MPORTANCE OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC Importance of financial statement is not what anyone can just keep aside without feeling the heat. A financial statement is very important in every society as many economic and financial decisions are made based on it. WHAT ARE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS? Financial statements are those sets of accounts that every quoted company / incorporation is mandated by law to produce for the benefits of its shareholders and other stakeholders. Financial statements
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THE EFFECTS OF ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS ON FINANCIAL STATEMENT 5.1 ENTITY CONCEPT The first accounting concept is entity concept. These concept shows accounts are kept for entities and not the people who own or run the company. Even in proprietorships and partnerships‚ the accounts for the business must be kept separate from those of the owners. This is because what whatever amount the company owes to others is not the liabilities of the owners. The maximum amount that the owner is going to lose
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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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300 and America “Freedom isn’t free at all‚ that it comes with the highest of costs. The cost of blood.” These words were spoken by Queen Gorgo‚ wife of King Leonidas‚ in the movie 300. She speaks one of the basic philosophies of the Spartan nation‚ and even though they lived thousands of years ago‚ their principles still impact America today. Most influential movies are a product of the current events happening at the time‚ and 300 is not an exception. There was a distinct significance in the
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Examining Financial Statements - Landry ’s Restaurants Financial statement users around the globe use financial statements to evaluate the performance of companies (Fundamentals of Financial Accounting‚ 2006). In order to locate a company’s reported assets‚ liabilities‚ expenses and revenues‚ statement users rely on four types of financial statements. The four financial statements include: Balance Sheet‚ Income Statement‚ Statement of Retained Earnings‚ and Statement of Cash Flows (Fundamentals
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to the Financial Statements ------------------------------------------------- The purpose of this assignment is to increase your understanding of the information contained in a firm’s financial statements and of the relationship between the statements. As you study financial accounting‚ we will focus on using financial information in a meaningful way‚ to understand the firm’s past performance and project its future performance. One of the analytical tools that we will use is financial ratio
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Patton-Fuller Financial Statement Review Marlyn Aguirre Kristy Borowicz Carrie "Shellie" Cobbs Jessica Wilson Health Care Financial Accounting HCS 405 Robert Hammer November 05‚ 2013 Patton-Fuller Financial Statement Review Understanding how finance affects business is essential to the success and longevity of the business. How a business earns its income‚ raises money‚ and how a business pays its bills and invests in the businesses future affects the financial growth of the company. The process
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law to prepare and provide financial statements for each accounting period. This has been the case since the conception of The Companies Act 1948’ (Flint‚ 1982)‚ last amended in 1985. Although it’s been over 55 years of reporting entities preparing financial statements‚ the objective of these statements has always been a matter of discussion. The Accounting Standards Board (ASB) came up with a precise outline in 1999 which stated "The objective of financial statements is to provide information about
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Financial Statements The Role of Financial Statements in an Effective Market: Financial Statements are a company’s primary source of financial information. If you want to invest in a company and needed to know how to find out if a certain company is worth the investment you would take a look at the company’s financial statements. Simply put a financial statement is a declaration of what is believed to be true about a company‚ communicated in terms of a monetary unit‚ such as the dollar. The financial
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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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