis and Ethics: A Comparative Analysis of Overstock.com and Amazon Robert Baird BU7545 Fall 2011 Table of Contents | | | Executive Summary | 2 | | | Company and Industry Information | 3 | | | Accounting Issues | 6 | | | Accounting Policies and Disclosure Practices | 9 | | | Financial Statement Analysis |
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environment can classifies in two categories that are internal environment and external environment. Internal factors close to the company that have a direct impact on the organizations strategy‚ these factors include employee‚ customer‚ suppliers‚ shareholder‚ banker etc. External environment comprises those factors and trends outside the organization that might have an influence upon an organization and its future. Many external factors can have an effect upon an organization - from changes in government
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| Identify the key actors and forces in the company’s marketing environment that affect its ability to serve its target customers effectively.The marketing environment can be defined as everything that surrounds an organization’s environment and can affect its operation.The business environment consists of the actors and forces that affect an organization’s ability to develop and maintain business with its targeted customers. These are the Micro Environment‚ the Macro environment and the internal
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1.16 ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT The economic environment constitutes to economic conditions‚ economic polices‚ and the economic system that is important to external factors of business. The economic conditions of the country include: • Nature of the economy of the country. • The general economic situation in the region‚ conditions in resource markets like money‚ material‚ market raw material components‚ services‚ supply markets and so on which influence the supply of inputs to the organisation‚
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North America (Watson‚ 2011); and in 2012 in the UK‚ it received top customer satisfaction marks (Deatsch‚ 2012). PESTEL framework is used to analyze external environment and the issues facing Amazon. Firstly‚ politics highlights the role of governments. Actually‚ government policies could be considered as a double-edged sword. For Amazon‚ it has been benefitted from the UK government’s e-commerce promoting policy on one hand (BBC News‚ 1999)‚ and its prices and span were affected by Massachusetts
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What role did the accounting profession play in the recent subprime mortgage crisis? What could they have done differently? An independent auditor has a duty is to: identify‚ measure‚ and communicate financial information about an entity for decision making purposes. They are also responsible for generating the financial statements/reports for an organization. (Marshall‚ McManus‚ Viele‚ 2008) The subprime mortgage crisis is the result of contract laws allowing lenders the securitization of subprime
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duping the auditors. As for analytical procedures performed‚ this can be a problem at times because sometimes there is a lack of comparability among companies and there can also be an inability to obtain current industry data. Question 3: In testimony before Congress‚ George Greenspan reported that one means he used to audit the insurance restoration contracts was to verify that his client actually received payment on those jobs. How can such apparently reliable evidence lead an auditor to an improper
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Communications Between Predecessor and Successor Auditors 155 AU Section 315 Communications Between Predecessor and Successor Auditors (Supersedes SAS No. 7.) Source: SAS No. 84; SAS No. 93. Effective with respect to acceptance of an engagement after March 31‚ 1998‚ unless otherwise indicated. Introduction .01 This section provides guidance on communications between predecessor and successor auditors when a change of auditors is in process or has taken place. It also provides communications
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Company’s External Environment (External) Key economic and industry variables: Industry analysis (provide data to support): a. Industry size: b. Segmentation – geographic and product: Abercrombie and Fitch Co. started their business at West Cost of United State‚ because of the West Cost Mountains‚ camping gears and sporting goods were main products. However‚ under new management‚ A&F Co. opened a store on Beverly Hills‚ California. A&F Co. to aim rich‚ fitted‚ attractive‚ provocative
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ILP II: The Incorporation of the Benchmarking Technique on Amazon BUSI 601 Liberty University 1 May 2015 Rationale Benchmarking encompasses evaluation of other company’s business processes and embracing them to improve performance‚ search for innovative ideas‚ and gain a competitive advantage. Benchmarking establishes a rational method for setting performance goals‚ and gaining market leadership and a broader‚ more accurate organizational management perspective. The process is according
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