FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND CASH FLOW 1. Liquidity measures how quickly and easily an asset can be converted to cash without significant loss in value. It’s desirable for firms to have high liquidity so that they have a large factor of safety in meeting short-term creditor demands. However‚ since liquidity also has an opportunity cost associated with it - namely that higher returns can generally be found by investing the cash into productive assets - low liquidity levels are also desirable to the
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information. Outline the different sources of regulation of financial statements in Ireland. When accountants are preparing a set of financial statements accountants must comply with the relevant accounting rules. The regulatory framework provides a set of rules and regulations to ensure fair play.’ The principal aim of the regulatory frame work is to ensure that the financial statements present a true and fair view of the financial performance and position of the organization’. The three sources
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or the municipal authority of any particular region. This is done to monitor the performance of the firm or the government organization. The company here the auditors who provide the auditing report and submit those reports annually or semiannually to the law or the concerned municipal law authority. This statutory auditing finally does the cross checking of the financial reports which are provided by the companies. They do cross checking by gathering the transaction information from the company’s
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’Is it possible for auditors to achieve absolute independence and what regulations should be imposed to attain or maintain independence?’ Auditor independence requires auditors to take an unbiased viewpoint in the overall performance of the audit report‚ and therefore maintain the fundamental principles of integrity and objectivity. Auditor independence is possible‚ however it is quite hard to achieve as it requires auditors to meet all the guidelines set out by AASB and statutory requirements
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DO SHAREHOLDERS OF ACQUIRING FIRMS GAIN FROM ACQUISITIONS? Sara B. Moeller Frederik P. Schlingemann René M. Stulz Working Paper 9523 http://www.nber.org/papers/w9523 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 February 2003 We are grateful to Harry DeAngelo and Ralph Walkling for useful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the author and not necessarily those of the National Bureau of Economic Research. ©2003 by Sara
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business simulated List of transactions Books of Original Entry: * The General Journal * Purchases Journal * Sales Journal * Returns Outwards Journal * Returns Inwards Journal * Cash Book * Petty Cash Book The ledgers: * Purchases Ledger * Sales Ledger * General Ledger Trial Balance Trading and Profit and Loss Account Balance Sheet Interpretation of Results: * Using account ratios * Comparison (beginning to end) Statement about the performance of
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Financial Statement Differentiation There are four different types of financial statements; they are balance sheets‚ income statements‚ retained earnings statements‚ and statements of cash flows. Each of these financial statements are important to investors‚ creditors‚ and management in various ways. This paper will provide further insight into these financial statements as well as explore‚ which of these would be of interest to investors‚ creditors‚ and management. Financial Statements
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2012/2013 (A121) CHAPTER 2-FINANCIAL STATEMENT AND CASH FLOWS Section A Please circle TRUE or FALSE to the following statements. 1) An income statement reports a firm’s cumulative revenues and expenses from the inception of the firm through the income statement date. Answer: FALSE 2) A firm’s income statement reports the results from operating the business for a period of time‚ while the firm’s balance sheet provides a snapshot of the firm’s financial position at a specific point
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Financial Statements 1 Financial Statements ACC 280 Emily Roddy Financial Statements 2 Introduction The purpose of this paper is to define accounting‚ and identify the four basic financial statements. The paper also explains how the different financial statements are interrelated to each other and why they are useful to managers‚ investors‚ creditors‚ and employees. Accounting Accounting is a business discipline that allows companies to record‚ analyze‚ and retrieve critical
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External Auditor in Corporate Governance The external auditor has long played an important role in the corporate governance function. However‚ before we begin our analysis on how the external auditor plays this role and its importance‚ we must first examine the responsibilities and duties of such an auditor. Similarly‚ we need to clearly define what corporate governance is before we discuss in detail the role that auditors play in it. 1. Introduction 1.1 The External Auditor External auditors are
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