The Chief Financial Officer David Dyck discovered $300-million in expenses were misclassified after he attempted a re-examination of the company’s accounting practices. CEO Dave Robert gained an “individual account” of 185%. When working out the full compensation, his total compensation roughly totalled $3.5 million for the year. After news of accounting irregularities, Penn West Petroleum Ltd. shares falling 17.4% before pulling back. Penn West shares closed at $8.57, down 13.78%, still some…
FINANCIAL STATEMENT (2014) (detailed data shown in the appendix 1) General Description & Comments General Description The table 1.4(detailed data shown in the appendix) represents the calculation of all the ratios needed for estimating the profitability of the company in a 3-year period. In the table there are the calculated margins for profitability, leverage – to estimate the amount of debt in the company’ assets. In 2013 and 2014, EasyJet was not highly leveraged, because the amount of debt…
The operational efficiency of the company is in a strong position after their acquisition of Saks Fifth Avenue and increased revenues over the last fiscal year with a 1.9% increase in gross margin from the last year. HBC ended the year with a 55.8% increase of working capital from 2013, caused primarily due to a $299 million increase in inventory, which was necessary to support the increased retail sales. HBC’s competitor, Nordstrom, has a working capital of $2,424 million due to having a large…
The Supreme Court noted that IPL did not enjoy “complete dominion over the deposits” compared to other advance payment cases. IPL had an obligation to repay the deposits once the customers achieved good credit or terminated their service. More importantly, IPL did not require a minimum purchase once a customer paid such deposit. IPL also considered the deposits as a loan and paid back the refunds along with interest if funds were held longer for 6 months. With these facts, the Supreme Court…
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Benchmarking in a healthcare facility is extremely important because it will show where improvements need to be made. In other words, there are certain performance measures that should be monitored for the purpose of maximizing reimbursement. The performance measures include days in accounts receivable (A/R) and claims at first pay rate. First, there is days in A/R, which is important to strive to have it over 90 days. In other words, this relates to having patient claims being paid within 90…
There are many budgets that accountants and business people like to use. Three of the business budgets that are most common and that are used often, especially in my business are the sales,expense and purchase budget. A sales budget is a plan of a business sales outlook based on the number of units that are expected to produce within a specified time period. Expense budgets are non- manufacturing departments such as the sales,marketing,accounting, engineering, and facilities department. A…
Cash is a very important asset in a business. Without it the business would cease to be able to operate. It is required to make purchases and to pay expenses. This means that having a healthy cash flow every year is essential to the Rocky Mountain’s success. Over the years Rocky Mountain has been slowly decreasing its cash intake, to the point where the company is losing cash every year. Beginning with 2011 the company had an increase in cash of $13.893 million. In 2012, it dropped to $3.145…
Force readiness is dynamic process, encompasses many functions, and influenced by many qualitative and quantitative factors affecting force readiness. The readiness of the Army is costly process due to its established force structure, as measured by its ability to station, control, man, equip, replenish, modernize, and train its forces in peacetime, while concurrently planning to mobilize, deploy, employ, and sustain them in war to accomplish assigned missions. Meanwhile, current unstable…
of working capital of an enterprise. The study undertaken is also important so as to ascertain the impact of non-availability of working capital in time to SME’s, on SME’s, large enterprises and the economy as a whole. NATURE OF THE STUDY: STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM The problem which is addressed in this study is one of the most talked about issue i.e. the problem of timely availability of working capital to SME’s. The above mentioned problem will be addressed in this study by a…