Financial Reporting & Analysis April 19th‚ 2013 Case Study- Harnischfeger Corporation 1. Describe clearly the accounting changes Harnischfeger made in 1984 as stated in Note 2 of its financial statements. The accelerated depreciation method was changed from to straight-line on all company assets that caused to increase after-tax net income for 1984 by $11.005 million. The cumulative effect of change in 1984 there will
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strategy of producing low cost and high quality products. It had embarked on a program of acquisitions to meets its aggressive goals of growing sales 15% annually. It had acquired only financially successful companies. But in 1979‚ it acquired Skil Corporation‚ a financially mediocre performing company for $58 million. Skil was a leading manufacturer of portable power tools serving the professional and consumer markets‚ the circular saw being the strongest and best seller amongst those tools‚ which it
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Rubatex Corporation‚ which manufactures rubber and foam for a variety of products‚ is having lots of problems‚ particularly at their Bedford plant. Although the sales have increased‚ the net profits have decreased. American Industrial Partners (API)‚ who purchased Rubatex‚ is demanding aggressive action to be taken to reduce the losses incurred. The working conditions at the Bedford plant are abysmal. The plant is hot‚ dirty and not air-conditioned. The equipment is old and outdated. The work in
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Mengxiong Li English 205OL The Google Corporation Google has developed into the biggest search engine on the Internet‚ and it has already become the most familiar name to everyone nowadays. Most of us must have experienced its impeccable search engine in today’s Internet world. But how much do we know about Google? Google was founded in 1998 by Stanford computer science graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin who named the search engine they built “Google‚” which is a variation on
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ways to produce a specific product do so in abundance and share it through global trade with the world‚ rather than it be extremely difficult and costly for a single state to do it alone. Through foreign direct investment‚ multinational corporations are able to invest in other countries by establishing their own facilities in foreign territories. This is the base of globalization. Through FDI and MNCs companies are locating closer to customers and introducing themselves in the same area as
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Cendant Corporation 1a. An auditor conducting an audit obtains reasonable assurance that the financial statements taken as a whole are free from material misstatement‚ whether caused by fraud or error. When obtaining reasonable assurance‚ an auditor maintains an attitude of professional skepticism throughout the audit considers the potential for management override of controls and recognizes the fact that audit procedures that are effective for detecting error may not be appropriate in the context
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ACF: CONGOLEUM CORPORATION Summary Congoleum Corporation has three product market segments: home furnishings‚ shipbuilding and automotive and industrial distribution. In 1979‚ First Boston Corporation bid for an LBO of Congoleum for a price per share of $38. The purpose of this analysis is to assess Congoleum as a LBO candidate and determine whether the offer made by First Boston Corporation is fair. 1. Is Congoleum a good LBO candidate? In other words‚ does this company have a lot of debt
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Marriott corporation Group -1 Akasha.J Dhivya Priya.R Gayathri.P.A Sadhana.S Srikumaran.M.A Components of Marriott’s Financial Strategy Growth Objective: Is to become the preferred employer and provider in lodging‚ contract services and restaurants‚ and to be the most profitable company in the industry. 1. Manage rather than own hotel assets: Lowers accounting assets on the books thereby increasing the ROA. Sharing of risk that comes from the properties and provide Marriott to operate with
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Materiality If we were investors in this company‚ we would consider 5% to be material. The company does not seem to have any high risk of fraud or material misstatement‚ so we are very comfortable with the quality of its financial reporting. A misstatement of 5% or above in any of the significant company accounts‚ or a combined misstatement of 5% or above for the company accounts as a whole‚ would require increased investigation and would reduce our confidence in the records. Any misstatement
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1. Read the footnotes carefully. Identify four accounting policy changes and accounting estimates that Harnischfeger made during 1984 and estimate as accurately as possible the effect of these changes on the company’s 1984 reported profits? One accounting change that Harnischfeger made was that they were going to include products purchased from Kobe Steel in their net sales. Before November 1‚ 1983 only the gross margin on Kobe products was included in their net sales. Harnischfeger was also
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