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The author of the paper states that in order to achieve the objectives of financial reporting in accordance with framework prescribed by IASB for financial statements, the information contained in the financial statements should not only be useful but also faithful representations of events and transactions covered in the financial statements.
Dubai Islamic Bank plans to open up 10 new branches in 2009. It has offshore branches in Pakistan and the bank underwent a major rebranding exercise in 2006 where it adopted its new, easy to spot, green and yellow logo. The bank has therefore stayed with the mass as far as its IT spending is concerned, which is very competitive.
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This assignment will begin with the statement that in assessing capital budgeting decisions, net present value, internal rate of return and payback period are the usual techniques that are used to come up with a decision. Cash flows are vital to all these analyze, but discounted cash flows are more important for the two methods such as the net present value and the internal rate of return.
The leverage ratios mainly include the debt ratio and the time's interest earned ratio. Company’s that are highly levered are at a greater risk of incurring losses in case the return on investment is lower than the borrowing cost. Thus it is very important for a company to restrict its amount of debt so that it does not go beyond a certain percentage.
Audits are characterised by at least one of the following; high risk; high volume; cause for concern; and high cost. The risk of cross-infection has made it imperative to sterilise instruments to a high standard in general practice or dental environment. Any surgical instrument used on one patient is a potential source of infection to another patient or the handler, and this risk could be minimised by cleaning and sterilising as soon as possible.
Horizontal analysis of income statement reflects that Qantas Airlines Ltd. has shown an encouraging performance with 2006 as base year of measurement. Profitability has shown increasing points due to increased revenue and controlled expenditure resulted from efficient management performance.
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The four products are manufactured under the same conditions and are produced in 20 units and sold in 15 units per batch in a standard carton. This Company currently follows the machine hour rate (hr) and the company has provided the following figures for overheads pertaining to the production of batteries.
A, overhead absorption rates are not given, it has been assumed that the overhead rates are the same as wage rates. Adding these three heads, the total cost is calculated taking charge as 75% we derive at the expected (or proposed) profit of 25%.
In the beginning, several plans were exercised to resolve the crisis. Still, eventually, former president George W. Bush and the Secretary of the Treasury were forced to declare a $700 billion aid package to confine the breakage caused by banking systems' failures.
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Portfolio investment is a way to maximize the wealth of investors. In this method, different options are selected for investment based upon the embedded risk, performance or expectations regarding that particular investment option. In an investment portfolio, each investment is given an individual allocation of the total corpus of investment.
The amount remaining in the current account after set up will be £ 500,000 which will be sufficient to run the business for 10 months without any revenue. Assuming that the business set up by Kevin starts to generate revenue from the 5th month onwards; the remaining £ 250,000 can be maintained in the current account as a contingency.
The risk associated with such an investment is that of obsolescence. This may occur where such assets are no longer needed despite their being in good working order. This is due to the fact that new assets are frequently invented in IT and which come with more superior aspects and thus technical obsolescence in the virgin case is highly possible.
This paper had portrayed the meaning of externalities and its impacts over capital markets of developing countries. This paper had highlighted the urgent need for the adoption of externalities controlling techniques via developing countries to evade the situation of exhausted resources in array to sustain the growth rate of development.
When consolidated financial statements are to be prepared, either the parent or a subsidiary may have reasons for preparing separate financial statements. It is worth mentioning that ED 10 expresses that reasons for exerting power to control the activities need not be through control of majority voting rights.
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A bookkeeper keeps tracks of all the company’s transactions and keeps the ledgers of the company balanced. Other aspects include auditing by external firms, which ensures that accounting fraud is prevented by examining the ledgers of a company with other records to ensure that the ledgers provide a true and fair view of the company’s financial dealings.
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London’s Congestion Pricing Program is founded on the hypothesis that charging a congestion fee on the vehicles entering the designated zone will help resolve the problem of congestion. The fact that accessing central London bore no expense before implementation of the program, it was assumed, meant that a lot of people drove to that area.
Study elaborates adequately about the recent action of Australian Government regarding giving the guarantee to the deposits, its advantages and some disadvantages. Since the time of Adam Smith, market economies have evolved enormously. Advance capitalist economies, such as the United States, Western Europe and Japan have three distinguishing features: Trade and specialization, money and capital.
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The person who purchases the life insurance pays certain amounts of money regularly. These payments are known as premiums. The payment of premiums continues up to the expiry of the policy or when the payment of the policy is stopped by the insured person due to his/her death or due to inability to continue paying for the policy.
Management accounting and financial control is a vital function in every organisation as industries become more and more sophisticated and competition becomes more intense. Thus, learning management accounting and financial control is key for every organisation in order to come up with vital information that will aid it to come up with better decisions.
It is important that the data contained in the report are valid, realistic and reliable. Thus, in GM’s case, the data should be reliable because the readers (i.e., analysts, government regulatory bodies, and other concerned groups) depend on these data to show the level of performance of the company in terms of social responsibility.
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The current world financial crisis precipitated by credit crunch squeeze in the rich developed countries has strained trade relations among countries that have been forced to retreat domestically offering protection to their local companies in efforts to stem economic catastrophe.
The capital gearing of a company can be assessed from its debt ratio. Higher debt ratio indicates high gearing capital structure and vice versa. In the case of John Lewis, the debt ratio calculated in the annexure shows 55.83% in 2008 and 57.36% in 2009. As the debt ratio in both years is more than 50%, it suggests a high geared capital structure of the company.
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Commercial banks might impose restrictions on lending to both business and individuals thus leading to a credit crunch or squeeze. Max Weber’s explanations
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The forecasting approaches mentioned could still be utilized in light of their use in any organization. Either quantitative or qualitative approaches to forecasting can be used. In fact, in some organizations, a combination of the two approaches is utilized to confirm and validate projected results.
S/he wants to be very clear on their needs and goals. As s/he is a 22 years old graduate and after getting employment this very month, s/he thinks it is the perfect scheme of things to match their expenditure with the income. Currently, s/he is single but would be married very soon. Their parents-in-law would be staying with them in the near foreseeable future.
This report discusses the financial performance of Ford through conducting ratio analysis of 2008 financial statements. A comparison is made with competitors, including BMW and General Motors (GM) to determine whether the company is performing better or worse than the general automobile industry and competitors.
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The positive and negative aspects of such initiatives have to be taken into consideration by countries globally when having to enter an organization of this kind. The political effects of the relevant decision are also critical. In accordance with Bearce (2002, 194) ‘under capital mobility, governments face a political choice'.
In summary, fair value measurement has greatly evolved from the time it was first introduced to the present time. This evolution has been spearheaded by IASB in its desire to ensure that entities will present a more realistic financial report. This evolution, however, has not prevented critics to voice out their concerns on fair value measurement.
The bailout of AIG made news because it was the highest recipient of the Federal funds that were made available under the TARP or the Troubled Assets Relief Plan that was passed by the Federal government. The point of contention in bailing out AIG was that it was too big to fail and hence needed all the support that the Federal Government could extend.
As regards the international tax problems created by electronic commerce, OECD also has its views on trading through e-commerce. Due to electronic commerce, a person can carry on business with any country or in any country without being a resident of that country. OECD has stressed on effective management in this context.
Generally, when the financial ratios of the year 2008 are compared with those of projected financial statements the analysis tends to present similar outcomes. The comparison shows similarities in the results of the current ratio and quick ratio which are not expected to improve in the current year as well.
All the sales had been on credit to the customers and the time given to settle the accounts is 2 months. Hence, exactly 10 months' worth of annual sales has been settled in the year.
From the Actual Profit and Loss Statement, the total sale for the year is obtained as £ 23,000,000. Assuming that the sales every month were consistent throughout the year.
Property investment in the UK financial markets has changed considerably since then and this paper examines both corporate strategic dimensions and organizational structural changes along with their impact on property-related and non-property-related investment vehicles in the UK since January 2007.
Whenever we are going to judge the ability of the government of any country we have to judge it through many aspects and perspectives. Among their economic perspective is the most significant one having mammoth importance. The fact is that the government of the country is responsible for driving out the tempo of economic development.
Actually, the basic conditions, rights, and obligations of exchanging payments within Europe, between two countries or within a country, will remain the same, irrespective of the location of such transactions taking place. This has a definite impact on all the payment transaction chain within the EU states.
Public finance also takes a close look at the main motivation behind the provision of public goods. It also investigates the rules that guide public sector decision making and the main differences between public and private goods. Public finance also deals with the policies that the government puts in place to regulate the economy.
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This paper aims to look at various items that concern the company's accounting policies for its operations. These items include the company's equity, debt financing, tax accounting practices, and property, plant and equipment, the practices of Santos Limited as regards recording and accounting for its operations are delved upon.
For all the theories formulated and models structured to attempt to explain the movement of market prices, there is no consistently accurate formula for it. Similarly, no rational observation would constantly apply to the way investors behave in the course of the daily activities in the financial markets.
The theory initially developed by Harry Markowitz (1959) proposed that investors expect to be compensated in terms of return for the risk they bear when investing. The pith of the argument of the MPT and its extended variant, the Capital Asset Pricing Model was that a set of portfolios with maximum returns for given risks minimum risk for given returns.
Many critics have attributed to FAS 157 the weakening of financial firms. These institutions were required by the new regulations to raise capital in order to offset financial losses at the first sign of asset value declines – the Agence France-Presse called it a “death spiral” – in the event of tightening liquidity due to scarcity of cash.
Financial institutions worldwide have been affected by the adverse market environment created by the US subprime fiasco. Trouble began when the financial companies started relying too much on the innovation in the blind faith that it will yield returns. The banking industry has suffered the most due to the current meltdown.
During the latest year, Ruth Corp. had sales of $300,000 and a net income of $20,000, and its year-end assets were $200,000. The firm's total debt to total assets ratio was 40%. Based on the Du Pont equation, what was the firm's ROE? (Points: 4) The proper variant is 16.67%.
The analysis of the financial reports of QPR Pty Ltd. has revealed fraudulent manipulations on the payroll data stored electronically by the Pay Roll Department. The existing audit system adopted by the company is obviously neither efficient nor well functioning in identifying the corruptive action on the part of the departmental staff.
Tesco, being the market leader in the UK retail industry, has increasing financial performance and is contributing to society as well. But there are also criticisms arising against Tesco’s monopolistic effect on the economy. Its income growth, EPS, market growth, and the number of stores have seen an increasing trend over the years.
The Bank of England has cut down the interest rate at 0.50%. (Metro, 2009) Basically, cutting down interest rates can help the local banks and other financial institutions to reduce the number of its respective non-performing loans. For instance: With the low-interest rate, banks can start making new deals with the borrowers concerning the number of years of payment.
The Vasicek’s model lacked the practical application because of the fact that it assumed that the interest rates go negative and as such the asset values can touch infinity. This weakness was though overcome by the CIR which extended the theoretical assumptions of the Vasicek’s model to further broaden the applicability of the model.
The current ratio of 2:1 and a quick ratio of 1:1 is considered optimum for any industry. The liquidity position of Cables and Wires Plc was very delicate in 2007 with its current ratio at 0.67:1 and a quick ratio at 0.66:1. This situation worsened in 2008 when its current ratio came down to 0.45:1 and 0.44:1 respectively.
Capital markets don’t include short term money markets where money is lent and borrowed in the short run through the interaction of the banks, financial houses, and individual money lenders. Functional efficiency of the capital market is determined by a number of factors including the government’s regulatory mechanisms.
Kim should be very much confident about this estimate as the shape of the distribution of daily sales revenue from telemarketing operations is approximately normal. The sample ‘Daily Income of Telemarketing for 150 Days’ is very large and normally distributed, therefore there is no need for more data.
Blacks Leisure Group, Plc is a clothing wholesaler and retailer based in the UK. This report aims to probe the company financial health by looking at its financial statement and conducting ratio analysis in order to see the underlying relationships of the financial statement items. The changes in the balance sheet show the company's contraction.