A balance sheet‚ like a photo‚ provides a financial picture of a company on a given day and time. It categorizes all of a company’s resources as assets‚ all of its debts as liabilities‚ and all of the owner’s investments as equity. A company uses its assets‚ such as accounts receivable‚ inventory‚ and equipment‚ for manufacturing or purchasing products for sale or to provide a service. A company’s assets are financed by its liabilities (debt) and the owner’s equity (net worth). On a balance sheet
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owned or controlled to produce value and that is held to have positive economic value is considered an asset. Simply stated‚ assets represent value of ownership that can be converted into cash (although cash itself is also considered an asset).The balance sheet of a firm records the monetary value of the assets owned by the firm. It is money and other valuables belonging to an individual or business. Two major asset classes are tangible assets and intangible assets. Tangible assets contain various subclasses
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Balance Sheet and Income Statement Commentary Michael Turner BSA 500 – Business Systems I July 24‚ 2013 Simon Chen Balance Sheet and Income Statement Commentary Balance Sheets and Income Statements is an approach to review the overall financial status of the company. We will be reviewing four companies in different industries’ balance sheet and income statements. With a technique to combine the statements we will be able to evaluate the companies’ income‚ expense and stockholder’s equity in the
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Rent Expense | 6‚200 | Electricity Bill – paid on May 30‚ 2011 | 8‚500 | Land | 15‚000 | Depreciation Expense | 31‚750 | | | Required Prepare a fully classified vertical format Balance Sheet for Nguyen Bich Fitness Club as at June 30‚ 2011 EXERCISE 2. The following are account balances of Brickwork as | | | | at 31 December 2010: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Account | Amount ($) | | | | | | Plant & machinery | 25‚000 | | | | | |
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paper will discuss a financial statement that reports the assets‚ liabilities‚ and owners equity on January1‚ 2012 called the balance sheet. The report the reader will see below is a current balance sheet for a company called Custom Building that I personally work with. Working one on one with the owner has offered quite a bit of experience in the accounting world. The reader will be able to view the balance sheet below‚ following the explanation of the balance sheet for Custom Building discussed
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Example Company Balance Sheet December 31‚ 2011 ASSETS LIABILITIES Current Assets Current Liabilities Cash $ 2‚100 Notes Payable $ 5‚000 Petty Cash 100 Accounts Payable 35‚900 Temporary Investments 10‚000 Wages Payable 8‚500 Accounts Receivable - net 40‚500 Interest Payable 2‚900 Inventory 31‚000 Taxes Payable 6‚100 Supplies 3‚800 Warranty Liability 1‚100 Prepaid Insurance 1‚500 Unearned Revenues 1‚500 Total Current
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1.2 What is the difference between an annual report and a 10-K report? An annual report although could be consider as shorter version of 10k but the key difference lies in approach and intention of reporting‚ meaning with what point of view the document is prepared an annual report is persuasive in nature and persuade investors to invest with the corporation‚ printed on a glossy paper with attractive graphic and contains management spin‚ management could chose the level of detail to be provided
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Merck Consolidated Balance Sheet | | | | | | € million | ------------------------------------------------- Note | ------------------------------------------------- Dec. 31‚ 2012 | ------------------------------------------------- Dec. 31‚ 2011 | ------------------------------------------------- Jan. 1‚ 2011 | 1 | Previous year’s figures have been adjusted‚ see Note [5] | | Current assets | ------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------
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1. Q:Collect Balance Sheet of five different companies. Try to analyse it in your own words. Analysis can be in terms of change in profit‚ asset‚ liabilities. Etc ZYNGA [pic] The First comapny we’ll be looking at is Zynga. Let’s jump right into it. Across the board‚ the Total Current Assets is less than the previous year‚ more more than other earlier years. This could indicate that the company may have liquidized some of their assests within the year. Total Assests is greater than the
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Assignment - A Question 1(a) What do you understand by the concept of conservatism ? Why is it also called the concept of prudence? Why is it not applied as strongly today as it used to be in the Past? Question 1(b) What is a Balance Sheet? How does a Funds Flow Statement differ from a Balance Sheet? Enumerate the items which are usually shown in a Balance Sheet and a Funds Flow Statement. Question 2(a) Discuss the importance of ratio analysis for inter-firm and intra-firm comparisons including circumstances
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