WHAT HAS THE INVISIBLE HAND ACHIEVED? Ross L. Watts Sloan School Massachusetts Institute of Technology January 27‚ 2006 _____________________________ This paper was presented at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales Information for Better Capital Markets Conference in London on December 20‚ 2005. I am grateful to Ryan LaFond‚ Karthik Ramanna‚ Sugata Roychowdhury and Joseph Weber for their comments. All remaining errors are mine. 1. INTRODUCTION When I was invited
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report for the publicly traded company used to complete the Financial Reporting Problem‚ Part 1 assignment due in Week Six. Analyze the information contained in the company’s balance sheet and income statement to answer the following questions: •Are the assets included under the company’s current assets listed in the proper order? Explain your answer. The current assets should be listed in the order of liquidity. The assets which can be easily converted into cash are listed first. Cash is already
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Chapter 5: Essentials of Financial Statement Analysis Evaluating accounting “quality” How do we define financial reporting quality? Qualitative characteristics of accounting Information: Understandability Decision usefulness Reliability Relevance Consistency Comparability 1 Attributes of High Quality Financial Reporting Financial reporting (earnings) quality has been considered positively associated with the following: High persistence of earnings and cash flows
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approaches of management in management theory. Which approach‚ do you think‚ adequately clears the nature of management? ……………………………………………………………………………[10 marks] 2. “Decision making is the primary task of the management”. Discuss this statement and explain the process of decision making. [10 marks] ASSIGNMENT-2 1. What are the leadership qualities that you would look for in a manager? Distinguish between innate and acquirable
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Start with the partial model in the file Ch12 P10 Build a Model.xls on the textbook’s Web site‚ which contains the 2013 financial statements of Zieber Corporation. Forecast Zeiber’s 2014 income statement and balance sheets. Use the following assumptions: (1) Sales grow by 6%. (2) The ratios of expenses to sales‚ depreciation to fixed assets‚ cash to sales‚ accounts receivable to sales‚ and inventories to sales will be
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Chapter 11 balance sheet hedge. Reducing foreign exchange (FX) exposure by varying the mix of a firm’s foreign currency assets and liabilities. Economic exposure. The effect of FX rate changes on a firm’s future costs and revenues. Exposure management. Structuring a company’s affairs to minimize the adverse effects of exchange rate changes on earnings. net exposed asset position. An excess of exposed assets over exposed liabilities (also called a positive exposure). net exposed liability position
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The different between the formats of financial statements (income statement and balance sheet) for different types of business such as sole proprietorship‚ partnership and limited company Each company will have different economic sectors so they use different financial statements with different format that satisfy those sectors. The financial statements collect the financial records form the sales and purchases produce‚ the net taxable profit or loss for each month. Different types of business use
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1. Alleg‚ Inc. Balance Sheet December 31‚ 2012 Assets Current Assets Cash And Cash Equivalents 14‚000 Marketable securities 17‚000 Accounts Receivables‚ Net 26‚000 Inventory 33‚000 90‚000 Total Long Term Assets Land and Buildings 57‚000 Machinery and equipment 120‚000 Accumulated Depreciation 61‚000 Goodwill 13‚000 Intangible Assets 9‚000 Other Assets 45‚000 183‚000 Total Assets 273‚000
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Sample Balance Sheet: Example Company Balance Sheet December 31‚ 2011 ASSETS | | | LIABILITIES | Current assets | | | Current liabilities | | | Cash | $ 2‚100 | | | Notes payable | $ 5‚000 | | Petty cash | 100 | | | Accounts payable | 35‚900 | | Temporary investments | 10‚000 | | | Wages payable | 8‚500 | | Accounts receivable - net | 40‚500 | | | Interest payable | 2‚900 | | Inventory | 31‚000 | | | Taxes payable | 6‚100 | | Supplies | 3‚800
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Income statement The income statement or the profit and loss account as it is also called measures reports how much profit (wealth) has the business generated over a period of time. To measure profit the total generated revenue over a period must be identified. Revenue is a measure of inflow of economic benefits arising from the operations of the business. These benefits will either result in an increase of assets such as cash or amounts owed to the business by the customers or a decrease
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