Future Earnings Management Activities at Maynard Manufacturing Company (Page 54) Examples | GAAP-based | Latitude by GAAP | Fraud? | 1 | Yes | Yes (Gray Area) | No | 2 | Yes | Yes (Gray Area) | No | 3 | Yes | Yes (Black Area) | No | 4 | Yes | Yes (White Area) | No | 5 | Yes | Yes (Gray Area) | No | 6 | Yes | Yes (Black Area) | No | 7 | Yes | Yes (Black Area) | Yes | 8 | Yes | Yes (White Area) | No | 9 | No | Black Area | Yes | 10 | Yes | Yes (White Area) | No | 11 | Yes |
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Impact of interest rate on Market Interest rate is one of the most prominent macroeconomic factors among many other macroeconomic factors. It has direct impact not only on our market but also on other macro economic factors like inflation‚ money supply and investment. Government uses this powerful tool to control money supply‚ inflation‚ recession‚ employment and also investment pattern. Over all‚ we can say that through interest rate government controls the economic phases of a country. Now in
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The first factor goes to compensating wages differentials which arises due to non-monetary characteristics of different jobs. Jobs considered intrinsically less attractive compared to average jobs will tend to pay higher wages. For example‚ coal miners who work at high risk due to unpleasant working environment are paid more than others with similar levels of education. Besides that‚ odd working hours such as night shifts pays negative compensating differentials as well. The second factor is
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Classificatory smoothing of Income with Extraordinary Items - Summary Within this paper they talk about whether extraordinary items are used to smooth ordinary or operating income over time. The role of extraordinary items was never really looked at become separately and that is what they wanted to look at. They talk about how previously the focus was on net income after extraordinary items but that it is important to look at net income before extraordinary items also
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| When Managing Earnings Becomes Illegal | | | Jeneen Davis | 2/27/2011 | | MSAF 670/Spring 2011 University of Maryland University College Professor John Halstead Introduction The concept of earnings management is not a new thing. Its practice is actually very common among most companies. Managing earnings is not all necessarily bad. However‚ there is a fine line that shouldn’t be crossed. Corporate managers are under extreme pressures when it comes to meeting forecasted
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INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Sofia “Earnings management‚ in exchange listed companies‚ is not fraud but a case of caveat emptor for investors” Coursework in BUSINESS FINANCIAL CRIME Student registration No: 479866 Program: International Finance and Trade‚ Level 2 Lecturer: A. Paparizov “Earnings management‚ in exchange listed companies‚ is not fraud but a case of caveat emptor for investors” With the development of the stock markets and the huge grow in the volume of money traded
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Case 5-1 Income Smoothing a. Firstly‚ investors tend to invest in companies with stable earnings rather than one with volatile earnings. With stable earnings‚ there will be more likely an issuance of dividends and investors could easily predict the company’s future earnings compared to one with unstable earnings. With consistent earnings generated‚ it gives investors a secured feeling that it will again generate earnings as predicted. Confidence in the growth of rate of earnings is crucial because
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Ways to improve the earnings quality in acquisitions and mergers In recent years‚ acquisition and merger activities have boomed as result of improvement in economy and corporate earning. Along with the growing acquisitions and mergers‚ the risk of earnings manipulation and fraud embedded in related complicated transactions has also increased. From past experiences‚ three most common areas that have high risk of earnings management are research and development expenditure‚ restructuring costs
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Introduction The income smoothing literature has been the centre of attention in the accounting world for the past few decades. When companies experience economic turbulence due to a poor performance year‚ they turn to the accounting management department to resolve the bottom line. A strategy that managers can approach is changing the true information content of the company. As a result this has led managers to resort to smoothing their income. Many questions have been raised whether or not it
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DTE is wrong 2. Capex 3. Defrev 4. Contributed capital 5. Retained earnings Cash received 1. DTE is wrong 2. Capex 3. Defrev 4. Contributed capital 5. Retained earnings Cash received 1. DTE is wrong 2. Capex 3. Defrev 4. Contributed capital 5. Retained earnings Cash received 1. DTE is wrong 2. Capex 3. Defrev 4. Contributed capital 5. Retained earnings Cash received 1. DTE is wrong 2. Capex 3. Defrev 4. Contributed capital 5. Retained earnings Cash received
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