1. Why did regulators take a closer look at Demand Media’s accounting? Demand Media capitalizes the fees paid to freelance writers over five years instead of expensing the costs as incurred. Typically‚ web media companies expense content creation costs as incurred. Demand’s unorthodox approach to accounting for writer expenses as acquiring and amortizing intangible assets spreads Demand Media’s expenses over time and reduces its current losses on its income statement. Thus‚ Demand Media’s accounting
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1. Current Ratio = Current Assets / Current Liabilities Edison = 12‚800 / 3‚600 = 3.56 Stagg = 13‚800 / 3‚600 = 3.83 Thornton = 13‚800 / 3‚600 = 3.83 Quick Ratio = Quick Assets / Current Liabilities Edison = 11‚000 / 3‚600 = 3.05:1 Stagg = 10‚000 / 3‚600 = 2.78:1 Thornton
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Top of Form Ans to the Ques No:1 One of our main priorities‚ when selecting people for roles here‚ is to make sure they’ll fit in with our way of doing things. That’s why‚ when it comes to your application and every assessment and interview that follows‚ it’s vital that you show us more than just skills‚ experience or qualifications. We want to see that you’re an HSBC person before you join us. Let us explain what we mean. At HSBC‚ we’ve developed three core group values. They define
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do involve a detective in a moderate size city. Detective Malloy and his partner Detective Reed just completed a drug bust involving a large amount of stolen cash. Earlier in the day Detective Reed was discussing how is daughter had stage 2 cancer and that he was struggling financially to pay the hospital bills. This private hospital will only keep her as a patient if the bills are paid‚ otherwise she will be sent to a public hospital with a lower chance of success. As both Detective Malloy and Detective
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or as a private detective‚” Maureen Malone states in her article titled Skills for Being a Detective‚ “certain skills are critical to your success as a detective”(Chron.com). In many detective stories‚ you will find there are certain things the character needs to be able to do to be good at their job. Some examples that Malone listed in her article include critical thinking and problem solving‚ attention to detail‚ and written and oral communication skills. Almost all detectives‚ fictional or otherwise
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Detective Conan Important Episode List For the sake of those who might want to get into or try to convince a friend to get into Detective Conan for the story but find the insanely high episode count and history of nearly 2 decades daunting‚ I’ve compiled a list of episodes that are actually important as well as listed the reasons I believe them to be important (so you can make your own judgements as you go as to whether you yourself really think you should have to watch them or not). There are tons
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Introduction In 31st January 2008‚ Google Inc. announced its financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended 31st December 2007. CEO Eric Schmidt was very pleased with the performance of the Google in terms their core value‚ growing reputation‚ techniques to manage their operating expenses. The financial statement was on the GAAP financial measures that are most directly comparable to non-GAAP financial measures. The raising cost on R&D‚ sales & marketing‚ and general administrative
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3. Explain what the leverage effect consists of‚ relating it to the credit risk market development previous the crisis (see Exhibit 1 in “The financial crisis of 2007-2009: the road to systemic risk”) Leverage is the process of obtaining money with loans or financial instruments. This debt may be used to acquire assets or develop a project‚ financing its CAPEX and being payed later with the respective cashflows. And that is the point where risk enters: if the expected cashflows happen to be below
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(1) Calculate the firm’s financial ratios for 2007: Vanguard Group 2007 financial ratios 1. Current ratio = current assets/current liabilities = 718‚750/431‚250 = 1.67 2. Quick ratio= (current assets-inventory)/current liabilities = (718‚750-303‚750)/431‚250 = 0.96 3. Inventory turnover= cost of sales/average stock = 1‚362‚480/303‚750 =4.49 4. Average collection period= (average debtors/annual credit sales)×365 = (296‚250/1‚680‚000) ×365 = 64 days 5. Total asset turnover= annual sales/total assets
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INTRODUCTION Financial derivatives have crept into the nation ’s popular economic vocabulary on a wave of recent publicity about serious financial losses suffered by municipal governments‚ well-known corporations‚ banks and mutual funds that had invested in these products. Congress has held hearings on derivatives and financial commentators have spoken at length on the topic. Derivatives‚ however remain a type of financial instrument that few of us understand and fewer still fully appreciate‚ although
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