Accounting Theory – Seminar 2 Presentation Briefly describe the accounting profession/What is the role of accountants? Accountants analyse costs of operations‚ products‚ and special projects. Compute taxes owed‚ prepare tax returns. Organize and maintain financial records. Suggest ways to reduce costs‚ enhance revenues and improve profits‚ Improve businesses efficiency. Critically discuss the role of the CFO Andy Fastow in the ENRON scandal Fastow created hundreds/ of "special-purpose entities"–off
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CHEMALITE‚ INC. (B) Cash Flow Analysis 1991 1992 Mangesh Pansare‚ Rajesh Chavan‚ Shekhar Tewari‚ Vinay Thakker‚ Ranjan Prakash‚ Prajay Kumar Group 2 Executive Summary Bennett Alexander founded Chemalite‚ Inc. in the late 1990. The first year of operations has been very successful. In a meeting held in January 1992‚ the shareholders of the company approved moving the production facility to a larger location to support expanding sales. The shareholder meeting ended with a decision to meet
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Text and Cases Thirteenth Edition Robert N. Anthony Ross G. Walker Professor Emeritus Graduate School of Business Administration Harvard University David F. Hawkins Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration Graduate School of Business Administration Harvard University Kenneth A. Merchant Deloitte & Touche LLP Chair of Accountancy Leventhal School of Accounting University of Southern California McGraw-Hill Irwin Contents PARTI FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 1 Chapter 1 The Nature
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APPLIED FINANCIAL ANALYSIS (ACCT 411) PACKAGES LIMITED Group Members Introduction Page 3 Research Methodology Page 10 Analytical Adjustments Page 10 Ratio Analysis Page 15 Horizontal Analysis Page 21 Vertical Analysis Page 25 Cash Flow Statement Analysis Page 26 Recommendations Page 27 Limitations of Analysis Page 28 Work cited Page 29 Introduction We have chosen Packages Limited as the Company for the purposes of our analysis. We’ll be also analyzing Cherat
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ACC 2242 Assign#4.. Due Date …..Wednesday…Aug 07‚ 2013 8-35B 8-40B Fibre Systems Best Use of Facilities Analysis Make Buy and Use Facilities for Other Product Variable unit cost of obtaining the optical switches $ 13 $ 11 Number of optical switches × 80‚000 × 80‚000 Total variable cost of obtaining 80‚000 optical switches $1‚040‚000 $880‚000 Expected profit contribution from the other product — (130‚000) Expected
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1. An advantage of the corporate form of business is that: A. It has limited life. B. Its owner’s personal resources are at stake. C. Its ownership is easily transferable via the sale of shares of stock. D. It is simple to establish. E. It has double taxation. 2. External users want answers to all of the following questions except: A. Is the company earning satisfactory income? B. Will the company be able to pay its debts as they come due
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other functions. A company in a tight financial position will give more weight to financial consideration and devise its marketing and production strategies in the light of financial constrain. On the other hand management of the company‚ which has a regular supply of funds‚ will be more flexible in formulating its production and marketing policies. Hence financial management may be considered as one of the most important area in the field of management. Financial management is an integral part of
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MCQs in lecture from ch 2 1. Accounting theories should be A. Inductive B. Deductive C. Descriptive D. None of the given options is correct 2. Which of the following statements is true about accounting measurements such as profits and assets? A. They are subject to professional judgment B. They would not vary if prepared by different accountants‚ providing they were based on the same set of accounting standards C. They are based on hard‚ objective‚ evidence
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Michigan university | Is It Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis? | By Robert C. Pozen | | Luma Raha | 10/12/2011 | The article from the Harvard Business Review‚ "Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?" ‚ author Robert Pozen stipulates that the fair value accounting principles did not cause the financial crisis of 2008‚ but certainly aggravated it by common misconceptions about accounting standards. The article defines mark-to-market
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Missing Information in a Bank Reconciliation Survey of Accounting May 28‚ 2012 Missing information in bank reconciliation‚ the following data applies to Superior Auto Supply Inc‚ for May 2012. 1. Balance per the bank on May 31‚ $8‚000 2. Deposits in transit not recorded by the bank‚ $975 3. Bank error; check written by Allen Auto Supply was charged to Superior Auto Supply’s 4. The following check written an recorded by Superior Auto Supply
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