STUDENT CASES to accompany Accounting & Auditing Research: Tools & Strategies‚ 8e NOTE: In addition to the in-chapter and end-of-chapter exercises which serve as short cases you will find the following short cases arranged by course title that can also be utilized as short cases that require the student to access the authoritative literature to address the issue presented in the case. Solutions to the cases below are available to instructors on the Weirich Accounting & Auditing Research
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3101AFE TUTORIAL 2 - Semester 2 2013 Deegan Topics 2 and 3: The financial reporting environment and Regulation of financial accounting 2.1 What expectations do accounting standard-setters have about the accounting knowledge of financial statement readers? Accounting standard-setters have an expectation that the readers of general purpose financial reports have a ‘reasonable knowledge’ of accounting. Specifically‚ the IASB Framework states that ‘users are expected to have
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Chapter 3 FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS Copyright ©2015 Pearson Education‚ Inc. All rights reserved. 2-1 Financial Statement Analysis • Investors often use accounting statements to: – Compare the firm with itself by analyzing how the firm has changed over time – Compare the firm to other similar firms using a common set of financial ratios Copyright ©2015 Pearson Education‚ Inc. All rights reserved. 2-2 Why are ratios useful? • Ratios standardize numbers and facilitate
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Income statements For the year ended 30 June 2008 : : Consolidated Notes Parent entity 2008 $’000 2007 $’000 2007 $’000 2008 $’000 Revenue from continuing operations 5 1‚354‚419 1‚230‚513 64‚453 208‚833 Cost of goods sold Other income Selling‚ general and administrative expenses Other expenses Finance costs 7 6 7 7 7 (608‚040) --(399‚411) (76‚420) (24‚986) (570‚979) 671 (355‚483) (63‚422) (19‚486) ----(1‚733) (15‚888) (21‚298)
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Financial Statement Analysis Project You (or your group) are required to conduct a comprehensive financial statement analysis of two companies. You may choose either to compare WalMart and Target or Coors and Boston Beer Co. You may work individually‚ or in groups of two members. The purpose of this project is to provide you an opportunity to apply the analytical techniques studied in Chapters 3‚ 9 and 11. In conducting this analysis‚ take the perspective of a common stock investor. You
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QUESTION 1 1. How do a proprietorship and corporation differ? If you worked for a CPA firm‚ which would you recommend to your client and why? Explain in your own words. The difference between proprietorship and corporation is that proprietorship is only owned by 1 person and corporation is owned by either 1 person or a group of people. It also differs from the liability because a proprietorship has unlimited liability and a corporation has limited liability. When a proprietorship is sued‚
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Financial Statement Analysis MBA 6150 Financial Statement Analysis – Verizon Communications Abstract The process of developing financial statements for a business is to provide supporting documentation to what has been reported as annual or quarterly income. Within the financial statement analysis strengths and weaknesses are identified through the comparison of data from the balance sheet. There are many different ways to interpret the data that is utilized for the analysis; those
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organisations has really established the fact that financial statements shall contain the following information according to section 334(2) of the companies and allied matters act (CAMA) 1990 as well as statement of accounting standards (SAS) 2:profit and lossaccount;balance sheet; a statement of cash flow; value added statement; five-year financial summary; statement of significant accounting policies; notes to the accounts; group financial statement (in case of a group); chairman’s report; directors’s
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Introduction‚ Review of Accounting Process & Financial Statements Part I • Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) Generally Accepted Accounting Principles or U.S. GAAP refer to the standard framework of guidelines for financial accounting used in any given jurisdiction; generally know as Accounting Standards. GAAP includes the standards‚ conventions‚ and rules accountants follow in recording and summarizing‚ and in the preparation of financial statements (Wikipedia‚ n.d.). Although quite
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