BUSINESS STRATEGIES An organisation’s business model is and is consisted in the essence of its existence. In the globalised environment of a market economy‚ it is fundamental that management leads the organisation in defining and designing an approach to the future that is tailored to and complements the organisation’s profile‚ exploring creative possibilities that can leverage organisational uniqueness and ensuring alignment of “strategic intent” and “strategic mission” to keep stakeholders interested
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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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Wal-Mart Wal-Mart Stores Inc. also known as Wal-Mart is a multinational retailer corporation based in America. The corporation runs massive stores discount departments and warehouse stores chain. The corporation is listed to be the third largest public corporation in the world by Fortune magazine. With over two million employees around the world it makes the corporation to be the biggest private employer. Sam Walton was the founder of Wal-Mart in 1962 and the corporation has remain a family tradition
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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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assets and liabilities in its own financial records. Therefore‚ the consolidation process is unnecessary since there would be no records of Marvel to consolidate. If Marvel continues to exist as a separate legal entity (an acquisition)‚ Disney will then record the investment in Marvel in its own financial records. The investment account will be replaced by the goodwill and Marvel’s assets and liabilities during the consolidation process. To note that the financial statements issued by Disney will
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Outline: I. Introduction II. Finance statement analysis 1. Common-size 1.1 Balance sheet 1.2 Income statement 2. Financial ratio analysis 2.1 Liquidity ratio 2.2 Efficiency ratio 2.3 Leverage ratio 2.4 Profitability ratio 3. DuPont analysis 4. Cash flow analysis III. Conclusion IV. References I. INTRODUCTION Apple Inc.‚ formerly Apple Computer‚ Inc.‚ is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino‚ California that designs‚ develops‚ and sells consumer electronics
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Question: 01 What are the three types of activities reported in cash flow statements? Explain. Answer: The statement of Cash Flow is one of the basic financial statements for a business. It reports a company’s major cash income and outflow for a period. Cash flows are classified as operating‚ investing‚ or financing activities on the statement of cash flows‚ depending on the nature of the transaction. Cash Flows from Operating
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The Similarity and Difference between FASB & GASB Financial Reporting Saintania Bien-Aime Governmental/ Institutional Accounting: ACG4501 Keiser University April 15‚ 2012 Abstract The accounting and financial reporting standards are one of the source that profit businesses and governmental not-for-profit organizations‚ which has been created by the Accounting standards Board (FASB). However‚ accounting and financial reporting standards that apply for state and local governments in America
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framework for financial reporting Objectives 2.1 Why a conceptual framework? 2.2 IASB Framework for the Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements 2.2.1 The objective of financial statements 2.2.2 Stewardship as an objective of financial statements: the current debate 2.2.3 Underlying assumptions 2.2.4 A note on the ‘going concern’ assumption 2.2.5 Qualitative characteristics of financial reporting information 2.2.6 Constraints on financial reporting 2.3 Elements of financial statements
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Introduction The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is a statutory body under the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) Act 2001 and its purpose is to oversee the process of setting accounting & auditing standards. One of the many key roles of FRC includes the maintenance of independence functions of auditor by monitoring and assessing the overall adequacy of the procedures followed by the auditors and their compliance with auditor independence requirements (FRC 2011). It also
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