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    Financial Statements Paper ACC/290 Income statements chronicle the gains or deficiencies of a company’s operations over a period of time‚ by reporting all revenues and expenses. These statements are processed each month‚ and at the end of the fiscal year. Income statements include definite expenses and revenues. Sometimes these statements are also known as P&L statements or profit and loss. The second statement is known as a retained earnings statement. This is for displaying

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    Financial statements are essential accounting tools which include balance sheets‚ cash flow statements‚ and income statements that provide information on a company ’s past and present financial history. Information on financial statements can be used by any number of public and private entities to determine if an organization ’s financial status is healthy. Burger King and McDonald ’s are two organizations that use financial statements in conducting business. Further‚ this paper will discuss the

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    Medtronic ’s Ratings Earning Power I would rank Medtronic ’s earning power at a 9 on a scale of 1 (very weak) to 10 (very strong). Medtronic has successfully demonstrated their ability to grow and provide substantial return to their owners. Medtronic ’s net earnings have steadily increased from $984.0 million in 2002‚ to $1599.8 million in 2003‚ to $1959.3 million in 2004. Their total assets have increased 13.7% from $12‚405.5 million in 2003 to $14‚110.8 million in 2004. These measures show

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    Graduate School Theses and Dissertations Graduate School 6-1-2008 Detecting financial statement fraud: Three essays on fraud predictors‚ multi-classifier combination and fraud detection using data mining Johan L. Perols University of South Florida Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd Part of the American Studies Commons Scholar Commons Citation Perols‚ Johan L.‚ "Detecting financial statement fraud: Three essays on fraud predictors‚ multi-classifier combination and

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    2002:53 Financial Statement Fraud - Recognition of Revenue and the Auditor’s Responsibility for Detecting Financial Statement Fraud - Tiina Intal and Linh Thuy Do Graduate Business School School of Economics and Commercial Law Göteborg University ISSN 1403-851X Printed by Elanders Novum Abstract Financial reporting frauds and earnings manipulation have attracted high profile attention recently. There have been several cases by businesses of what appears to be financial statement fraud

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction…………………………………………………………………………….....1 1.1 Relationship between Holding/parent company- subsidiary………………………….2 2.1 Consolidated Financial Statement…………………………………………………….4 3.1 The concept of Goodwill……………………………………………………………...5 3.1.1 Computation of Goodwill…………………………………………………………...6 3.1.2 Computation of negative Goodwill………………………………………………...7 4.1 The recommendation of the IASB……………………………………………………8 5.1 IFRS 36 Impairment of Assets………………………………………………………..9 6.1 IFRS

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    parties that may ultimately rely on the client’s financial statements? Should auditors insist that audit engagement letters identify the third parties to whom the client intends to distribute the audited financial statements? Would this practice eliminate auditors’ legal liability to nonprivity parties not mentioned in engagement letters?   During an audit it is the auditors responsibility to give their opinion on a company’s financial statements to its shareholders. However‚ the main purpose of

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    be helping us understand financial statement analysis in a much broader way. It will also help us understand the implications of financial statement analysis to the management. This report will contribute additional knowledge on how to analyze the financial position of a company to determine if it is earning or losing. II. OBJECTIVES 1. Know and explain the various ways financial statements are analyzed. 2. Know and explain the objectives of financial statement analyses. 3. Know

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    1002 FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT NAME:ANG KOK SENG I/C NUMBER:910420-10-5945 H/P NUMBER:+6012-7895400 STUDENT ID:201059 NAME OF LECTURER:MR. LOH YONG CHIANG SUBMISSION DATE:2nd OCTOBER 2011 SEPTEMBER 2011 SEMESTER ASSIGNMENT QUESTION: Compare Cash Flow statement and Balance sheet. Describe the accounting process in preparing a balance sheet. How are balance sheet and Accounting equation related and what is T account? Describe the steps in analyzing financial statement and explain

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    Material Financial Statement Review What is the net income for the current fiscal year? Is it up or down from the prior year? Why would this information be important to investors? For FY15 the total consolidated income for Walmart is $17‚099 million. In FY14 Walmart recorded a loss from FY13‚ but is showing an increase with $16‚695 million in FY14 to FY15. Page 38 of the Annual Financial Report shows these figures along with many other figures. Investors look at the Annual Financial Report to

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