MGAC01 – Case Assignment # 1 Manan Patel 1000759752 LEC 01 Yiheng Fu 1000366098 LEC 01 Date: December, 31st 2009 To: CFO of SPI From: Manan Patel and Fu Yiheng, Accounting Manager Subject: Revenue Recognition of 2009 Role: I am an accounting manager for SPI and responsible for recognizing the revenue for the four contracts undertaken during 20X9. While reconsidering the revenue recognition, I am also to identify the impact on its SFP and SCI while trying maximize to obtainable amount of loan. Users and Objectives: 1. CFO of SPI – To ensure that the four revenue contracts are accurately reported and reflects the true economic financial position of the company to track performance. Moreover, the recognition should identify the impact on SFP and SCI to track the amount of financing available. The CFO is also concerned with the EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) to finance growth. 2. Bank wants the information to assess the company’s ability to pay back the financial loan. They want the file interim statements to report fair and accurate financial statement accordance with the appropriate standards to allow them to set the accurate amount of loan. 3. Other users can include suppliers, customers and future investors that want stewardship reporting to calculate performance measurement and evaluation of the company’s current position. Constraints: 1. Being a public company for the last three years, SPI must adopt IFRS
Financial statement measures the financial performance, liquidity and strength of the firm, it is important
You have been named the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of a two year old company, CUNY Analytics. Financials have been prepared by a bookkeeper. As CFO, you responsible for the preparation of accurate financials, analysis and review of the financials before they are released and communication of the results of your company to banks, investors, creditors and the government, as necessary.
The information found in financial statements outlines the financial activities of that company, and can help managers, creditors, and investors make many important decisions.
It is important to notice that Special Purpose Entities should be carefully reviewed by each member of the auditing team. Even more after it was proven that most of Enron’s fraudulent accounting practices involved SPE. SPE allows companies to reduce their
Understanding the finances of a company is important but knowing the significance of the financial statements is crucial to the operations as well. Reviewing the statement of financial position, operating statement and statement of cash flows serve as a guidance to management and executives on the day-to-day activities of an organization (Finkler et al., 2013). For example, the statement of financial position (balance sheet) shows the assets and
CFO also handles important financial relationships, such as those with investment bankers and credit rating agencies.
The CFO or chief financial officer oversees three directors: a human resource director, senior director or controller, director of accounting, and all receptions. He or she is basically over day to day operations on the business side of the business; handling finical problems paying bills and overseeing the employees of the company. Another depart that helps and is on the same operational side of the franchise is the Operations and Information department. Which is ran by a vice president, that oversees; technology, operations, risk management, and has a staff accountant.
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Through indicating the profit margin, return on assets and return on equity to measure sales, assets and other factors, shareholders also can know the global profit performance of the firm and indicate that how the condition of company is.
Information given by an entity 's financial performance grant users of the financial statements to assess:-
The users of the general purpose financial statements of the SMEs are interested in some specific disclosures (Deegan 2014). For example, these disclosures are solvency, liquidity, measurement uncertainties, choices of accounting policy, encountered transactions, short-term cash flows, liabilities recognition, obligations and contingencies (Australian Accounting Standard Board 2010). Following the requirements of IFRS for SMEs, users can interpret the information which they need with less unrelated disclosures. The designation of IFRS for SMEs bring transparency by allowing users to improve economic decisions due to the quality of financial information.
A company prepares financial statement to provide information about its financial position and performance. This information is in turn used by a wide range of stakeholders (such as investors, banks, customers, suppliers etc) in making economic decisions with respect to respective economic interest in the company. Typically, in terms of ownership by investment in shares of the company, shareholders though own the company but do not manage it. Therefore, the shareholder and other such stakeholders to get comfort in taking sound decision need independent assurance from the auditors that the financial statements reflect true and fair view of the company affairs in all material respects. Hence, in order to enhance the level of
The financial statements are very useful to all this group of user. Explain each of them;
The Purpose of Financial Statements The financial statements of a business are used to provide information about the status of the business, set performance targets and impose restrictions on the managers of the firm as well as provide an easier method for financial planning. The financial statements consist of the Profit and Loss Account, Balance Sheet and the Cash Flow Statement. There are four areas of information, which we can collect from a company's financial statements. They are: Ÿ
1. To be able to provide data to meet the immediate needs of its clients.