completing a financial statement analysis of a publicly traded company and I have chosen to use Wal-Mart. I chose Wal-Mart because it is the only major company that is in my home town. There are a few small hardware stores but nothing as big as Wal-Mart. I also happen to enjoy going to Wal-Mart to do my food shopping and to get everyday household supplies. There is so much to learn about the financial aspects of a business through accounting. It is important to understand financial reports and how
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Basic Financial Statements Accountants‚ business owners‚ investors‚ creditors and employees use four basic financial statements of an organization to determine the financial well-being and future earnings potential of that organization. Financial statements are a key tool in seeing and understanding the past‚ present and future condition of an organization. What are these financial statements and what do they mean to the reader? Do the financial statements mean something completely different to
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Financial Statement Restatement Paper Justina Kabanuk University of Phoenix ACC/537 Financial Accounting Steven Hall July 5‚ 2010 Financial Statement Restatement Paper Financial statement users depend on accurate financial statements from
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Financial Statement Restatement Pape Financial Statement Restatement Paper It is well known that over the past decade the amount of errors being discovered within the financial statements of publically held companies has risen. One such error was announced by the internet sales company Overstock.com in early 2009. Due to an accounting error‚ partners of the company were under billed by $1.8 million dollars over the course of 2008. Overstock chose to record this entry incorrectly which falsely
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Chapter 4: Analysis of Financial Statements To keep this chapter from involving too much memorization‚ we provide our students with a formula sheet for use on exams. That makes a few of the questions trivially easy‚ but most require some thought‚ and some are downright challenging. Even the very easy ones make students think about the ratios. The challenging questions are labeled CHALLENGING‚ and most students will agree with that designation. Some of these questions are just definitions‚ but others
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Ratio analysis Debt ratio Debt ratio (2006-2007) = Total liabilities / Total assets = 10‚170/12‚064 = 0.84 Debt ratio (2007-2008) = 9‚210/11‚769 = Debt ratio (2008-2009) = 10‚003/11‚229 = Debt ratio (2009-2010) = 11‚043/12‚537 = Current ratio Current ratio (2006-2007) = Current assets / Current liabilities = 3‚424/4‚790 = 0.71 Current ratio (2007-2008) = 2‚164/4‚498 = Current ratio (2008-2009) = 1‚326/5‚389 = Current ratio (2009-2010) = 2‚697/6‚085 = Return on sales (ROS) Return on Sales
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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 costs‚ and excess capacity and exit barriers. 2. Threat of new entrants New entrants can force firms to set prices to keep industry profits low. The threat of new entrants can be eased by economies of scale‚ the first mover
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PROFITABILITY RATIOS RETURN ON INVESTMENT (ROI): The prime objective of making investments in any business is to obtain satisfactory return on capital invested. Hence‚ the return on capital employed is used as a measure of success of a business in realizing this objective. Return on Investment establishes the relationship between the profit and the capital employed. It indicates the percentage of return on capital employed in the business and it can be used to show the overall profitability
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University of Phoenix Material- Financial Statement Review of WalMart 2014 What is the net income for the current fiscal year? Is it up or down from the prior year? Why would this information be important to investors? The net income of the company for the current fiscal year is $26‚872 million. This year net income has decreased from last year (2013) net income of $27‚725 million. The continuous increase in prior years shows the profitability in WalMart. The trend of increase in net income
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OIL & GAS SECTOR RATIO ANALYSIS CONTENTS PARTICULARS PAGE No. 1. Introduction 3 2. Objective 5 3. Ratio Analysis 6 4. Appendix 8 INTRODUCTION The Oil & Gas industry is the totality of all of the industries involved in the production and sale of fuel‚ including fuel extraction‚ manufacturing‚ refining and distribution. Modern society consumes large amounts of fuel‚ and the energy industry is a crucial part of the infrastructure and
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