Financial Statement Analysis for Investors Michael Price MBA640: Accounting for Decision Making Dr. Ulinski December 11‚ 2012 Table of Contents: Section I: Introduction (Page 3) Section II: Literature Review (Page 4) Section III: Methodology and Data Collection (Page 5) Section IV: Results (Page 6) a. Income Statement Analysis (Page 7) b. Balance Sheet Analysis (Page 11) c. Statement of Cash flow Analysis (Page 14) Section V: Conclusion (Page 16) a. Recommendation
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Accounting and the Four Basic Accounting Statements Accounting is a body of principles and conventions as well as established general process for capturing financial information related to an entity’s resources and their use in meeting the entity’s goals (Kaliski‚ 2007). It is essential for companies to have educated and trained accountants to analyze and maintain their financial information. Accountants use four different types of financial statements to accomplish this. The purpose of accounting
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First‚ the investment needs of SMEs shortage of funds ‚ banks and other financial institutions are the main source of finance for SMEs ‚ but SMEs to attract financial institution’s investment or borrowing more difficult‚ even if the bank agrees to lend to SMEs ‚ but also because of the high risk and improve lending rates‚ thereby increasing the cost of financing for SMEs ‚ the second is the pursuit of short-term goals ‚ due to its small size ‚ the proportion of loans invested much more than large
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financial statements : The final product of financial accounting is in the form of financial statements that are packaged with other information in a financial report. •Financial statements are prepared at the end of each accounting period. A period maybe one month‚ one quarter‚ or one year. •Financial statements report summary amounts‚ or totals. There are three main financial statements: –The balance sheet: containing Assets and source of Assets at a specific date –The income statement representing
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Home Depot is one of the largest home repair retailers in my area. I will highlight their 2015 financial statement‚ and give examples of how the statement could be useful to their business leaders‚ as well as outside venders. 2015 financial highlights. (n.d.). In fiscal year 2015‚ we grew sales for the sixth consecutive year‚ with positive sales growth in all three U.S. Divisions‚ Canada and Mexico. Comparable store sales were up 5.6 percent; total sales were up 6.4 percent; and diluted earnings
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CHAPTER 4 Income Statement and Related Information ASSIGNMENT CLASSIFICATION TABLE (BY TOPIC) Topics 1. Income measurement concepts. Questions 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 5‚ 6‚ 7‚ 8‚ 9‚ 10‚ 18‚ 28‚ 31‚ 32‚ 33 1 1‚ 2‚ 7 Brief Exercises Exercises Problems Concepts for Analysis 3‚ 4‚ 5‚ 6‚ 8 2. Computation of net income from balance sheets and selected accounts. Single-step income statements; earnings per share. Multiple-step income statements. Extraordinary items; accounting changes; discontinued operations;
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Analysis of Financial Statements Financial statements are frequently a key source of information for financial decisions and taking a look at Microsoft’s financial statements can help us decide certain things about the company. There are three different types of statements that will be discussed in this section. These include: the balance sheet‚ the income statement‚ and the statement of cash flows. They are discussed here in either the sense of quarterly or yearly statements and will be noted
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Pro forma statement analysis The outputs from the financial planning model are projected financial statements called pro forma financial statements. In finance and accounting‚ the term pro forma means forecasted or projected (Parrino‚ 2012). These statements are prepared on the basis of the inputs and assumptions that are fed into the financial model. This paper presents an analysis of the pro forma income statement and pro forma balance sheet of a fictitious company called XYZ Company inc. Appendix
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Financial Statement Restatement Paper A number of companies have faced restatements because of errors in their financial statements (Kieso‚ Weygandt‚ & Waterfield‚ 2007). Overstock.com is an online retailer offering closeout and discount brand and non-brand name merchandise. They also operate as part of their website an online auctions business- a marketplace for the buying and selling goods and services. In February 2006‚ the company restated financial reports from Q1 2002 to Q3 2005 due
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I - A. " Representational faithfulness is accomplished when transactions and events affecting the entity are presented in financial statements in a manner that is in agreement with the actual underlying transactions and events" (CICA‚ Financial statement Concepts 1000.21 (a)‚ 2003). It means that all of information in the financial statement such as numbers and descriptions must be factual. The independent auditors checked the computer ID tags on each piece of equipment to confirm the actual numbers
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