Financial Statements Fraud Table of Contents Introduction ........................................................................................................ 1 Definition ............................................................................................................. 1 Purpose of Financial Statements Fraud ..................................................... 1 Financial Statement Fraud Schemes
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Stakeholders’ and Financial Statements Carol Watts Intermediate Accounting I ACC305 In today’s day and age there is no easy way of telling which companies are doing well and which are almost down in the dumps. Banks‚ lending facilities‚ and/or external stakeholders are greatly interested in seeing where companies are in the market compared to their competitors. These companies take the most risk by investing their monies into entities that are not started‚ maintained‚ or organized by
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THE COCA-COLA COMPANY CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2009‚ 2008 Analysis of Consolidated Statements of Income Percent Change Year Ended December 31‚ 2009 2008 2009 vs. 2008 (In millions except percentages and per share data) $ $ % NET OPERATING REVENUES 30‚990 31‚944 (2.99)% Cost of goods sold
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DANONE Case - Financial analysis of Danone group PENG Bo (e113110) GE Chuxiao(e113051) JIANG Yihong(e113066) Fiancial Statement Analysis – Danone Case Agenda • Introduction • Capital structure • Profitability • Return • Liquidity • Solvency • Conclusions & Recommendations Fiancial Statement Analysis – Danone Case Introduction of DANONE Group History Initiate in 1966‚ DANONE evolved from the original glass manufacturer to the international leader in fresh diary products.
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Purpose of Financial Statements The objective of financial statements is to provide information about the financial position‚ performance and changes in financial position of an enterprise that is useful to a wide range of users in making economic decisions (IASB Framework). Financial Statements provide useful information to a wide range of users: Managers require Financial Statements to manage the affairs of the company by assessing its financial performance and position and taking important business
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Financial Statement: A Summary report which quantitatively describes the financial health of a company Purpose of financial Statement: The objective of financial statements is to provide information about the financial position‚ performance and changes in financial position of an enterprise to the shareholders and lenders. it is useful to a wide range of users in making economic decisions. Components of Financial Statement: Profit & Loss Statement / Income Statement Retained earnings
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USES OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS The financing‚ investing‚ and operating activities of a company are recorded by accounting systems in the form of detailed transactions. To effectively communicate a company’s activities to decision-makers‚ these detailed transactions are summarized and reported in a set of standardized reports called financial statements. The role of financial statements is to provide information that will help investors‚ creditors‚ and others make judgments and predictions that serve
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Working with Financial Statements Accounting is the heart and soul of executing a successful business. Accounting is used to provide record for all items that are paid and received for a business over any period of time. Within the purpose of accounting lies the need to provide continuity and sustainability within a business‚ without it a business will not thrive. The information obtained is kept on record‚ in order to give insight to upper management on data concerning the daily revenue and expenses
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Table of Contents Introduction 2 How it happened? 2 Financial Reporting Issues 3 Trading Business and Mark to Marketing 3 Reporting Issues for Special Purpose Entities 3 Other Accounting Problems 4 Governance and Intermediation Failures at Enron 4 Role of Top Management Compensation 4 Role of Audit Committees 4 Role of External Auditors 4 Role of Fund Managers 5 Role of Accounting Regulations 5 The Sarbanes Oxley Act 5 Did it help? 5 Bibliography 6 Introduction Kenneth
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3101AFE TUTORIAL 2 - Semester 2 2013 Deegan Topics 2 and 3: The financial reporting environment and Regulation of financial accounting 2.1 What expectations do accounting standard-setters have about the accounting knowledge of financial statement readers? Accounting standard-setters have an expectation that the readers of general purpose financial reports have a ‘reasonable knowledge’ of accounting. Specifically‚ the IASB Framework states that ‘users are expected to have
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