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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Balance Sheet a) Using the 2012 Annual Report, which reflects the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012, Facebook lists short-term liabilities on its balance sheet of $1.052 billion, split between several categories. The largest of these is the accrue Continue Reading...
Long-Term Capital Management The Failure of Long-Term Capital Management The Long-Term Capital Management is a popular term relating to hedge funds that experienced massive failure. The fund was initially a success from the time it was launched acc Continue Reading...
Financing Community Business The Importance of Small Business in the Economy Canadian Federal Support for SMEs Tackling SME Tax and Fiscal Priorities Rebalancing Canada's EI System Assist Small Business Owners with Succession Plans Growing Smal Continue Reading...
Enron could engage in their derivative trading strategy with no fear of government intervention because derivative trading was specifically exempted from government regulation. Due in part to a ruling by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission' Continue Reading...
LEASING vs. PURCHASING COMPUTER EQUIPMENT? Leasing and Purchasing Computer Equipment Scope Considerations for Lease Option 7-9 Advantages of Financial Leasing 9-12 GE Transportation plans to replace their computer equipment for the Human Resour Continue Reading...
Enron was a Texas based, low profile, gas pipeline Company that progressed from delivering energy to brokering energy futures. Exploiting de-regulation, it pioneered an innovative mark- to- market pricing strategy and started selling electricity in 1 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...
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...
Novation -- Art Gallery Art Gallery There is no reason why Jane should not allow the artists she has found to show their artwork and for her to start making commissions off the sale of the work immediately. The law holds that any business done befo Continue Reading...
Ethics and Specialized Knowledge Enron's case summary Enron is an interstate pipeline company that was founded in 1985 as a supplier of power utilities. In the 20th century, Enron had grown quickly, and due to increased competition in the global ma 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...
82), and through charities, which has been mentioned in this paper in previous pages. By the middle of the 1990s, the CIA estimated that "...fifty Islamic charities 'support terrorist groups, or employ individuals who are suspected of having terror Continue Reading...
lease a financing vehicle? How leases accounted firm's financial reports? What difference a capital lease Leasing Alternatives Essentially, leases are alternative means of gaining access to products or goods that could otherwise be purchased outri Continue Reading...
Credit Risk Management Banks are an important part of the economy of any nation. Traditionally, the banks operate as financial intermediaries serving to satisfy the demand of people in need of various forms of financing. Through this, banks enable p Continue Reading...
Sarbanes-Oxley. The political pressure of the past several years following the dot.com bubble and the collapse of several major companies created a need for new securities legislation, which culminated last year in the Sarbanes-Oxley Investor Protec Continue Reading...
.." The Federal Reserve continues to keep a watch on both "current and potential exposures..." And are in the process of a review of the collateral valuation methods of the banking industry." (Kohn, 2008) Kohn states that disruptions in liquidity in 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...
ENRON The objective of this study is to answer the questions of: (1) In what ways did the failures by the auditors and other gatekeepers contribute to the failures of Parmalat and Enron? (2) In what manner could it be ascribed to the corporate vultu Continue Reading...
Capital Requirement and Risk Behavior Arab African International Bank Midan ElSaray El Koubra, Garden City Caoro The research will mainly dwell on the capital requirements and risk behavior of banks, more in particular the credit risk. The purpose Continue Reading...
Undoubtedly, France, much like Greece will need a bailout if it escalates to that point. The ECB has also elected to provide unlimited 3-year loans to risky nations. This in essense, takes liquidity risk off the table in regards to investor concern Continue Reading...
They weighed the greed of the few against the good of the many and decided in selfish favor. Without protection from this sort of corporate greed, American investors would be less inclined to invest at all. One can see the effects of just the one i Continue Reading...
For example, Shu-Acquaye (2007) cites the basic differences in the legal systems in various parts of the world as contributing to the different approaches to corporate governance. Likewise, Shu-Acquaye cites these differences and adds, "The American 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...
In contrast with the mutual funds, 'Mutual funds trade hundreds of stocks in many unrelated industries, with very little of the total portfolio in any single stock. By contrast, when a company expands into a new area, its portfolio consists of two s Continue Reading...
The growth of Internet has led to a desire to understand the characteristics of the users, their reasons for using the service and what the users do when connected. A huge and expanding 'Internet watching' industry has progressed to provide such dat Continue Reading...
Second and third supporting opinions center on the improvement of the financial system. The current Administration will be able to develop better systems to manage risk across the financial system. In this will be the development of better ways to Continue Reading...
Even worse, the entire process of due diligence with respect to qualifying potential mortgagees carefully to avoid bad risks and of appraising property as accurately as possible dissolved by virtue of the immediate and routine transfer of mortgage Continue Reading...
The data must be absolutely correct. 3. Effects of Price Level Changes: Price levels changes often make the comparison of figures difficult over a period of time. Changes in price affect the cost of production, sales and also the value of the asset Continue Reading...
Superior Living How can using more debt impact a firm's capital structure? The capital structure is comprised of debt and equity so inherently, any change to either will change the firm's capital structure. What is being proposed is that in advance Continue Reading...
Long-Term Financial Planning FedEx Corporation FedEx Corporation was established in 1971 and the company has four distinct business segments that include FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Office and FedEx Freight. Over the years, the company has o Continue Reading...
Total Ops. 8,485,608 7,061,704 3,638,889 3,445,640 * = Data not available (Forbes, Toyota income statement, 2013). Examining the income statements, Toyota's income fell from the previous three quarters, and the fall was somewhat substantial. Continue Reading...
Caterpillar The world of investing is full of choices. Selecting those areas which can provide above average returns requires focusing on corporations with: strong management, balance sheets and business models. These elements allow firms to increas Continue Reading...
