explaining the difference between Microsoft’s market value of equity to book value of equity and overall financial reporting strategies employed at the firm. We analyzed financial information dating from 1985 to 1999 and 2011 annual report provided by Microsoft. We found factors explaining market value of equity are perceived risk and future cash flows. Additionally‚ we concluded the firm’s financial reporting practices were used to create a distorted impression of business performance to seek certain results
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Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond‚ Washington that develops‚ manufactures‚ licenses‚ and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4‚ 1975. Microsoft is the world’s largest software maker measured by revenues.[3] It is also one of theworld’s most valuable companies.[4] Microsoft was established to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair
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2012 Financial Analysis Report Prepared for Microsoft Corporation By Yifei Fu October 9‚ 2012 This report provides information about the operating results and performance of the Microsoft Corporation in the fiscal year of 2012. According to their financial statement‚ there are some concerns listed below that people should pay attention to: 1. Across the entire financial statement‚ there are some significant changes in income statement. Compared with the 2011 fiscal year‚ 2012 net
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Giving homosexuals the same legal rights as heterosexuals is a special treatment. Why should abnormal behaviour be rewarded? It really bothers me that in the year 2015‚ I have to justify why being a homosexual is not abnormal behaviour. First off‚ how is being in love a person of the same gender any different than loving a person of a different one? Who is getting hurt in this situation? Why do some heterosexual people think that people that are homosexuals should not have the same rights as them
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Robotech‚ the Robot Robotech‚ a robot‚ is sitting on a chair with his hands dangling on his sides; he is facing a wall a few feet away. The goal is to give step-by-step instructions to the robot to get the robot to walk to the wall‚ touch the wall with the palms of his hands‚ and return to his initial sitting position. Note that your instructions to the robot should work regardless of where the robot is sitting; he could be 10 feet away‚ 3 feet away‚ or right in front of the wall! Here is
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Q1. Microsoft chose not to capitalize any software development cost and thus expensed them all as R&D. Assume that 60% of the reported R&D could have been capitalized and spread out over the following two years. For example. The amount of R&D capitalized into 1995 would be evenly spread out among 1996 and 1997. If this were the case how much would net income have been in 1997 and 1998? What would be the percentage increase in net income from 1997 t0 1998? Compare that to the actual reporting change
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Read the following scenario: You are working at a support desk for a company providing onsite and telephone support to customers with Microsoft Excel questions. On this particular day‚ you are presented with the following three situations: Situation 1: A business professional wants to use Excel to organize data for the monthly expense report. He has never used Excel and is inquiring about the functions that would support him with this task. Situation 2: A husband is having difficulties with
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Google‚ Apple‚ Microsoft Case 1. Apple is the leader in mobile software apps‚ thanks to the popularity of the App Store for its iPhones. They are also working on the front line of mobile computing. Apple has had enormous success in the Internet era‚ thanks to devices that they provide. They also have a loyal customer base that is always growing and continues to buy the new Apple products. Another reason for their success is because of the App Store. Google also has a dog in the fight when talking
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Microsoft’s journey towards Monopoly Summary The case evolves around the unethical monopolistic actions taken by Microsoft to achieve monopoly. Some major facts in the case are given below – • In 1980 IBM representative met bill gates for Operating System • Bill Gates bought Operating System from a friend in $60‚000 Microsoft licensed MS-DOS to IBM with condition that it could license it to others too •1981 IBM started mass production of and MS-DOS became standard Operating System for Personal
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This case study focused on the Microsoft Corporation and charges made by their competitors‚ the Federal Trade Commission‚ and the Department of Justice of antitrust violations and a monopoly of the computer operating systems and applications software‚ software development tools (e.g.‚ programming language software)‚ and hardware peripherals (e.g.‚ Microsoft Mouse) that Microsoft specializes in. It focused on numerous issues that would lead one to believe that Microsoft was in fact monopolizing the entire
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