Name: Dinh Thi Quyen Class: A4 – LT6B Number: 24 Essay: Importance of financial statements to managers‚ investors and creditors Financial statements are important reports. They show how a business is doing and are very useful internally for a company’s stockholders and to its board of directors‚ its managers and some employees‚ including labor unions. Externally‚ they are important to prospective investors‚ to government agencies responsible for taxing and regulating‚ to lenders such as
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Lucent Technologies Evaluate the asset‚ debt‚ and equity structure of Lucent Technologies‚ as well as trends and changes found on the common-size balance sheet. After reading case 2.1 about Lucent Technologies we see that their assets had a big decline from the years 2003 to 2004. The one thing that was good was that Lucent’s inventory holdings where able to rise during those years. In the case Lucent’s current assets of 2003 made up 49.4% of the company’s total assets. But as we see in 2004
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What financial and non financial motivators are used to motivate employees? Introduction It is important that a company makes the employee feel motivated. There are many reasons as to why they should do this. One of the reasons is that if an employee does not feel motivated then they may feel that their job is quite boring and therefore as a result of this they may decide to leave the employment and resign. If they do this‚ this would cost the company money to hire and recruit a new employer as
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Executive summary * Strong global position in the industry of electronic and electrical equipment. * Acquisition is a central part of the Spectrics strategy. * Customers are the globally spread blue chip companies. * Spent around 7% of sale average on research and development in each year. * Aftersales‚ service and consumables are important which is represent 26% of sales. * IRM group and Sixnet were acquired by spending £5.1m using the bolt acquisition method. * Archived
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Financial Information 1. Why is financial information important for a business- provide four reasons * For owners and managers to be able to make sensible business decisions. * For prospective investors to know where the company stands financially. * Financial institutions such as banks can use this information to decide whether to give the company things such as loans etc. * For everyone within the company to understand its financial position‚ regarding assets‚ liabilities‚ equity
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Financial Statement Analysis for Investors Michael Price MBA640: Accounting for Decision Making Dr. Ulinski December 11‚ 2012 Table of Contents: Section I: Introduction (Page 3) Section II: Literature Review (Page 4) Section III: Methodology and Data Collection (Page 5) Section IV: Results (Page 6) a. Income Statement Analysis (Page 7) b. Balance Sheet Analysis (Page 11) c. Statement of Cash flow Analysis (Page 14) Section V: Conclusion (Page 16) a. Recommendation
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How can a company use information technology to make its company financial plans? Information technology offers a great depth of knowledge to many companies when making financial plans. Information system helps businesses to gather and share information which is vital in financial planning of any kind of business enterprise‚ for instance customer’s preferences‚ and business environment. That’s why is recommendable to have in depth knowledge of your business so as to make of the right kind system
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What financial information should be routinely provided to board members? Generally‚ financial information that is provided to board members only has two uses‚ to evaluate the financial condition of the organization and to assess the operational efficiency of the organization. It is usually not necessary to provide detailed financial information to the board. However‚ if there are significant deviations in the quality of care and the plans of the organization are not being met‚ more detailed
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activities that shape three major activities: financing‚ investing‚ and operating. Financing is the means a company uses to pay for resources. Investing refers to the buying and selling of resources necessary to carry out the organization’s plans. Operating activities are the actual carrying out of these plans. Planning is the glue that connects these activities‚ including the organization’s ideas‚ goals and strategies. Financial accounting information provides valuable input into the planning process‚
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Lending Decisions Assignment LOAN APPRAISAL REPORT Title: AFW 3841 Assignment By: Umasuthan Rengasamy (20365853) To: Dr. Sockalingam Faculty: School of Business and Economics Date of Submission: 4 May 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Company Profile 3. The Financial Performance (3 years) 4. The Proposed Project 5. Capital & Financials 6. Capacity 7. Collateral 8. Conditions 9. Compliance Issues 10. Justification for the Loan 11. Loan Decision and Terms
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