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    Financial Statements for Internal Reporting Purposes vs. Financial Statements for External Reporting Purposes It is common in most companies to maintain two set of financial statements; one being used/presented for internal reporting purposes and another for reporting externally. Internal reports are used primarily to aid management in the decision making process throughout the course of the business. These are subject to internal audit to make sure that all information reported are fair and correct

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    Acct 3120 External Financial Reporting II Chapter 14 Debt This quiz is based on the 10-K for the year ended December 28‚ 2013 for PepsiCo‚ Inc. You can obtain Pepsi’s financial statements from the firm’s corporate web site at http://www.pepsico.com/Investors.html. Unless otherwise indicated‚ all questions relate to the current period’s financial statements. 1. How much is the current maturity of Pepsi’s long-term debt that was shown as a current liability? 5306millions 2

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    the structure of families‚ the quality of life and even the very future of the planet. Significantly‚ most companies are still not reporting relevant Corporate Social responsibility (CSR) information. Some studies have found that most CSR reporting is of descriptive‚ self-congratulatory nature‚ alluding more to good intentions than actual CSR programs and rarely reporting any bad news about companies’ relationship with the environment”. Corporations have significant impacts on society‚ people’s life

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    Narrative Reporting

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     To bridge the perceived information gap‚ and  to satisfy the information requirements of the standard setters‚ narrative reporting has come  to the fore.    In its various guises – Business Review‚ Management Commentary‚ Management Discussion  and Analysis‚ Chairman’s Statement‚ Corporate Governance Statement‚ Environmental  Statement‚ Remuneration Statement‚ and Health and Safety Statement – narrative reporting  is now a significant segment of the annual report in many parts of the world. It has  supplemented an

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    citizens. Financial statements are the traditional way in which a government’s performance is reported. Traditional financial statements provide fiscal information and indicate if a profit was made. However‚ according to Mead profit is not the main objective for governments. “Most governmental entities do not have a profit motive‚ although they try to ensure that sufficient resources are raised to cover their costs. Making ends meet is important because it helps to ensure a government’s long-term financial

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    Segmental Reporting

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    Index 1 Introduction to segmental reporting 2 2 Origin of segmental reporting 2 2.1 The fineness-theorem 2 2.2 Market efficiency theory 2 2.3 Agency theory 2 2.4 Accounting theory 3 3 The most important segmental reporting standards 3 3.1 International Accounting Standard 14 (IAS 14) 3 3.1.1 The International Accounting Standards Committee 3 3.1.2 The International Accounting Standards Board 4 3.1.3 IAS 14: Segment reporting 4 3.1.3.1 Objective of IAS 14 (revised) 4 3.1.3.2 Applicability

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    Sustainability Reporting

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    Executive summary: Sustainability reporting‚ alternatively known as CSR reporting‚ is the annual process whereby companies - public‚ private; large and small - report on their sustainability performance.  Reports typically cover social‚ environmental‚ economic and ethical performance and incorporate information on a company ’s environmental impact or carbon footprint‚ staff satisfaction‚ community investment etc. Sustainability reporting is becoming increasingly important as a tool companies can

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    Financial Reporting

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    What is financial reporting? The traditional function of financial reporting was to provide business owners with information about the companies that they owned and operated. Once the delegation of managerial responsibilities to hired personnel became a common practice‚ financial reporting began to focus on stewardship—that is‚ on the managers’ accountability to the owners. Its purpose then was to document how effectively the owners’ assets were managed‚ in terms of both capital preservation and

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    Integrated Reporting

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    Chapter 1 Introduction The development of Integrated Reporting is designed to enhance and consolidate existing reporting practices‚ to move towards a reporting framework that provides the information needed to assess organizational value in the 21st century. The traditional reporting model was developed for an industrial world. Although it continues to play a valuable role with respect to stewardship of financial capital‚ it nonetheless focuses on a relatively narrow account of historical financial

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    Segment Reporting

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    Accounting Standards for the 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

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