Financial Statements XACC/290 January 12‚ 2014 Melissa Drayton Financial Statements There are four basic financial statements: balance sheet‚ income statement‚ retained earnings statement‚ and statement of cash flows. These financial statements would include an overview of the assets‚ liabilities‚ expenses‚ and revenues of the business. Financial statements are useful not only to internal user; such as managers and employees‚ but also to external users; such as investors and creditors to
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Financial Instruments Professor Lasse H. Pedersen Prof. Lasse H. Pedersen 1 Overview Real and financial assets Use of financial assets Important examples of financial assets Prof. Lasse H. Pedersen 2 Real Versus Financial Assets Real Assets – Assets used to produce goods and services – Examples: factories‚ land‚ human capital‚ etc. Financial Assets – Claims on real assets such as stocks bonds – Derivatives Prof. Lasse H. Pedersen Use of Financial Instruments
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Financial intermediaries‚ particularly banks‚ are the most important source of external funds used to finance businesses (slide 9-chapter 7) Introduction: Financial intermediaries‚ particularly banks are a major source of finance for all businesses‚ providing finance for starting up‚ running the business and for expansion. Banks in Vietnam have the most important role in financing business activities. However‚ it is difficult task for small and medium-sized enterprises in Vietnam to get access to
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] 1. Explain the financial planning process in an engineering business Financial Planning Process Step 1: Identify‚ Establish and Prioritise Goals Financial Planning is about achieving your goals: Create revenue‚ maintained profit margin‚ expanding the business‚ maintained reputation. Because specific goals are usually tied to a certain point in the future‚ this step will also help establish your time horizons for achieving your goals. Step 2: Gather Financial Data During this step
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Analysis of Financial Statements After reading this chapter‚ students should be able to: Explain why ratio analysis is usually the first step in the analysis of a company’s financial statements. List the five groups of ratios‚ specify which ratios belong in each group‚ and explain what information each group gives us about the firm’s financial position. State what trend analysis is‚ and why it is important. Describe how the Du Pont chart is used‚ and how it may be modified to include
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entity‚ it is required to release financial reports that comply with the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) (Deegan 2008:83). Two companies have been chosen to analyse their reports‚ in particular the disclosures made in their respective reports. The two companies chosen to analyse are Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and Macquarie Bank Limited (MBL). CBA The Commonwealth Bank is one of Australia’s leading providers of integrated financial services including retail‚ business
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Financial Indicators Decision Making Simulation Form Date: April 9 2013 Team: “A” Team Members: What cost cutting options were chosen? Explain why those were chosen. Reducing the utilization of agency staff - It decreases the amount of premiums the hospital pay to the staffing agencies and the management fees. The cost for contract staff is nearly twice to those employees hired by the hospital directly. Changing the skill mix - It allows the nurses to delegate
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In Appendix I.‚ Concerning Moral Sentiment‚ David Hume looks to find a place in morality for reason‚ and sentiment. Through‚ five principles he ultimately concludes that reason has no place within the concept of morality‚ but rather is something that can only assist sentiment in matters concerning morality. And while reason can be true or false‚ those truths or falsities apply to facts‚ not to morality. He then argues morals are the direct result of sentiment‚ or the inner feeling within a human
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Hello Jackie and thank you for your honest posting about nursing and financial management. I too have very little experience with marketing‚ budgeting ‚ and economics. I consider myself a more scielnce person so this coarse was very challenging to me as well. I am embarrassed to say that I struggled sometimes with the subject matter just because I am not as finicaially as savy. Nurses have to have more knowledge about patients and costs of nursing expenses. I do not think you failed because as
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The Great Depression of 1929 was mostly due to international factors rather than domestic factors. However‚ when over viewing the prime causes of the Great Depression one must distinguish five- the conclusion of World War I‚ the decline of international trade due to high tariffs‚ monetary policies (in particular the gold standard)‚ the slowing of the American economy in 1929‚ and the stock market crash. Clarence L. Barber in his Origins of the Great Depression emphasizes international factors and
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