The 3 Principal Financial Statements I. The balance Sheet Snapshot of the financial condition of a firm - Measured on a given date ASSETS = LIABILITIES + EQUITY • Assets : What you have - INVESTING - USES • Liabilities : What you owe - FINANCING – SOURCES a) Assets • An asset is a resource that has a potential future economic (i.e. generate future cash inflows or reduce future cash outflows). • An asset is recognized when: It is acquired in a past transaction or exchange The
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Financial Statement Analysis of IBM Financial Statement Analysis of IBM I. Company Facts IBM – International Business Machines Corporation The home office of IBM is located in Armonk‚ Town of North Castle‚ New York‚ United States. IBM was founded in 1911 as the Computing Tabulating Recording Company (CTR) through a merger of three companies: the Tabulating Machine Company‚ the International Time Recording Company‚ and the Computing Scale Company. CTR adopted the name International Business
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Tutorial Applicable to Week 2 CH2 Q2) What are the critical drivers of industry profitability? 1. Rivalry among existing firms The greater the degree of competition of firms in an industry‚ the lower their average. Existing firm rivalry is influenced by: industry growth rate‚ concentration and balance of competitors‚ degree of differentiation and switching costs‚ scale/learning economies (if your working at maximum productivity you can bring costs down) and the ratio of fixed to variable
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Financial Statement Analysis Company: Ford Motor Company Introduction: Ford Motor Company is majorly in the manufacturing business of automotive products and services business. Ford is also into the business of financing. The automotive and financial services are the two main segments of Ford. Their automotive operation includes Forth South America‚ Ford North America‚ Ford Asia Pacific Africa‚ Volvo and Ford Europe. The Ford Financial Services includes Ford Motor Credit Company. 1
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two-thirds of its stores offer drive-through pharmacies‚ and almost all offer one-hour photo processing. (Hoover’s Inc‚ 2007) Within the last 3 years Walgreen is growing by leaps and bounds. Some of the here are a few highlights and contributing factors to Walgreens growing success. In 2005 Walgreens opened its 5‚000th store in Richmond‚ Va. In 2006 Walgreens announced a new CEO (Jeffrey A. Rein). Walgreen also acquired Happy Harry’s drugstore chain‚ which added 76 stores to the growing number
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Introduction Red Bull is the largest producer of energy beverages‚ with a world market share of 40% (Yahoo Ltd‚ 2011). Its main competitors include “V” and Mother who compete with Red Bull in the mass market of energy drinks. This report will focus on a different number of aspects that will critically analyse Red Bull’s position in the market today. Covered in this report is the background of Red Bull and where they fit into the market‚ an analysis of their competitors‚ an analysis of the macro
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17/09/2013 Lecture 1: International Business and Globalisation Dr Lim Ngat Chin‚ Eunice‚ PhD Room ELG02‚ Block E (NEW WING –LOWER GROUND) Lim.Ngatchin@nottingham.edu.my Consultation hours: Mon 1300-1500; Tues 1030-1230; Fri 0900-1100 or appointment by email Session 1 content (IB) What is international business? What are the reasons for international business growth? What are the basic forms of international business activity? Summary 2 1 17/09/2013 What is
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Education Volume 6‚ 2009‚ 83-96 A FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS PROJECT FOR INTRODUCTORY FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING Marilyn B. Misch Business Administration Division Pepperdine University Malibu‚ California USA Carolyn A. Galantine Business Administration Division Pepperdine University Malibu‚ California USA ABSTRACT This paper describes a financial statement analysis project useful in both preparerbased and user-based introductory courses in financial accounting. The project requires students
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Executive Summary GAAP‚ generally accepted accounting principles‚ are the rules for preparing the financial statements. There are specialized professionals FASB‚ SEC‚ AAA‚ FEI‚ IMA‚ AIMR and others for developing GAAP. There are 13 principles for preparing Financial Statement. Business Entity Principle requires business to be separated from owner of the business. Going Concern principles requires the business to assume that the business will for long time. Revenue Recognition Principle considers
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Dear Fellow Shareholders‚ As you all know we recently started a new business‚ and here are some of the obstacles and challenges we encountered. The theme of this year’s annual report‚ “Bold Moves‚ Great Future‚” could also accurately describe our future. The Pump Up brand of energy drinks continued to gain market share up to date‚ and continues to exceed the growth in sales of the energy drink category. The energy drink category itself has continued to grow at an extremely high rate. Gross sales
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