ENRON Enron shocked the world from being “America’s most innovative company” to America ’s biggest corporate bankruptcy at its time. At its peak‚ Enron was America ’s seventh largest corporation. Enron gave the illusion that it was a steady company with good revenue but that was not the case‚ a large part of Enron’s profits were made of paper. This was made possible by masterfully designed accounting and morally questionable acts by traders and executives. Deep debt and surfacing information about
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Accounting Irregularities at Groupon Introduction In September 23 2011‚ Groupon (the Company)‚ a rapidly growing online coupon merchant was forced by the SEC to file a restated S-1 registration statement. The reason for the restatement was that the SEC objected to the accounting methods that Groupon used in the calculation of its revenue‚ causing it to be overstated. According to Villanova University (2012)‚ Groupon’s auditors at Ernst & Young stated that Groupon was not setting aside sufficient
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SOLUTIONS TO CODIFICATION EXERCISES CE16-1 Master Glossary (a) The amount of earnings for the period available to each share of common stock outstanding during the reporting period. (b) A reduction in EPS resulting from the assumption that convertible securities were converted‚ that options or warrants were exercised‚ or that other shares were issued upon the satisfaction of certain conditions. (c) A security that gives the holder the right to purchase shares of common stock in accordance
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Running head: MCBRIDE FINANCIAL SERVICES GOVERNANCE EVALUATION McBride Financial Services Governance Evaluation McBride Financial Services Governance Evaluation This paper will introduce possible corporate governance problems that led up to the scandals in the early 21st century. McBride‚ an online mortgage financial services organization‚ might be allured by tempting‚ unethical practices if they choose not to accept a previously proposed solution to their organizations’
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Earnings per Share In its simplest form: EARNINGS or (Net Income available to Common Shareholders) # Of SHARES (Weighted average number of Common shares outstanding) THE NUMERATOR If a company has senior shares (usually preferred shares) in addition to common shares‚ not all of the net income is available to be paid out to common shareholders. If there are senior shares‚ the numerator is reduced by: 1. The current year’s dividend declared
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OVERVIEW Accounting is the language of business. As such‚ accountants collect and communicate economic information about business enterprises or other entities to a wide variety of persons. To be useful‚ financial statements must be clearly understandable and comparable so that users may compare the performance of one business with the performance of the same business for a prior period or with the performance of another similar business. Therefore‚ all general purpose financial statements should
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financial statements for each prior period presented to the same basis as the new accounting principle. 2) Adjusts the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities as of the beginning of the first year presented‚ plus the opening balance of retained earnings. 22-5 Changes in Accounting Principle E22-1 (Change in Principle—Long-Term Contracts): Cherokee Construction Company changed from the completed-contract to the percentage-of-completion method of accounting for long-term construction contracts
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SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY 1 Strategies to reduce E-waste produced by over consumption of electric and electronic devices As the population of the world increases rapidly‚ the rate of consumption of different materials is also increasing; therefore there is an associated increase in the production of waste. This over consumption of materials can be seen in many areas: waste of energy‚ natural resources and the trees used for the production of paper. One of the fastest growing examples of this type
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Introduction to Advanced Graduate Studies and Scholarship Details This course introduces students to the principal elements of research and scholarly writing. Learners explore approaches to synthesizing literature and the application of the major components of APA form and style‚ and learn to coordinate literature searches. Furthermore‚ they learn how to discern principal arguments‚ analyze research questions‚ and clearly identify the key scholarly attributes to journal articles and other sources
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relevance of quarterly F/S and the financial reporting process of companies that are not currently reviewed. Research indicates that reviews appear to reduce the deferral of adjustments to the fourth quarter‚ translating into potentially fewer restatements of interim and annual F/S. For auditors‚ mandatory interim reviews would shift certain work from year-end to earlier periods‚ thereby distributing audit effort. It would also save them time because problems that would not otherwise have been detected
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