GAAP v. non-GAAP: Impacts on Financial Statements A non-GAAP financial measure is a numerical measure of past or future financial performance‚ financial position or cash flows that includes amounts that are excluded from the most directly comparable GAAP measure or excludes amounts that are included in the most directly comparable GAAP measure. Some common examples of non-GAAP earnings measures are cash earnings‚ operating earnings‚ EBITDA and FFO. The non-GAAP numbers impact revenue numbers without
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l 1) "Standard setting is a political process ’. Explain and discuss. The essay is aim to explain why standard setting is a political process and discuss how political involvement affects the process of accounting standard setting. Accounting standard setting plays an important role in conveying users that how‚ when and where the financial information of a company is disclosed. Standards‚ particularly changes in standards‚ can have significant differential effects on companies‚ investors and
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Imagine a nation in which a single company is attempting to provide for the manufacture and distribution of all food. A nation in which food is being genetically-altered by a company; not to mention is also responsible for the creation of now two illegal products which were being sprayed on our food. Now‚ take a step into reality‚ open your mind and realize that this so called company is called Monsanto and this nation is called the United States of America. Monsanto is crippling the natural process
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These groups engage in advocacy‚ lobbying governments to make public policy changes‚ and public campaigns to gain or retain benefits for their members. Interest groups use strategies‚ such as providing education and special information for civil servants and politicians‚ encouraging public participation‚ and public education. They also participate in activities‚ for example‚ lobbying to directly persuade decision makers in Congress along with members of the
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Interest Groups I. What is an Interest Group? II. Why do people Join Interest Groups? III. Types of Interest Groups IV. Interest Groups Incentives V. Interest Group Strategists VI. Regulating Lobbyists I. Interest Group Interest Group- An organized group of individuals having common goal and actively attempting to influence government policies. II. Why have interest groups been so successful in the United States? Variety of interest due to economic social cleavages among the members of the American
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Radia’s phone lines for 300 days in 2008-09‚ as part of its investigations into alleged large scale money laundering‚ tax evasion and financial malpractices by Nira Radia may be taken as invasion of privacy but it unveiled the bitter truth about lobbying at par with journalism. Radia tapes controversy is about the involvement of nira radia in the planning of the news with some of very well known faces in the field of journalism. In the controversy the people involved from the media are Barkha Dutt
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Background of Refugee Rights Political Movement Since 2000‚ both the refugee rights political movement in Australia as a whole as well as the Australian National Committee on Refugee Women (ANCORW) have primarily been focused on key issues such as the differential treatment of asylum seekers based on how they arrived in Australia or apply for protection‚ the Pacific and Malaysian solution‚ the detention of asylum seekers and combating the view that boat arrivals are not ‘genuine refugees’
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I chose to use the company AT&T because my wife is an employee of this remarkable company. When I researched the company and their code of ethics‚ I found the following information: Encourage honest and ethical conduct‚ including fair dealing and the ethical handling of conflicts of interest; Encourage full‚ fair‚ accurate‚ timely and understandable disclosure; Encourage compliance with applicable laws and governmental rules and regulations; Ensure the protection of the Company ’s legitimate
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Standards start to tighten after incidents of unethical behavior shake engineers and contractors Ethics are challenged everywhere‚ it seems. On Oct. 28‚ a U.S. prosecutor indicted Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff for allegedly lying to a grand jury‚ which ended a particularly bad week for the Bush administration. But it was also a bad week for other politicians around the U.S.‚ whose proven or suspected ethics lapses also made headlines‚ if not on the front page. While I. Lewis Libby
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A case study on Microsoft’s Troubles in China Prepared for Shahid Hassan Course title: Global Business Course code: EMBA_591 Semester name: Summer East West University Prepared by Mirza Khalid Hossain Biddut ID : 2011 – 2 – 91 – 019 Sabbir Hossain ID : 2011 – 2 – 91 – 016 Moniruzzaman ID : Baki ID : Summary : Question answer to Q-3 of case study. Question: Why do you think it is so difficult to reduce software piracy in China? What strategies might Microsoft adopt
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