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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INSTITUTE OF ACCOUNTANCY ARUSHA RESEARCH REPORT ON THE ROLE OF FINANCIAL REPORTS IN DECISION MAKING A CASE STUDY OF; THE MINISTRY OF INFRASTRUCTURES DEVELOPMENT BY: MANS’S SON ADA III 2006/2007 SUPERVISOR: MR G. PETERSON A RESEARCH REPORT TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE INSTITUTE OF ACCOUNTANCY ARUSHA AS A PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE AWARD OF ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN ACCOUNTANCY (ADA) CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM The primary
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Purpose of the main financial statements Throughout the existence of a business many requests will be made for its financial statements. Financial statements are formal presentations of the flow of money into‚ through and out of a business. Financial statements are comprised of three main areas: balance sheets‚ income (profit and loss) statements and cash flow statements. Each area of a financial statement has its own purpose and provides specific information about a company’s financial stability (unknown
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Financial Statements Review Health Care Financial Accounting-HCS/405 May 4‚ 2015 Facilitator Introduction It is essential in any business‚ not just health care to understand how finances directly affect the growth‚ success and longevity of the business and all its parts. To truly understand how finance affects business it is important to gain knowledge and understanding of how the business generate revenue ‚the cash flow of money that comes into the business‚ how bills are paid and money leaves
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APPLE COMPUTER COMPANY Financial Statement Analysis Project Table of Contents Part I ……………………………………………………………3 Part II …………………………………………………………...5 Part III …………………………………………………………..6 Part IV …………………………………………………………..7 Part V ……………………………………………………….......8 Part VI ………………………………………………………….10 Part VII …………………………………………………………11 Appendices …………………………………………………......12 Appendices AAPL 5 Year Balance Sheet Report…………………………………….12 5 Year Income Statement………………………………………...13 5 Year Cash Flow
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Apple was formed in 1976 by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. After some disastrous losses in the 1980’s and 1990’s to their main competitor‚ IBM‚ Apple was able to re-invent the entire company. When Jobs returned to Apple in 1996‚ he took an expanded role and not only continually pushed for innovative ideas and products but also compelled several structural changes. Jobs also got rid of profitless divisions and departments. Apple has been able to gain market share quicker
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are various forces that inform the performance of a firm and various acronyms used to denote them. In this discussion we will employ the PESTEL acronym which constitutes of the political‚ economic‚ socio-cultural‚ technological‚ environmental (ecological) and legal forces surrounding the firm as outlined by . We will look into these in detail below: Political environment The political environment under which a firm operates has key impact on the performance of a firm. Political issues that touch
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liquidity‚ five (5) financial leverage‚ six (6) turnover and four (4) profitability ratios for all the years as per example 3.5 in the PowerPoint presentations. Liquidity; Current ratio=current assets/current liabilities 2010:29021/19483=1.49 2011:24245/18960=1.28 Quick ratio= (current assets- inventories)/current liabilities 2010: (29021-1301)/19483=1.42 2011: (24245-1051)/18960=1.22 Cash ratio=cash/current liabilities 2010:13913/19483=0.71 2011:10635/18960=0.56 Financial leverage; Total
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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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MoGen On January 10‚ 2006 the managing director of Merrill Lynch’s Equity- Linked Capital markets Group‚ Dar Maanavi‚ was reviewing the final drafts of a proposal for a convertible debt offering by MoGen‚ Inc. As a leading biotechnology company in the United States‚ MoGen had become an important client for Merrill Lynch over the years. In fact‚ if this deal were to be approved by MoGen at $5billion‚ it would represent Merrill Lynch’s third financing for MoGen in four years with proceeds raised
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