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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Financial Analysis using Excel Function Information requirements for function Dates Prices and par values Frequency‚ and related Yields and interest/ discount rates Discount Any amount paid at maturity ? Frequency of payme nts pa First coupon Redemption amount Investment amount # of periods Settlement Par/coupon Maturity COUPDAYBS COUPDAYS COUPDAYSNC COUPNCD COUPPCD COUPNUM DURATION MDURATION PRICE PRICEDISC PRICEMAT RECEIVED YIELD YIELDDISC YIELDMAT ACCRINT
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Executive Summary Laura Arias is a well-known UK-based company that provides home furnishing of good quality but relatively lower prices compared with those of competitors‚ targeting middle- and low-income consumers. In early 2008‚ the company entered Chinese market and founded branches in some big cities‚ such as Beijing‚ Shanghai‚ Shenzhen‚ etc. However‚ many Chinese consumers show a low level of satisfaction towards the company. This research proposal is prepared to provide guide for formal
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Robert F. Kennedy’s speech Abdulrahman Alsaif Prof. Christopher Ruh Mar 20‚ 2016 COMS 151 Question A1: In what way do you see and hear Sen. Kennedy acting ethically as a public speaker? In other words‚ how was his speech the kind of public dialogue our book defines as an "ethical and civil exchange of ideas and opinions among communities about topics that affect the public?" According to Cindy L. Griffin in her book Invitation to Public Speaking (2015). Civility is an important part of being
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An Analysis of Robert Frost’s Mending Wall Mending Wall‚ by Robert Frost portrays the routines of two neighbors who are constantly mending the fence‚ or wall‚ that separates their properties. If a stone is missing form the fence‚ you can bet that the two men are out there putting it back together piece by piece. Frost’s description of every detail in this poem is quite interesting‚ very pleasant to read‚ and extremely imaginable. He leaves the reader to decide for himself what deductions
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Campus Deli Inc. Case Analysis Prepared by: Angelica Kristine Gaco Rizza Carla Ramos Campus Deli Inc Assume that you have just been hired as business manager of Campus Deli (CD)‚ which is located adjacent to the campus. Sales were $1‚100‚000 last year; variable costs were 60% of sales; and fixed costs were $40‚000. Therefore‚ EBIT totaled $400‚000. Because the university’s enrollment is capped‚ EBIT is expected to be constant over time. Because no expansion capital is required‚ CD pays out all
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Financial Analysis of General Motors and Ford Motor Company FNCE442 Advanced Finance (FN) Professor: Due date: June 01‚ 2009 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Porter Five Forces Analysis Model 5 Competitive rivalry within the industry 5 Barriers to Entry 6 Threats of Substitutes and Complements 6 Bargaining Power of Customers 6 Bargaining Power of Suppliers 7 SWOT Analysis 7 GM SWOT Analysis 7 Strengths 7 Weaknesses
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MARKET OVERVIEW 2 3. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ANALYSIS OVERVIEW 5 3.1 Revenues 5 3.2 Total operational profits 6 3.3 Current Assets 7 3.4 Long Lived Assets 7 3.5 Dividends 8 4. RATIO ANALYSIS 9 4.1 Liquidity Ratios 9 4.2 Efficiency Ratios 10 4.3 Profitability Ratios 11 4.4 Gearing Ratios 12 5. TREND ANALYSIS 14 6. CONCLUSION 15 Appendix 1: Balance Sheet Horizontal Analysis 16 Appendix 2: Income Statement Horizontal Analysis 17 Appendix 3: Balance Sheet Vertical Analysis 18 Appendix 4: Income
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increased during the 1990’s with the Internet facilitating direct purchases of drugs. Advertising for direct consumption of pharmaceutical drugs became more prominent; pharmaceutical companies were criticized for over medicating personality or social problems. Society expects drug companies to improve people’s well-being and to behave like a nonprofit company not overly concerned with making large profits. However‚ investors expect pharmaceutical companies to earn profits making it unlikely that life-saving
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good news and the positive signaling effect. The main company that we are performing financial analysis is on Aftab Motors LTD. Since our major focus is to compare two companies’ financial performances over time‚ so we have selected Atlas Bangladesh LTD as the rival company of Aftab Motors LTD. According to the project instruction‚ we aimed towards rationalizing stock price through financial statement analysis‚ and in doing so we have seriously dealt with the book value and market value of shares
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