Question 3: Frieda‚ an accounting student‚ states: “Strategy analysis seems to be an unnecessary detour in doing financial statement analysis. Why can’t we just get straight to the accounting issues? “Explain to Frieda why she might be wrong. Without strategy analysis‚ it is impossible to identify what drive profits and what are key risks. Moreover‚ assessing firm’s current performance and doing realistic forecasts of future performance are also directly linked with firm’s strategy. Three important
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Describe the different obligations imposed by the implied and the express repair covenant in a lease. (list the various terminologies used and explain their meaning) A repair is ‘making good the damage so as to leave the subject as far as possible as though it had not been damaged’ defined in Clathorpe v McOscar 1924 Ultimately‚ the landlord wants to pass on the repairing responsibility to the tenant. Tenants will usually accept the responsibility as long as it is not too onerous. The phrase caveat
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Institution Introduction Observation of standard accounting practices is a requirement for publicly traded companies. The companies are obligated to follow strict accounting rules in the presentation of their financial statements to enable the readers of such statements to compare performances by different companies easily. Financial institution and shareholders of various private companies may also require private companies to comply with certain accounting standard. Local governments being the form of
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Political Issues with the Current Immigration SOC/315 December 12‚ 2011 Political Issues with the Current Immigration “In the wake of the Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1965. This new law abolished the national origins quota system and barred racial considerations from expressly entering into decisions about immigrant visas; it also imposed for the first time a ceiling (120‚000) on migration from the Western Hemisphere.” (Johnson‚ 2006). Historical Framework for
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Introduction Financial accounting is branch of accountancy that deals with the financial statements which helps in informing public as well other concerned people who are not involved in day to day working of a company‚ about its current financial performance. Different stages involved in financial accounting are governed by certain standards set by organisations such as The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). The standards made by IASB
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accepted auditing standards (GAAS)‚ includes A. A determination of efficiency and effectiveness. B. An examination of financial statements and underlying records for conformance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). It does this as well as generally accepted governmental auditing standards C. Tests for compliance with laws and regulations. D. Both B and C. 2. Government Auditing Standards (GAS) issued by the U.S. Comptroller General apply to A. Financial statement audits
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Executive Summary GAAP‚ generally accepted accounting principles‚ are the rules for preparing the financial statements. There are specialized professionals FASB‚ SEC‚ AAA‚ FEI‚ IMA‚ AIMR and others for developing GAAP. There are 13 principles for preparing Financial Statement. Business Entity Principle requires business to be separated from owner of the business. Going Concern principles requires the business to assume that the business will for long time. Revenue Recognition Principle considers
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Current Environmental Issues Tamisha Johnson Soc 120 Instructor Kerr June 19‚ 2010 Current Environmental Issues With the world’s population steadily increasing‚ our environmental issues are steadily changing. With this increase we are experiencing a loss of natural resources. Our forests are being torn down to meet the needs of growing cities. The reason for this is more demands for paper‚ wood‚ or even new land. With the help from everyone hopefully we can increase the demand to plant new
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Current issue of offshore banking Illegal (criminal) financial transactions Most of the illegal financial transaction in offshoring is related to underground economy activity. The illegal economy includes all sorts of criminal activities‚ which are in conflict with the legal system. According to Siska (1999)‚ drugs‚ violence‚ nightmare‚ weapon‚ economy and property is the main field of organized crime. A person in a country A will move the fund abroad by contact underground banker and deposit a
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Section-A 1. Discuss management accounting as an effective tool of financial control. 2. What do you mean by cash from operating activities? How is it calculated? 3. The “volume-cost-profit relationship provides management with a simplified framework for organizing its thinking on a number of problems.” Discuss 4. Recently a conference speaker discussing budgets & standard costs made the following statement- “Budgets & standard costs are not the same things‚ they have different purposes
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