Financial statement analysis

Holly Shilling Dr. David Morris March 20, 2016 Accounting 2102 International Financial Reporting Standards Say you want to buy stocks in a cell phone manufacturing company. How do you know which company to invest in? A good business plan would be to compare the financial statements for each competing company. A task as such would be nearly impossible if there were not a standard system of financial records. In 1973, with the growing amount of international trade, the International Accounting…

accounting. So to begin, a basic understanding of derivatives is that they are a binding contract between two or more parties. The contract is for a future transaction of some underlying financial asset. The purpose for companies to implement derivatives are to aide them in managing risk by using a type of financial forwards, futures, options, or swaps. For example, a forward contract is when Company A believes Company B’s stock price will substantially increase over the next year. However,…

In terms of analyzing the financial crisis, most of the researches had been done based on the traditional critical discourse analysis. Bickes, Otten and Weymann (2014) concentrate on the instances of metaphorical language in the news coverage of three international news magazines to investigate how these three media present the crisis differently. Fonseca and Ferreira (2015) adopted the Critical Discourse Analysis to explore the discursive legitimation strategies adopted by Portuguese government…

1. The Role of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman a) Compare and contrast the position of the US and UK rules/codes of Corporate Governance relating to the roles of CEO and Chairman. (10%) In the U.S., corporate governance is determined predominantly by legislation in the form of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ("SOX") and detailed regulations which SOX required the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") and NASDAQ to draw up. In UK there is the…

concern issue to how it affects auditors and the challenges that auditors risk in issuing a going concern or not. As Bor-Yi and Sean Chen focus on this article “is to present the relevant issues surrounding the topic of the going concern assumption in financial reporting and auditing.” Bor-Yi and Sean Chen started their article by talking about that the going concern assumption has been under review for the past decade due to many businesses going bankrupt these last ten years such as General…

companies on a standard to- standard basis; when the IASB would issue new standards, FASB would decide whether to adopt them. As described in a May 2011 SEC staff paper, Work Plan for the Consideration of Incorporating International Financial Reporting Standards into the Financial Reporting System for U.S. issuers: Exploring a Possible Method of…

never before, the role, responsibility, and accountability of the audit committee continue to be the focus of lawmakers, regulators, and shareholders. The audit committee's role in overseeing a company's financial reporting process, including the audits (and auditors) of the financial statements, is more visible and demanding.” (KPMG, 2003). The widening of the role of the AC is part of a greater plan in relation to the “globalisation” of corporate…

policies and principles. Firms especially those operating at multinational levels largely require to embrace common set of financial reporting frameworks in a bid to enhance uniformity and consistency in financial reports. Different countries all over the world have been evident to adopt varying standard that govern the presentation and recognition of the items in financial reports. However, with the current trends towards globalization, companies in the US have grown interests in embracing…

preparation of the required financial statements. Estimates in this case relate to the use of precise amounts in financial statement elements that cannot be precisely determined. Therefore the amounts are subjective and lack precision because they are plagued by the use of subjective management foresight to determine the values utilized in the financial reports. Where the use of estimates is encouraged there is definitely a lack of accuracy and reliability of the financial information…

It is important that financial statement to be relevant, transparent and truly represent the financial information in the accounting principle, therefore, updating clear and new accounting regulations and formulas is imperative in the fickle market. IFRS is used in around 100 nations (K and J, 2009), which is set by The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) engages a close relationship with the stakeholder all over the world. In 2011, IASB issued IFRS 13 fair value measurement aim to…