Objective of financial statements[edit] Financial statements are a structured representation of the financial position and financial performance of an entity. The objective of financial statements is to provide information about the financial position‚ financial performance and cash flows of an entity that is useful to a wide range of users in making economic decisions. Financial statements also show the results of the management’s stewardship of the resources entrusted to it.[1] To meet this objective
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Chapter 5: Essentials of Financial Statement Analysis Evaluating accounting “quality” How do we define financial reporting quality? Qualitative characteristics of accounting Information: Understandability Decision usefulness Reliability Relevance Consistency Comparability 1 Attributes of High Quality Financial Reporting Financial reporting (earnings) quality has been considered positively associated with the following: High persistence of earnings and cash flows
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The Consolidated Statements of Earnings or the income statement tells financial statement users that there was a decrease in gross profit and net sales for the fiscal year 2008. The Consolidated Statements of Earnings show that the closing of underperforming stores‚ removal of new store openings from the pipeline‚ and staff reductions in many Home Depot projects resulted in $951 million in pretax charges. The difference profit and net sales is also a cause of fiscal year 2008 being 52 weeks and
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Material Financial Statement Review What is the net income for the current fiscal year? Is it up or down from the prior year? Why would this information be important to investors? For FY15 the total consolidated income for Walmart is $17‚099 million. In FY14 Walmart recorded a loss from FY13‚ but is showing an increase with $16‚695 million in FY14 to FY15. Page 38 of the Annual Financial Report shows these figures along with many other figures. Investors look at the Annual Financial Report to
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Analyzing Financial Statements Elizabeth Black HSM/260 October 16‚ 2011 Denise Lindley University of Phoenix Analyzing Financial Statements XYZ Corporation Years 2003/2004/2002 (Respectively Listed One Page after Another) 2003 Current Ratio | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Current Ratio = | Current Assets | | $82‚058.00 | | | 0.87 | | | Current Liabilities | | $93‚975.00 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Long-Term Solvency
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A SUMMER PROJECT REPORT ON “FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS” Submitted for the partial fulfillment of the requirement of the degree of Master of Business Administration‚ Under BPUT‚ Rourkela‚ Orissa [pic] 2008-10 ROURKELA STEEL PLANT‚ SAIL SUBMMITTED BY AHWAN MAHAKUDA ROLL NO.0806806036 GUIDENCE UNDER INTERNAL GUIDE EXTERNAL GUIDE Mr. SURESH KU SAHOO Mr. G. ARORA Lecture in Finance
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FIFTH SEMESTER BBA (CAM) SALES AND DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT Course Code: BBA (CAM) – 301 L:4 T/P: Credits: 4 PREAMBLE: The primary objective of the course is to familiarize the student with the sales operations and sales management functions and customer relationship management. Endeavor is to provide both theoretical inputs and applications of practical aspects. COURSE CONTENT: UNIT 1:
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Comparison of reporting discrepancies between IFRS and GAAP Kaci Amon‚ Poonam Aujla‚ Daniel Aurora‚ Yuanyan Fang‚ Mark Gonzalez Accounting 306 C1 Professor Xuhong Luo August 12‚ 2012 Executive Summary The generally accepted accounting principal (GAAP) and international financial reporting standard (IFRS) are standards governing how economic events are reported. In the United States‚ the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relies on the FASB‚ the accounting standard-setting body of
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ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Chapter Outline I. Reasons to analyze financial statements of foreign companies include: • making foreign portfolio investment decisions‚ • making foreign merger and acquisition decisions‚ • making credit decisions about foreign customers‚ • evaluating foreign suppliers‚ and • benchmarking against foreign competitors. II. There are several problems an analyst might encounter in analyzing foreign financial statements‚ including: • finding
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Financial Statement Analysis Chandra Sekhar Mishra VGSOM‚ IIT Kharagpur Outline Financial Statements and their Content ●Why Financial Statement Analysis (FSA)? ●Tools for FSA ● Financial Statements ● Balance Sheet ● ● Statement of financial position Statement of Assets and Liabilities ● ● ● ● Income Statement ● Statement of financial performance ● ● Assets: What a business owns Liabilities: What a business owes to non-owners Equities: What a business owes to owners Revenues and Expenses
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