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GAAP Financial Reporting and Tax Accounting

As mentioned above GAAP stands for generally accepted accounting principles. GAAP principles are known mostly by financial advisor...

Student Supplied Case Study on Proposed Southern Comfort Corporation Acquisition by Brown Forman Distillers

is the net profit the total revenue after all costs have been deducted, sometimes before interest and tax divided but mostly afte...

Adaptec Financial Analysis

been a first mover when the opportunity has arisen, developing the pioneered SCSI (Small Computer System Interface), as well as dr...

eCommerce Issues

(Fixmer, 2002). Network security. By 2002, there had been few lawsuits in this area, but even then it was recognized as on...

Murphy Small Engine Repair Expansion Decisions

outgoing or incoming. Sales and expense records are crucial for reporting purposes, both internally and for regulatory agencies. ...

Cisco Financial Analysis

Cisco we get the following. Gross profit 2001 2002 2003 2004 Revenue 22,293 18,915 18,878 22,045 Cost of goods sold 11,221 6,902 ...

New Home Loan Program and Countrywide Financial

a potential customer may be evaluating how much mortgage s/he can afford. Available calculators target individuals seeking to con...

Overview of HealthSouth Company

the sale. This sale was on August 14; thirteen days later Scrushy announced that the company would restate earnings to reflect a ...

Performance Assessment of Toys 'R Us

elements. All figures are taken form the relevant Toys R Us annual accounts, and unless they are per hare figures ore specified ot...

Financial Analysis Validity

this does not mean that it is an accurate theory. To assess this we need to look at the theory. The basic idea is that it is not...

Accounting and Financials As They Involve Islamic Banking

For the most part, Islamic practices when it comes to money dont adapt themselves very well to more Anglo methods of accounting or...

The 9 Years War of 1688 to 1697 and Policies of Great Britain and Fance

PG), the Nine Years War was the result of significant - and many say unwanted - change. King William III and Queen Mary held cour...

Financial Analysis of Coca Cola

company has been performing well, but has also seen a slow down in growth in recent years. Looking at the revenue over the past fi...

1990s Global Financial Crises, Causes, and Reforms

of the 1990s came as a surprise to economists who thought that more globalization would have the effect of stabilizing internation...

Financial Bubble of the USA

fixed investment has been absent" (Puplava, 2003). Just as any bubble needs continued air to keep floating, the economy needs con...

Assessing the Next PLC Clothing Retailer

annual reports and company web sites. However secondary sources will also be used as reference points and to give insight to poten...

McDonalds and 2001 and 2002 Financial Performance

gaining a great advantage from their direct costs, but are then losing it with their other related costs, such as overheads. This ...

HP Investment

Meanwhile printing and Imaging remains HPs most profitable unit, representing about 35 percent of sales (Lower, 2003). Yet Dell is...

Ratio Analysis on the Financial Health of Rainbow Paint Company

danger zone. The debt-to-equity ratio is also decreasing nicely, meaning Sherwin-Williams is still in a good position to pay off d...

Latin America and Africa Needs of Finanicial System Reform

to achieve and maintain without effective financial system structures, yet without economic growth there is little reason for plac...

Consieration of Eastman Kodak

the level at which direct costs account take up revenue. The current gross profit margin is 39.4% (Morning Star, 2003), this compa...

Inflation and the Late Twentieth Century Economy of Israel

Triple-digit inflation and the fact that currency as a means of payment was stuffed in mattresses (instead of invested in financia...

Article Analysis: Financial and Accounting Topics from the Wall Street Journal

This 12-page paper analyzes financial and accounting articles from the Wall Street Journal. There are 5 sources listed in the bibl...

Economic Growth, Empowerment and Views of Both Black and White Cultures

past summer, the publication Black Enterprise (05-03) announced its 31st annual report listing the "top" African American enterpri...

Investing in Microsoft

creating software for the format, this is one innovation that was only introduced recently, and is likely to grow in popularity (M...

Growth and the Effects of the Financial Crisis in Asia

of 1997 was all the more surprising, especially given the fact that it impacted a group of countries that had, until that time, be...

Deceptive Reporting and Methodologies for Financial Accounting

is precisely what Enron did (Thomas, 2002). Because of this, Enron, before everything collapsed, boosted valuation estimates, with...

American and United Kingdom Banking and Financial Services Structures

individual or an organisation. Banks and building societies may act a intermediaries as may different types of Insurance brokers (...

Company Report on Formosa Plastics Group

industry. With this information any reader should then be able to assess the compnay for their own purposes with a good understand...

Positive Accounting Theory and Environmental Accounting

to supply a monitoring device to reduce the information between the principals (i.e. the investors) and the agents (i.e. the manag...