260 JOURNAL ECONOMICSAND FINANCE 9 Volume28 9 Number 2 9 Summer 2004 OF THE CAUSAL RELATION BETWEEN GOVERNMENT REVENUE AND SPENDING: EVIDENCE FROM EGYPT AND JORDAN By Bassam AbuAI-Foul and Hamid Baghestani* Abstract In investigating the causal relation between government revenue and spending‚ our empirical results support the tax-and-spend hypothesis for Egypt and the fiscal synchronization hypothesis for Jordan. Breaking away from these historical trends is essential for both countries to
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Microsoft’s Financial Reporting Strategy Q1. What are the factors that likely explain the equity and its reported book value of equity? Question 1 2 3 4 5 6 1999 Market Capitalisation: USD 460 Billion Book Value: USD 28 Billion MVE more than 16 times of BVE! Factor 1 Question 1 2 3 4 5 6 Intangible Assets • BVE does not reflect certain intangible assets’ value such as brand‚ customer loyalty‚ and human capital – Likely to provide tremendous earnings growth
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1.0 Introductory part 1.1 Introduction: Financial statements are a structured representation of the financial position and financial performance of an entity. The objective of financial statements is to provide information about the financial position‚ financial performance and cash flows of an entity that is useful to a wide range of users in making economic decisions. Financial statements also show the results of the management’s stewardship of the resources entrusted to it. BRAC Bank is one
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Chapter 10 Question 1 Marks: 1 Which of the following is NOT a capital component when calculating the weighted average cost of capital (WACC)? Choose one answer. | a. Long-term debt. | | | b. Accounts payable. | | | c. Retained earnings. | | | d. Common stock. | | | e. Preferred stock. | | Correct Marks for this submission: 1/1. Question 2 Marks: 1 For a typical firm‚ which of the following sequences is CORRECT? All rates are after taxes‚ and assume the firm operates at its
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discontinued operations and before the effect of changes in accounting principles Discontinued Operations: A component of a business is defined as a segment for which operations and cash flows can be distinguished both operationally and for financial reporting purposes. It has to be sold in full. Check of impairment of segment if not sold off by the end of the year. Reported net of tax and must restate all previous reports. Asset Impairment: check undiscounted cf and reduce to fair value. Cannot
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company president and company controller have discussed this problem and the controller has mentioned this idea that if the company changed from LIFO TO FIFO it might be possible to maintain earning growth in 2008. He prepaid a memo to president explain how inventory flow assumption work and provides per forma income statement that show for one product adopting FIFO would allow Merrimack to report higher income in 2008 than it did in 2007 but higher income taxes would have to be paid. First Objective:
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A. The main purpose is to of the (IASB) develop and issue International Financial Reporting Standards and Exposure Drafts‚ and Approve Interpretations developed by the International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee (IFRIC). B. How is the IASB made up IASB is originally made up of 14 members from different countries with experience covering wide areas of accounting and business. The objectives of the ISAB are: (a) to develop‚ in the public interest‚ a single set of high
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the business will be short on the earnings this year. With this going on will cause problems with the financial responsibility toward the stakeholders. Mr. Reed located a transaction within the business that will work for the businesses financial responsibility‚ but with this transaction Mr. Reed would need to locate some legal and ethical ways to report this transaction on any of the financial reports. The transaction that Mr. Reed questions about was first sold some products on December 20th‚ 2010
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FRAMEWORK FOR FINANCIAL REPORTING SCOPE OF THE FRAMEWORK The existing framework deals with the ■ Objectives of financial statements; ■ Qualitative characteristics of financial statements; ■ Elements of financial statements; ■ Underlying Assumptions; ■ Recognition of the elements of financial statements; ■ Measurement of the elements of financial statements; and ■ Concepts of capital and capital maintenance OBJECTIVES The objective of general purpose financial reporting. The objective
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Financial Reporting Problem Part 1 Mark R. Mitchell XACC/290 August 10‚ 2014 Jeanette Butler Financial Reporting Problem Part 1 In the light of this week’s assignment of analyzing an annual report for a publicly traded company I decided to use the company now work for which is the spinoff company from the merger of international papers Xpedx division and Unisource; the new company name is Veritiv. Veritiv’s total assets for this accounting period are $1‚215 million dollars (Morningstar
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