Ch. 18: Shareholders’ Equity What is Shareholders’ Equity? Accounts that represent the ownership interests of shareholders. Shareholders’ Equity = Assets - Liabilities Amount left over after creditor claims have been satisfied (like homeowners equity) Shareholders’ Equity appears two places within the financial statements: 1.) Shareholder’s Equity section of the balance sheet Example 1: Abbreviated Balance Sheet – The Gap‚ Inc. THE GAP‚ INC. CONSOLIDATED BALANCE
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Aim What are the features of the Wag water river and how they are formed due to erosion and deposition at each stage of the river? Discussion How tributaries cause the velocity to be greater? A tributary is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. Velocity downstream increases when there are more streams feeding the main stream. The load of a river is the total amount of material carried or transported by a river. The bedload is the load transported along the bed of
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What are the main features of hard determinism? According to The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy‚ hard determinism is the theory that ‘every event or state of affairs is brought about by antecedent events in accordance with universal causal laws.’ This theory of determinism is therefore supportive of human behaviour being predictable‚ that free will is an illusion and that moral responsibility is redundant. One key feature of hard determinism is the view that free will is an illusion. To elaborate
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Debt Ratio Debt Ratio • defined as the ratio of total debt to total assets‚ expressed in percentage‚ and can be interpreted as the proportion of a company’s assets that are financed by debt. • Measures the proportion of total assets financed by the firm’s creditors. The higher this ratio‚ the greater amount of other people’s money being used to generate profits. Formula: • The debt ratio is calculated by dividing total debt by total assets. Debt Ratio = Total Debt Total Assets Examples •
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Brand equity Brand equityis a phraseused in the marketing industry which describe the value of having a well-known brand name‚ based on the idea that the owner of a well-known brand name can generate more money from products with that brand name than from products with a less well known name‚ as consumers believe that a product with a well-known name is better than products with less well known names.[1][2][3][4] Another word for "brand equity" is "brand value". Some marketing researchers have
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What are the salient features of Blake’s poetry? Of all the romantic poets of the eighteenth century‚ William Blake (1757-1827) is the most independent and the most original. In his earliest work‚ written when he was scarcely more than a child‚ he seems to go back to the Elizabethan song writers for his models; but for the greater part of his life he was the poet of inspiration alone‚ following no man’s lead‚ and obeying no voice but that which he heard in his own mystic soul. Though the most
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Distinguishing Between Sexism and Religion INTRODUCTION One of my first assignments after my arrival to Florence was to keep a journal of my direct experience of Italian society and culture‚ with a special focus on gender. Subsequent to receiving the assignment I remember thinking to myself that I had no idea how to do that‚ but figured that I would catch on. On the contrary‚ it took me longer than I thought it would to understand this project. Staring off I did what was easiest and wrote about
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Case: Winfield Refuse Management‚ Inc.: Raising Debt vs. Equity I. Case situation: Decision Proof: 1. First part: "...‚ it was Sheene’s responsibility to lead the discussion on how to finance a major acquisition...reach a resolution this time." 2. Last part: "Board Discussion"‚"However‚ there was decidedly less agreement on the matter of financing..." 3. The article is about background and arguments about whether to raising debt or equity. II. Options: Funding the acquisition through
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the required return on a firm’s equity. Explain. MM Proposition II states that higher debt does not affect cost of capital of a firm. The reason is that the lower cost of debt is offset by a greater cost of equity‚ which means investors demand a higher return on equity as a result of the higher risk coming with more debt‚ that holds the firm’s cost of capital unchanged. Based on the above proposition‚ moderate borrowing may not increase the return on equity. It is suggested that the firm’s
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Customer equity is a result of customer relationship management. Customer equity is the total of discounted lifetime values of all of the firms customers. In layman terms‚ the more loyal a customer‚ the more is the customer equity. Firms like McDonalds‚ Apple and Facebook have very high customer equity and that is why they have an amazing and sustainable competitive advantage. Customer Equity is made up of three components. Value Equity‚ Brand Equity and Relationship Equity. Value Equity
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