Budget Definition and its Purpose: Budget a detailed plan‚ expressed in quantitative terms‚ that specifies how resources will be acquired and used during a specified period of time. A budget is a description of a financial plan. It is a list of estimates of revenues to and expenditures by an agent for a stated period of time. Normally a budget describes a period in the future not the past Purposes of budgeting systems: Planning Facilitating Communication and Coordination Allocating Resources
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Managing Financial Principles and Techniques Assignment 2 Part 1: Financial Appraisal techniques Part 2: Forecasting Part 1-Financial Appraisal Techniques Task 1. NET PRESENT VALUE (NPV) Year PROJECT X £000 Project Y £ 000 Discount Factor X Y 0 -200 -200 -200 -200 1 35 218 0.909 31.815 198.162 2 80 10 0.826 66.08 8.26 3 90 10 0.751 67.59 7.51 4 75 4 0.683 51.225 2.732 5 20 3 0.621 12.42 1.863 229 219 1)NET PRESENT VALUE (NPV) X= 229-200=29 Y=219-200=19 PAYBACK
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Financial Reporting Google is a publicly traded company which means that customer and stakeholders have access to the company’s financial information. The balance sheet and income statements are the two financial statements which gives a brief summary of a company’s overall financial condition. The balance sheet focuses and report figures of assets‚ liabilities and owner’s equity of the business. Assets are anything that a business has with a value such as furniture‚ liabilities are monies owe to
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SPARTECH Corporation 2009 2010 Industry Average Current Ratio 1.6 times 1.5 times 2.26 Quick Ratio 0.88 times 0.85 times 0.87 Average collection period 51 days 48 days 13 days Days inventory held 28 days 31 days 134 days Days payable outstanding 47 days 52 days 37 days Cash Conversion Cycle
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required closing processes‚ while demonstrating to them that I was competent with my allotted tasks by completing them in the time requested. She and Mr. Rackers had accepted my proposal. As the day came‚ she was resolving an issue from the previous accounting week‚ and was speaking with Mr. Whittaker about invoicing. After speaking with him‚ she had walked back to office‚ but stopped by my cubicle to check my progress. The conversation went
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Intermediate Accounting Paper The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is a private‚ not-for-profit organization whose primary purpose is to develop generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) within the United States in the public ’s interest. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) designated the FASB as the organization responsible for setting accounting standards for public companies in the U.S. It was created in 1973‚ replacing the Accounting Principles Board and the Committee
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Financial Statement Differentiation A Financial Statement can be defined as‚ “Summary report that shows how a firm has used the funds entrusted to it by its stockholders (shareholders) and lenders‚ and what is its current financial position” (Business Dictionary‚ 2011). The Financial information is required for various users to make an informed Decision. “The purpose of financial information is to provide inputs for decision making” (Kimmel‚ Weygandt‚ Kieso‚ 2009‚ Para 1‚ p. 6). There are four
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issued‚ securities are traded. Secondary Market – Financial market where previously issued securities (such bonds‚ notes‚ shares) and financial instruments (such as bills of exchange and certificates of deposit) are bought and sold. All commodity and stock exchanges‚ and over-the-counter markets‚ serve as secondary markets which (by providing an avenue for resale) help in reducing the risk of investment and in maintaining liquidity in the financial system. Risk – Probability that an actual return
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In recent years‚ the range of accounting application is expanding rapidly‚ along with the increasing demand of economic market. As is well known‚ accounting is a key aspect of business. And in the accounting profession‚ there has been already existed interpenetration and overlapping among the different kinds of accounting. Cost accounting and financial accounting are two main components of accountancy. The former one is a part of accounting. In cost accounting‚ it dramatically researches the variable
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Individual Financial Statements Paper ACC/290 Principles of Accounting Professor: Bruce Geddus January 8‚ 2014 Introduction to financial accounting and it ’s my turn to identify the four basic financial statements and to describe them as well. In this financial statement paper I will also be describing the four financial statements‚ discuss how the four financial statements are useful to internal users such as managers and employees. And last I will discuss
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