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the United States called HealthSouth[x1]. Later in 1996, the company was found out perpetrated by its executives of accounting fraud around 2.7 billion US dollars behind the fast growth during the years. This is due to the demand of increasing the stock price and meeting analyst expectations that unintentionally put the pressures on the company’s CEOs to continuously leverage its growth. With the supported environment, HealthSouth began to play tricks towards the law of accounting procedures and…

The accounting method used to account for investments in common stock depends on the level of control that the investor has over the acquired company (investee). The cost method is used if the investor lacks significant influence over the investee operating and financial policies; this lack of control is usually due to a common stock ownership level of less than 20 percent. Dividends are treated as income and recognized when the investee declares dividends; the investor records only the…

the doctoral thesis by Jeralyn Lambourne: “The Jews became an object of hatred after the stock market collapse in 1873, because many of them had been speculators in the market and were blamed for the crash.” Strauss took the opportunity by having a Jewish “stock” character Dr. Blind, Eisenstein lawyer. In Die Fledermaus, Dr. Blind is a timid person that stutters occasionally. He is one of the few characters in the operetta that is unique. Dr. Blind also portrays the current social class system…

trading based on the historical prices and involves buying shares when the market is improving and selling shares when the market is declining (Lakonishok, Shleifer and Vishny 1992). To evaluate the potential influence of institutional trading on stock market, the following analysis focus on how herding and positive-feedback trading contribute to the share price…

and can be bought or sold with little effect on the price of the securities. Furthermore, short term investments usually provide a firm with an increase in return on investments (ROI). Additionally, some short term securities include treasury bonds, stocks, mutual funds, money market funds or even certificates of deposits, in which a company may use to earn quick cash. Some firms have a short term investment account, if their financial position is strong; whereas the company makes investments to…

‎what extent. However, the overall effect of leverage on firm’s value is still a debatable issue and ‎there is no certainty about it. This research aims to examine the impact of capital structure decision ‎on firm value for firms listed on American stock exchanges and included within S&P 500 index, in ‎addition to examining determinants of leverage. Furthermore, the research tested empirically the ‎influence of leverage structure on firm value given different growth and size opportunities of…

The equation for the security market line is: E(r) = 8% + β(12.5% – 8%) y. The aggressive stock has a fair expected rate of return of: E(rA) = 8% + 2.0(12.5% – 8%) = 17% The security analyst’s estimate of the expected rate of return is also 17%. Thus the alpha for the aggressive stock is zero. Similarly, the required return for the defensive stock is: E(rD) = 8% + 0.7(12.5% – 8%) = 11.15% The security analyst’s estimate of the…

Prior to the Investopedia simulation I had very limited exposure to the stock market, only knowing of the existence of the TSX, NYSE, among other stock exchanges. Last year I started an Investopedia account and casually traded stocks without knowing any techniques or strategy, and managed my account which only had one or two stocks. I started it because I believed that Research in Motion, of whom was performing poorly on the stock exchange, would do better. I wanted to see if I was correct…

In this ethics case there are many relevant facts. Jon Williams is a CPA and the auditor of Oneway Corporation. Along with representing the Corporation, he also represents two of the three directors who are officers and each own one-third of the shares. President Jack is Jon’s tax client who founded Oneway Corporation but soon wishes to retire. He also wishes to consider selling all his shares to Vice President Jill, who is also an officer and stockholder owning one-third of shares. Bill, the…

Not surprisingly, they claim that overall the data supports the presence of more nonrandom behavior in the daily trades of only a few of the stocks on both exchanges (NYSE and TSE). In other words, the result of their analysis confirms that amongst a few of the stocks, there was a slight improvement in the efficiency of the trade transactions. However, further to their analysis they point out that existence of a high level of random behavior amongst the…