415 Search Results for Accounting for Off Balance Sheet
Balance Sheet Activities
Off-sheet balance activities are of particular interest to investors as well as the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) because these accounts can be difficult to identify and track and, in some cases, can even repr Continue Reading...
This indicates that none is capable of outperforming the market with the use of something that 'that everybody else knows'. Still there exists a number of financial analysis those study the past trend of stock prices and the trend in trading volume Continue Reading...
Balance Sheet Items
Off-Balance Sheet Items
This paper examines off-balance sheet items and their treatment in financial systems analysis. Balance sheets consist of information about a company's assets, liabilities, and owner's equity. Off-balance Continue Reading...
Balance Sheet Financing
The SEC's definition of "off-balance sheet arrangement" includes any contractual arrangement to which an unconsolidated entity is a party under which the registrant has any obligation under certain guarantee contracts, a ret Continue Reading...
financial crisis was abusive off-balance sheet accounting. Abusive off-balance sheet accounting led to a daisy chain of ineffective and dysfunctional decision-making because it removed transparency from regulators, investors, and markets. Spread of Continue Reading...
Balance Sheet
Question/Statement: Select either the balance sheet or income statement and explain how the use of it may be applied to your everyday life.
The balance sheet may be applied to everyday life in that it can be used to assess past perfor Continue Reading...
The attention on cases of impairment has generally been reduced, but this is expected to increase with the more emphasis placed on financial analysis and audits, a need generated by the contemporaneous economic crisis (Wayman, 2009). As an addition Continue Reading...
Balance Sheet
Financial analysis is critical to determining the intrinsic value of a company. Analysts, hedge funds, institutional investors and retail investors alike all use various forms of information to determine a fair price to pay for a secur Continue Reading...
By re-characterizing the Repo 105 dealing as a sale, Lehman detached the account from its balance sheet (Durden, 2010).
Lehman frequently augmented its utilization of Repo 105 transactions in the time previous to reporting interludes to decrease it Continue Reading...
Accounting standards and IFRS adoption in Cambodia and Thailand
The significance of accounting standards
Accounting may be considered as a business language through which the statistical results can be acquired which help in analyzing how well the Continue Reading...
. Some important ideas to keep in mind are that historical cost can be more reliable than fair value accounting (Flegm, 2008). As Laux and Leuz (2010) note, some have argued that fair value accounting was partly responsible for the great financial cr Continue Reading...
FASB Accounting Case
New Standards for Capital Leases
Case Overview and Key Issues
Sable., a company located in San Fransico, CA, specializes in the manufacturing of heavy equipment and have different financing options for clients to own or lease Continue Reading...
forecasting, there are a litany ethical dilemmas, decisions characteristics, problems, or frameworks that may impact the financial statements of Home Depot and Lowe's. The most egregious of which is management assumptions regarding future performanc Continue Reading...
Apple and Philips Balance Sheet Analysis
This text examines the balance sheets of both Apple and Philips in greater detail. Amongst other things, the paper will identify a number of differences between IFRS and U.S. GAAP as far as valuation approach Continue Reading...
Alleg Balance Sheet
Current assets:
Cash
$13,000
Market Securities
$17,000
Account receivable
$26,000
Inventories
$30,000
Total Current assets
$86,000
Plan and equipment:
Land and buildings
$57,000
Machinery
$125,000
$182,000
Less Continue Reading...
The balance sheet presents the three elements of financial position namely, assets, liabilities and equity. The balance sheet highlights the accounting equation which provides: Assets = Liabilities + Equity. In a balance sheet presentation, assets a Continue Reading...
Accounting Ethics
Ethics of Accounting
There have been breaches in the ethics of accounting in recent times. With that in mind, evaluate whether or not the current trend in the regulation of business establishments is favorable to ethical behavior. Continue Reading...
Accounting
Qualitative Characteristics of Financial Statements
There are four principal qualitative characteristics that make the information provided in financial statements useful to users. These are understandability, relevance, reliability and Continue Reading...
Accounting of Enron
In recent months the rules regarding special purpose entitles have come under great scrutiny. Special purpose entities allow firms to raise debt while at the same time making it almost impossible for investors to determine the ac Continue Reading...
However, the application of the 3% independent ownership has been restructured to make SPEs much clearer to delineate between parent company ownership and independent ownership.
Another major issue that arose out of the Enron scandal is the manipul Continue Reading...
Accounting Concepts and Practice
Income Statement and Balance Sheet
Smith Company
Income Statement
For the Year Ended 31st Dec 2012
Revenue
$406,000
Less cost of goods sold
$234,000
Gross profit
$172,000
Less: Expenses
Depreciation expens Continue Reading...
Accounting
From an investor's perspective, what is the most important information on the income statement? Why? From management's perspective, what is the most important information on the income statement? Why?
The income statement, also called th Continue Reading...
As required under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 144, Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets, WB must evaluate the carrying value of PC and T. against the fair value, as determined by the market capitalizatio Continue Reading...
In this case, it was a $4.9 billion bank account. However, credit would have been granted against an asset like that. Finding such an account did not exist, banks would have wanted their money back, and Parmalat would not have had it. This would be Continue Reading...
"Management believes that the accounting estimates employed are appropriate and the resulting balances are reasonable; however, due to the inherent uncertainties in making estimates actual results could differ from the original estimates, requiring Continue Reading...
, 2009). Similar adjustments are made for items, such as expenses, taxes etc. (Stickney et al., 2009).
The second section shows the cash inflows and outflows from investing. The figures shown are the changes that have occurred on the previous year. Continue Reading...
FASB and GASB Accounting
Compare and contrast FASB and GASB accounting. Explain the objectives of the two standards boards and how they are similar and different. Describe how the modified accrual basis of accounting differs from full accrual accou Continue Reading...
FASB Impacts
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) was established with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 1933 (SOX) to establish accounting standards for protection of investors and other users of financial statements. Standards implemented by FA Continue Reading...
Harmonization of Accounting and Disclosure Standards Around the World
An increasingly globalized world has naturally led to the current efforts to achieve harmonization of accounting and disclosure standards across the globe. The desirability of se Continue Reading...
New Rules for Lease Accounting: The Controversy
The Accounting Lease Controversy
The Advantages of the new system
Voices Against the New Lease Accounting Model
The Accounting Lease Controversy
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) Continue Reading...
conception that is laid behind write-down of inventory is that the amount value of the inventory being considered can still appear in the financial statements only if the inventory still has some worth or value. This particular amount value is attai Continue Reading...
IAS 17 Leases
Explain the key features of the current accounting standard. You should use at least one illustrative example for lessee accounting from a published set of financial statements to illustrate the effect of the standard
IAS 17 accountin Continue Reading...
accounting serves as a means of prioritizing business activities. In many instances, business has limited amounts of resources and a seemingly infinite amount of methods in which to deploy them. For large, multinational corporations the problem is c Continue Reading...
ethics in the business and accounting communities has been a topic of broad discussion. From the collapse of Enron to the mishaps of Andersen the country has seen the most tumultuous ethical behavior in the history of our nation. The purpose of this Continue Reading...
accounting questions while the rest centers on the characteristics of two certain companies, those being Apple and Philips.
Accounting Questions & Answers
The first accounting question is why revenue recognition is a significant issue. Recogni Continue Reading...
OlympusThe Olympus case highlights a number of behavioral, ethical and accounting issues. First, the ethics of the case are crystal clear. The two executives of Olympus went to extensive lengths to commit the fraud. It was carefully planned, with mu Continue Reading...
Countrywide Accounting Fraud
In the year 1969, David Loeb moved to NY from Virginia to begin a home loan and advance organization named as "United Mortgage Servicing." He was joined by his trusted aide Angelo Mozilo. Both shared common dreams of big Continue Reading...
Accounting
The Affordable Care Act (a.ka. Obamacare) has created some interesting implications for financial reporting. The issues revolve around the determination of benefits, particularly when companies opt to put their employees through Obamacare Continue Reading...
That was the year that significant changes were made in the Securities Act and the rules for bringing class action lawsuits were adjusted and modified. Because of those changes, it became more important from a litigation standpoint to ensure that co Continue Reading...