Introduction Proper cash management and efficient short-term financing are both important and beneficial to a company in order to maintain a competitive market share‚ which will increase profit potential and shareholder value through rising stock. Cash management can be used to lower or eliminate idle cash balances that do not earn revenue‚ using the freed up cash as sources for short-term financing through interest building securities. Short-term financing allows a company to secure needed funds
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purchase and lease defaults are rampant. In your opinion‚ what are the effects of defaulted capital leases to the lessor‚ lessee and economy as a whole? Should FASB consider rewriting capital lease allowances‚ even on a temporary basis‚ until the economy recovers? Give an example to support your opinion. When companies default on a capital lease‚ the economy is hurt as a whole. Both the lessor and lessee are hurt financially. The lessor has to cover the extra expense of the property that should be
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EXAMPLES OF ACCOUNTS FALLING UNDER EACH ACCOUNTING EQUATION ELEMENT: Current Assets Cash - A current asset account which includes currency‚ coins‚ checking accounts‚ and undeposited checks received from customers. The amounts must be unrestricted. (Restricted cash should be recorded in a different account.) Petty Cash Fund - A current asset account that represents an amount of cash for making small disbursements for postage due‚ supplies‚ etc. Notes Receivable - An asset representing the
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Dynamism has always created opportunities but with the creation of opportunities‚ threats are also shaped. In addition‚ change creates opportunities that form strengths for some companies and weaknesses for others. The Dynamism that took place created many opportunities for companies from advance markets. For example companies like IBM that is one of the big companies already in the U.S with high technology which efficiently benefited from the change. IBM changed its strategy quickly in order to
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Cash sales‚ $150‚000 Credit sales‚ $450‚000 Selling and administrative expenses‚ $110‚000 Sales returns and allowances‚ $30‚000 Gross profit‚ $490‚000 Accounts receivable‚ $110‚000 Sales discounts‚ $14‚000 Allowance for doubtful accounts credit balance‚ $1‚200 How much is bad debt expense assuming that 5% of accounts receivable is estimated to be uncollectible? A. $5‚500 B. $6‚700 C. $4‚240 D. $4‚300 Answer: Bad debt expense ($4‚300) = 5% of accounts of accounts receivable
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Accounts receivable is a legally enforceable claim for payment from a business to its customer/clients for goods supplied and/or services rendered in execution of the customer’s order. These are generally in the form of invoices raised by a business and delivered to the customer for payment within an agreed time frame. Accounts receivable is shown in a balance sheet as an asset. It is one of a series of accounting transactions dealing with the billing of a customer for goods and services that the
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Being brought up in a house full of hard working American citizens where each person helped the world positively in a different way has helped implant positive ethics and values into my overall character. As a child all I could remember was how hard my family worked. My father would work overtime at General Motors‚ while my mother would put her love for creativity into people’s homes by wallpapering and painting. Growing up in this type of atmosphere allowed me several advantages. I could have
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DOES M&A ACTIVITY ADD VALUE? A LITERATURE REVIEW AND CASE STUDY Abstract In this paper we explore the motivations for corporate acquisitions and critically evaluate whether acquisitions add to shareholder wealth – both from an acquirer and target perspective. We find that the time period over which shareholder wealth is measured‚ the payment form and the nature of the bid all have an effect on the findings. A case study of the ABN AMRO acquisition by RBS is examined to validate the findings from
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earnings‚ retained profit and unappropriated profit. what is the accumulated profit and why do accountants and bookkeepers use different names for the same thing? (6 marks) Accumulated profits is profits that are not paid as dividend but is transfered over to the accounts for the next year. Also can be used to reinvest in the core of the business to help pay off debts or to purchase a capital asset. The reasons why accountants and bookkeepers use different names for the same thing is because bookkeepers
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A REFLECTIVE ACCOUNT OF MY PERSONAL CULTURE AND EXPERIENCES THAT INFLUENCES THE SUPPORT GIVEN TO USERS OF SERVICES AND OTHERS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS Nowadays‚ people are becoming more aware of their own beliefs‚ culture and values which are vital in health care settings. Being in a different country with diverse cultural and religious beliefs‚ I personally believe in the existence of God and Jesus as our saviour. Therefore‚ as much as possible I follow and put into practice the teachings
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