THE EFFECTS OF ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS ON FINANCIAL STATEMENT 5.1 ENTITY CONCEPT The first accounting concept is entity concept. These concept shows accounts are kept for entities and not the people who own or run the company. Even in proprietorships and partnerships‚ the accounts for the business must be kept separate from those of the owners. This is because what whatever amount the company owes to others is not the liabilities of the owners. The maximum amount that the owner is going to lose
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PACE UNIVERSITY- ACC-615 DR. FINN Financial Statement Analysis IBM and Microsoft Bill Jacoby 4/20/2010 Financial Statement analysis for two comparable companies; IBM and Microsoft ACC-615 Dr. Finn; William Jacoby Microsoft Corporation is the world’s largest software company. Microsoft has five operating segments; client‚ server and tools‚ online business services‚ Microsoft business division and entertainment and devices division. They develop personal computing software including the
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Chapter 4: Analysis of Financial Statements To keep this chapter from involving too much memorization‚ we provide our students with a formula sheet for use on exams. That makes a few of the questions trivially easy‚ but most require some thought‚ and some are downright challenging. Even the very easy ones make students think about the ratios. The challenging questions are labeled CHALLENGING‚ and most students will agree with that designation. Some of these questions are just definitions‚ but others
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Financial Statement Analysis A financial statement analysis will be presented for Microsoft Corporation. “Microsoft Corporation is engaged in developing‚ manufacturing‚ licensing and supporting a range of software products and services for different types of computing devices†(MSN.com‚ 2010). This corporation trades publicly (NASDAQ: MSFT) and does business in Puerto Rico with offices in Guaynabo‚ PR (services) and Humacao‚ PR (manufacturing and services). To measure their progress
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Financial Statements Paper Part I Stephanie Pomier ACC/497 December 15‚ 2014 Prof. Carolyn Lundy Financial Statements Paper Part I The Consolidated Statement of Earnings tells that the company’s gross profit declined over $2‚000‚ in the last two years. Their operating income declined‚ which is good because that means not much of the business’s money went to operating expenses. This statement is important because it shows the profitability of the company during the fiscal year. Business decisions
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Financial Statements Review Health Care Financial Accounting-HCS/405 May 4‚ 2015 Facilitator Introduction It is essential in any business‚ not just health care to understand how finances directly affect the growth‚ success and longevity of the business and all its parts. To truly understand how finance affects business it is important to gain knowledge and understanding of how the business generate revenue ‚the cash flow of money that comes into the business‚ how bills are paid and money leaves
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Lecturer: Shrimal Perera Sigma Pharmaceuticals Limited‚ 96 Merrindale Drive South Croydon‚ VIC‚ 3136 Australia Mr. Shrimal Perera Lecturer‚ Monash University 900 Dandenong Road Caulfield East VIC 3145 Dear Shrimal‚ Attached is the report you requested on for the 19th of May
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Merrill Lynch Financial Statements Guide Balance sheet – what company owns and owes at report date; assets = liabilities/equity Income statement – shows whether a company’s operation over a period of time (i.e. a year) was profitable or lost $$ Statement of changes in shareholders’ equity – reconciles activity in shareholders’ equity section of balance sheet from period to period; typically changes are due to company profits/losses‚ dividends‚ and/or stock issuance Cash flow statement – cash movements
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Financial Statement Analysis Through the analysis of three companies in different sectors‚ this paper will show some basic concepts‚ techniques‚ and conventions of financial accounting. The three different areas Team B covered include a manufacturing company (3M)‚ an IT service company (Fujitsu)‚ and a retail company (Publix). Team B used the information provided by these companies to calculate its main financial ratios‚ and compare those to the ratios common for the same industry and country
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