ACCT 331/531 – Financial Accounting II Spring 2016 Writing Assignment (Due on March 23, 2016 – beginning of class) Maximum Points: 14 Assignment Topic: Using your accounting and business knowledge, please discuss the following phrase in 3-4 double spaced pages (excluding the cover and reference pages). “The impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on corporate financial reporting”. Instructions: • This is an individual assignment. • Please do not quote from any references; use your own words and cite the references in a separate reference page. Also, avoid footnotes. • Please provide your name and section number/class time on the cover page. • You should use the following page setup for the assignment: o margins - one inch o font - times
I decided to do my research on Sony due to the advancement in technology and the competition between companies such as Microsoft, Apple, and Sony. I have been around long enough to know about Sony’s products but the real reason that attracted me to them for this essay is because I actually believe that they are having a negative trend. I am starting to see less Sony items in stores and I haven’t really heard much about them. Whereas companies such as Apple are constantly being talked about and you often see people walking around with some type of apple product in their hands. Today we are going to research Sony through a horizontal analysis and through different ratio analyses. Let’s see what we find!
Payton Approved, a new dog bakery opened in July 2014. To measure the businesses success the first six months are reviewed. The first topic will discover the steps of the accounting cycle with descriptions of each process. Next, one will learn and analyze a report of the importance of each step for the accounting process to measure success. The last analyzed step will discuss how the omission of one step can impact the success of the company.
Accounting is commonly described as the language of business. It is very important for all business owners to have very good understanding of their finances. Having the knowledge of your business finance, you will know where the money is going. Every business owner should have a good understanding of finance. To have a good understanding business owners needs to understand basic accounting steeps, how does accounting play a role in their business, how to define a financial statement and how the omission of any of these steps would affect the success of a business. Once you have an understanding of accounting/finance and the how it plays
Wells Fargo shows a much higher profitability ratio than Samsung, with over 8X that of Samsung. This is to be expected as services are typically more profitable than hardware sales which operate on leaner margins. Wells Fargo also outperforms Samsung significantly on return on sales with over 25X better performance. This again is attributable to better margins on services than hardware. Wells Fargo has a much stronger return on equity than Samsung with a Dupont ratio over 5X higher than Samsung's. Samsung has a stronger financial leverage ratio than Wells Fargo with almost 20% lower ratio for Samsung. Samsung also has a much lower total asset turnover than Wells Fargo. This is attributable to the quick turnover of assets in the manufacturing industry compared to the slow turnover of assets in the financial services sector.
The focus of EEC’s investment of the purchasing of the supplier is to cut down on
The purpose of accounting cycle report is to keep the best accounting records up to date. It also assist in producing the best possible financial statement that shows the true pictures of the business or organization and help making a good call whether business is profitable or not.
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ACC 201 (Principles of Financial Accounting) Complete Class All Discussion Questions , Chapters Problems and Assignments
3. What are each of the financial statements commonly called in for-profit health care organizations and in not for-profit care organizations?
Thank you for your response. As mentioned previously, I continued to monitor my account through the portal thoughout the previous session. I did not receive an invoice, and was not aware of one until you called. Also, I have access to the ledger, the information requested was the fees per class. You addressed that in the email, thank you. However, I am still not clear on the accounting. If the clas is $561.00 per credit hour, and this course is a 3 hour course, how did you arrive at $2,100.00? The invoice I need is for the class most recently
The company should probably use direct labor-hours as the activity base, since the fit of the regression line to the data is much tighter than it is with tons mined. The R2 for the regression using direct labor-hours as the activity base is twice as large as for the regression using tons mined as the activity base. However, managers should look more closely at the costs and try to determine why utilities costs are more closely tied to direct labor-hours than to the number of tons mined.
QuickBooks and Sage 50 Accounting are both great options for small business accounting. These programs help manage business finances which can drastically save time that may have been spent creating Excel spreadsheets and more. However, while both programs are sufficient for small businesses, the programs differ based on what they can offer your company.
1. Contribution margin for the present and proposed operations are presented in the table below:
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