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JPMorgan Chase & Co. posted higher profit than Wall Street expected as higher credit-card spending and investment banking fees combined to overpower sliding revenue from bond-trading. Earnings of $1.82 a share in the three months through June compared with the $1.59 average of analysts' estimates from FactSet, and net income rose 13% to $7.03 billion. Rising interest rates after two hikes this year by the Federal Reserve pushed net interest income -- the difference between what banks charge to…

basis of accounting. The cash basis you recognize a transaction when there is either incoming cash or outgoing cash. The receipt of cash from a customer triggers the recordation of revenue, while the payment of a supplier triggers the recordation of an asset or expense. The accrual basis you record revenue when it is earned and expenses when they are incurred, irrespective of any changes in cash. Accrual accounting is an accounting method that measures the performance and position of…

C. Each for-profit corporation’s objective is to grow, increase revenues and expand its business. Groupon has shown a significant growth by performing mergers and acquisitions to expand the business; however, it has not been successful in maintaining a healthy financial position from a bottom line perspective. Although, the company has shown an increase is revenues in the four-year consolidated income statement (statement of operations exhibit 4), it has failed to generate profits each year…

iciency Measures The efficiency measures help to analyse the efficiency of the organisation in using its liabilities and assets. Furthermore, it helps to observe the amount of revenue that the company is capable of earning using a certain amount of investment. The asset turnover ratio is used to analyse the amount of revenue earned by the company over the invested assets. Looking at the financial statements, it can be seen that the asset turnover ratio of the company has gradually decreased in…

FieldFx is the elimination of revenue leakage. Reducing errors on revenue generating activities is achieved by decreasing missed-keyed field data into the invoice, mispriced items on tickets and even lost tickets that never get submitted. Most errors occur due to outdated methods that rely on paper and manual input or a non-specific software with limited capabilities. FieldFx will allow Eagle Pipe to maximize revenue captured by two to four percent on average. Maximizing revenue is accomplished…

receivables. This large amount of days in aging for accounts receivable is withholding cash that the company could use for their operations. The revenues steadily increased from 2011 to 2013, however the revenues sharply decreased from 2013 to 2015 almost cutting the revenues in 2013 in half by the time 2015 was recorded. This drastic decrease in revenues could be due to several factors, including but not limited to, several projects that were stalled or delayed by developers during their…

Capital Structure I will discuss the stock and capital structure of Oracle Corporation used to grow the corporation worldwide and strengthen research and development efforts. Corporations raise capital by issuing common and preferred stock, by exchanging an ownership stake and sharing profits with investors. The corporation experienced significant growth since the inception growing to over a $30B in recent years. Publicly traded corporations have risk associated with the stock price in relation…

keeping the Nazi movement alive for as long as it did. The Nazi accountants are referred to as “desk-killers” even though they were not precisely inculpable for the killings, on the account that they recorded the statements that masked the killings as revenue. Oskar Groening was 21 years of age when he was stationed to work at Auschwitz. He was a bank clerk before joining the Waffen-SS, where he got…

capital that funds its strategic investments needed to cash of its investment in the company, and in order to attract another investor or position itself for acquisition, the company wanted to increase their revenues by 50% by the end of the next year (2001). In order to achieve this increase in revenue, the small natural yogurts company would need to grow their sales from $13 million to $20 million by the end of next year. Natureview yogurt was founded in 1989, and its key value was flavor…

Financial Expansion Analysis Summary Capital budgeting is an important decision making tool used to help organizations decide whether to accept or reject potential projects. Through applying this method to Mel & Bud Inc. one is able to determine if the company should purchase new equipment to increase the company’s printing capabilities. Additionally, capital budgeting occurs in three steps, finding the required rate of return via the weighted average cost of capital (WACC), calculating…