Chapter 1: Overview—The Financial Statements Chapter 1 introduces the four financial statements--Income Statement‚ Statement of Retained Earnings‚ Balance Sheet‚ and Statement of Cash Flows. Accounting as the language of business is discussed along with an introduction of the various users of accounting information. Financial and Managerial accounting are compared. The four ways to organize a business – proprietorship‚ partnership‚ limited – liability company‚ and corporation‚ are discussed
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Graduate School Theses and Dissertations Graduate School 6-1-2008 Detecting financial statement fraud: Three essays on fraud predictors‚ multi-classifier combination and fraud detection using data mining Johan L. Perols University of South Florida Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd Part of the American Studies Commons Scholar Commons Citation Perols‚ Johan L.‚ "Detecting financial statement fraud: Three essays on fraud predictors‚ multi-classifier combination and
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Financial Statement Analysis Through the analysis of three companies in different sectors‚ this paper will show some basic concepts‚ techniques‚ and conventions of financial accounting. The three different areas Team B covered include a manufacturing company (3M)‚ an IT service company (Fujitsu)‚ and a retail company (Publix). Team B used the information provided by these companies to calculate its main financial ratios‚ and compare those to the ratios common for the same industry and country
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ICBI 2010 - University of Kelaniya‚ Sri Lanka THE VALUE RELEVANCE OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS’ INFORMATION: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE LISTED COMPANIES IN COLOMBO STOCK EXCHANGE. W.V.A.D. Karunarathne Doctoral Candidate‚ Department of Government Economics‚ Huazhong Normal University‚ Wuhan‚ Hubei‚ P.R. China. anurawvadk@kln.ac.lk / anurawvadk@gmail.com R.M.D.A.P. Rajapakse Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies‚ University of Kelaniya‚ Sri Lanka. amilarajapakse@gmail.com . ABSTRACT Investors
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accountant to overlook certain financial figures from a balance sheet that may portray the business in a bad light to the public and investors. Omission may not seem like a significant breach of accounting ethics to an accountant because it does not encompass direct operation of numbers or records. This is specifically why an accountant must remain ethically cautious to circumvent falling into such a trap. Accountants need to be educated on what forms of financial statements frauds can be committed and
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funding for the expansion. Before granting the loan‚ the bank requires Opal to provide them with the audited financial statement. 2. Neon Pty Ltd (Neon) is in business for the last 15 years. It manufactures and distributes papers all over Australia. During the last five years Neon opened four new factories in three different locations using bank loan. Due to growth in the company‚ the financial director John Brown is keen to set up an internal audit division. At the moment the project appears to
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The Consolidated Statements of Earnings or the income statement tells financial statement users that there was a decrease in gross profit and net sales for the fiscal year 2008. The Consolidated Statements of Earnings show that the closing of underperforming stores‚ removal of new store openings from the pipeline‚ and staff reductions in many Home Depot projects resulted in $951 million in pretax charges. The difference profit and net sales is also a cause of fiscal year 2008 being 52 weeks and
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Financial statement analysis America Online‚ Inc. Case Study 1 1. Prior to 1995‚ why was America Online so successful in the commercial online industry relative to its competitors CompuServe and Prodigy? AOL offered a broad range of features including real-time talk‚ electronic mail‚ e-magazines and newspapers‚ online classes‚ shopping‚ and internet access. They also had software for the internet such as for production and distribution of original content‚ interactive marketing and
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The world is tremendously competitive now. In every sphere of life‚ business competition becomes more and more critical. So it is difficult to make business in these competitive markets. But accounting procedure is the most important part for any financial institution like bank. Banks are also the principal source of credit (loanable fund) for millions of individual & families & for many units of governments. Another contribution of bank make their willingness to accept risky loan from borrower‚ while
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Ratio and Financial Statement Analysis Table of Contents Executive Summary.................................................................................................3 1. Nike History.............................................................................................................4 2. Nike Market Share: SWOT Analysis.......................................................................5 3. Nike Financial Report................................
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