Case #33 California Pizza Kitchen Synopsis and Objectives This case examines the question of financial leverage at California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) in July 2007. With a highly profitable business and an aversion to debt‚ CPK management is considering a debt-financed stock buyback program. The case is intended to provide an introduction to the Modigliani-Miller capital structure irrelevance propositions and the concept of debt tax shields. With the background of a pizza company‚ the case provides
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DOES THE “MANAGEMENT APPROACH” CONTRIBUTE TO SEGMENT REPORTING TRANSPARENCY? Advanced Accounting ACC 610 January 4TH‚ 2010 1. INTRODUCTION: An operating Segment is a component of an entity that may earn revenues or incur expenses‚ whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the chief operating decision maker (COMD) and for which discrete financial information is available. Generally‚ financial information is required to be reported on the basis that it is used internally for evaluating
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strong indication that there are separate entities at work. Hirschy & Wilkinson (2009) point out that due to variations in reporting requirements of each state‚ data is not available every year. As each state expands legislation like Arizona has‚ there is an obvious change in data that could be used for research in order to evaluate the overall effectiveness of mandatory reporting. Even more surprising is the fact that not all states mandate the same criteria for specified reporters or offer varying
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REPORT OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT KITCHEN MADE PIES I. PROBLEM STATEMENT • How will the company cope up with the stagnant sales of Kitchen Made Pies? • How will the company reduce the production cost of Kitchen Made Pies and still maintain the quality of its products? • Does purchasing new equipment really necessary for the operation and how will it be financed? Does borrowings in the bank beneficial for the company? • Should Kitchen Made Pies limit the numbers of
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Example 2.1 Recognition of an asset Entity X enters into a legal arrangement to act as trustee for entity Y by holding listed shares on entity Y’s behalf. Entity Y makes all investment decisions and entity X will act according to entity Y’s instructions. Entity X will earn a trustee fee for holding the shares. Any dividends or profit/(loss) from the investments belong to entity Y. Elements of financial statementsThe elements of financial statements 53 Entity X should not recognise the listed shares
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ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION SHEET Course Title: BSC (Hons) in Accounting and Finance Module Title: CORPORATE REPORTING Team Members: 1. LEE KEE TAR‚ UB: 11034518 2. JULIANA BTE ABDUL RAHMAN‚ UB: 11034517 3. VITHIA SUBRAMANIAM‚ UB: 11034521 4. ANG MING LIANG‚ UB: 12038344 Title: SEGMENT DISCLOSURE ARE WIDELY REGARDED AS SOME OF THE MOST USEFUL DISCLOSURE IN FINANCIAL REPORTS BECAUSE OF THE EXTENT TO WHICH THEY DISAGGREGATE FINANCIAL IMFORMATION
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Public Sector Objective The objective of this Standard is to establish principles for reporting financial information by segments. The disclosure of this information will: (a) help users of the financial statements to better understand the entity’s past performance and to identify the resources allocated to support the major activities of the entity; and (b) enhance the transparency of financial reporting and enable the entity to better discharge its accountability obligations. Definition
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For the exclusive use of M. Hossain rP os t HKU948 SAY GOO op yo KITCHEN BEST: ETHICS WHEN DOING CROSSBOUNDARY BUSINESS IN SOUTHERN CHINA I believe you need to set big goals that challenge people to get big results. - Henry Chan‚ chief executive‚ Kitchen Best tC Kitchen Best Appliance Co. Ltd was a home electrical appliances company based in Hong Kong with its own manufacturing plant in Guangdong province. The company was founded by Hong Kong businessman Chan Dong-hwa. In 2008‚ Chan handed
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Investigative Reporting In the seventeenth century the puritans lived through relationships‚ religion‚ community‚ discipline and punishment in a way that would bring honor and glory to God. In The Scarlet Letter‚ the puritans of seventeenth century Boston society were a fate driven religious group that would not accept sin of any kind without punishment. The type of punishment they would use the most was that of public humiliation and to be taunted by the community around the one who committed the
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Discuss the effect of the Statement of Principles for Financial Reporting on current UK financial reporting practice. The ASC was set up in the 1970’s‚ where at the time there was no clear statement of accounting principles‚ accept that the accounts should be prudent; consistent; follow the accrual accounting procedures and be based on the assumption that the entity would remain a going concern. Up until 1990 standards were set by the ASC; a body made up of six professional accounting bodies
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