EM6602 Accounting for Decision-Making and Control Microsoft’s Financial Reporting Strategy (HBR 9-100-027) Team Members Toh Wei Hong‚ Prashant Trivedi‚ Preethy Varadarajan Question 1 The difference between Microsoft’s market value and book value is primarily due to unrecorded intangible assets such as brand value‚ customer loyalty‚ human capital‚ and commercial advantages such as long-term contracts and market dominance. These intangible assets confer Microsoft a tremendous edge over its
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Lecture 1 – Corporate Financial Reporting and Revision LECTURE OUTLINE Outline the nature and characteristics of companies Describe the sources of corporate financial reporting in Australia Identify which entities need to prepare financial reports that comply with accounting standards Account for share issues and dividends Account for asset revaluations and asset impairment Nature of Companies Type of organization established under the cooperation’s act 2001 Legal capacity and powers
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Microsoft’s Financial Reporting Strategy Q1. What are the factors that likely explain the equity and its reported book value of equity? Question 1 2 3 4 5 6 1999 Market Capitalisation: USD 460 Billion Book Value: USD 28 Billion MVE more than 16 times of BVE! Factor 1 Question 1 2 3 4 5 6 Intangible Assets • BVE does not reflect certain intangible assets’ value such as brand‚ customer loyalty‚ and human capital – Likely to provide tremendous earnings growth
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Fraudulent Financial Reporting Schemes Abstract Routine examinations‚ audits‚ or internal control procedures‚ do not reveal most accounting fraud. Only 20% is revealed by way of auditing‚ however whistle blowing accounts for most revealed accounting fraud. Financial statement fraud will usually occur in such schemes as: fictitious revenues‚ timing differences‚ concealed liabilities & expense‚ improper asset valuation‚ or asset/revenue overstatements (just to name a few)‚ (Frempong‚ 2012)
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Financial Reporting Problem Part 1 XACC/290 Kathleen Downey Brittany Baker Amazon became a publically traded company in October 1995. In 1996‚ it was reincorporated in Delaware. Amazon issued its initial public offering of stock on May 15‚ 1997‚ trading under the NASDAQ stock exchange symbol AMZN‚ at a price of $18.00 per share in the U.S. ($1.50 after three stock splits in the late 1990s Wikipedia). Amazon’s initial business proposal was different they it did not expect to make
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Question 3: Frieda‚ an accounting student‚ states: “Strategy analysis seems to be an unnecessary detour in doing financial statement analysis. Why can’t we just get straight to the accounting issues? “Explain to Frieda why she might be wrong. Without strategy analysis‚ it is impossible to identify what drive profits and what are key risks. Moreover‚ assessing firm’s current performance and doing realistic forecasts of future performance are also directly linked with firm’s strategy. Three important
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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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Survey questions and result These are the result of the survey that was enacted by us to prove and support our topic. We asked the students which between public and private infrastructure is greater in number here in the Philippines. Out of 20 respondents‚ 12 answered that it is public infrastructures and 8 said that private inrastructures are greater in number. According to our survey ‚ majority of the respondents say that public infrastructures are greater in number than private infrastructures
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Interpreting Financial Statements An important factor to the success of a small business is understanding financial statements. Financial statements are very important and critical to a business’ journey to economic success. According to Edmonds‚ Olds & Tsay‚ (2008)‚ when used properly‚ financial statements can act as a basis of information for business valuation. Another important and useful indicator when determining a business’ performance and financial situation are financial ratios. Financial
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Business Unit 10: Financial Accounting and Financial Reporting Student name Assessor name Date issued Completion date Submitted on 28/03/15 09/05/15 Assignment title Presentation of financial information and Interpretation of Financial Statements (2 of 2) Learning Outcome Learning outcome Assessment Criteria In this assessment you will have the opportunity to present evidence that shows you are able to: Task no. Evidence (Page no) LO3 Be able to present financial information in accepted
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