on a scale of 0 to 25. The assignment should be submitted on Blackboard. No late assignment will be accepted. Enjoy the problems! Assignment Instructions: For this homework you will have to predict the future financial statements of the Body Shop. There is a template provided. Use the figures for 2011 and the forecasting assumptions on the template to forecast the income statement and balance sheet for the next three years. For some variables there are no assumptions provided since they should
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Marketing Plan for The Body Shop International consists of: The view of present company situation. Company managed to successfully market itself for 3 decades as well as expand very fast through retail franchising model. Constant product development has shown positive results in sales. Trading relationships with communities in need has enabled company to outsource high quality sustainable and relatively cheap materials. Growth Model. Acquisition of independent "The Body Shop" franchisee stores In
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The body Shop Case study Question 1: Base Case Assumptions In order to derive this forecast‚ ‘percent-of-sales’ forecasting was used‚ which involves initially forecasting sales and then forecasting other financial statement accounts based on their direct relationship with sales. This method of forecasting was used due to the lack of information available (only the last three years of financial statements). As a result‚ every account in the pro forma financial statements are based on one or more
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The Body Shop International PLC 2001: An Introduction to Financial Modeling The following graph presents the forecast for the Body Shop’s income statement and balance sheet in 2002 to 2004: How did you derive your forecast? Why did you choose the “base case” assumptions that you did? The forecast takes into considerations the stated business objectives of the Body Shop as well as trends or patterns in the historical financial statement in exhibit 8. Further information on the calculations and
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campaign to encourage us to save our planet‚ how can people be aware and know theirs obligation to save the world. This paper will explain the meaning of corporate social responsibility‚ advantages and disadvantages of CSR through the example of The Body Shop. In addition‚ it will discuss why it is important to modern businesses. The meaning of Corporate Social Responsibility has changed since the early 20th century and it has never been a straightforward. The importance of CSR arose with the role
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Title: L’Oreal takes over The Body Shop - A Case Study Objective/scope My main focus will be to analyse on the two different values of The Body Shop and L’Oreal. There will be a short summary of The Body Shop history‚ their values and the reasons why their values actually help in the success of The Body Shop. As well as a short summary of L’Oreal history and their company’s overview values as well. The analysis will also provide the reason why The Body shop owner‚ Anita Roddick‚ allows
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Accounting Education: an international journal Vol. 20‚ No. 2‚ 203– 222‚ April 2011 Adding Value to Audit Education through ‘Living’ Cases JULIE DRAKE University of Huddersfield‚ UK Received: November 2009 Revised: July 2010 Accepted: September 2010 ABSTRACT This paper seeks to address the perceived failure of university teaching to foster critical understanding of audit practice and to identify a potential remedy. It contributes to the debate (Maltby‚ 2001‚ “Second thoughts about ‘Cases in
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Interim An audit which conducted in between the two annual audits with a view to find out interim profits to enable the company to declare an interim dividend is known as Interim Audit. It is a kind of audit which is conducted between the two periodical or balance sheet audits. Objectives Of Interim Audit 1. To know profit or loss of interim period. 2. To distribute interim dividend. 3. To get loan on the basis of interim account. 4. To get information about the financial position
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which exceeds materiality of $50‚000. c. The auditor should either propose an audit adjustment so that the unadjusted statement amount is less than materiality‚ and/or perform more testing to obtain a better estimate of the population misstatements. The additional testing will likely focus on receivables and inventory because they have the largest estimated misstatements. 9-28 a. The following terms are audit planning decisions requiring professional judgment: Preliminary judgment about materiality
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Fundamental concepts of f/s audit Materiality misstatement of accounting information. is a matter of professional judgment Audit risk The auditor expresses an inappropriate audit opinion when the financial statements are materially misstated‚ Evidence (more than “per discussion with client) Major phrases of audit: Client acceptance/continuance; Preliminary engagement activities; Establish materiality and assess risks; Plan the audit ;Consider and audit internal control; Audit business processes and
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