Financial Accounting Reporting

In order to encourage people to buy more houses and boost the real estate market, the homebuilders, financial lenders, and the government created new financial instruments of calculation that were not researched properly. Lenders sold mortgages to investors that allowed the risk of default to be covered even though the mortgage was in a financial stretch for the borrower. Borrowers did not read the fine print and made decisions that they could not afford. The major banks Federal and otherwise, kept the interest rates low causing investors to take risks to get high returns in the short term, disregarding the long terms security of the whole process.

cognizant of the fact that the choices he makes can affect the price a buyer pays

The Dodd-Frank Regulatory Reform Act is one of the most influential regulations in response to the financial crisis. This acts primary focus is to prevent future financial system collapses, by reducing excessive risk taking by financial institutions and by protecting the consumers (Rose & Hudgins, 2013). In addition, the Dodd- Frank Act gives the Federal Reserve the authority to monitor financial institutions and gives them the power to restructure or liquidate firms that are financially inadequate (Investopedia, 2010). Fortunately, since the 2008 financial crisis a number of new regulations have been enacted, the Dodd-Frank Act is the most monumental new regulation, because it seeks to prevent future bank bailouts and the risky behaviors of financial institutions. While these regulations may not be enough to fully prevent another financial crisis, the necessary steps have been taken to minimize the disastrous effects of overt risk taking by financial

This action further plunged the economy distorting generally vigorous financial institutions into untenable position. The role of poor housing policies in disgruntling the economy was by altering interest rates and asset prices (White, 2009). The outcome of changes in interest rates were wrong investments and diverted funds that can’t be lend out to individuals.

1. The percentage analysis of increases and decreases in individual items in comparative financial statements is called

The Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.20 per share on the company’s common stock. This increase in dividend was payable to shareholders of record on closed of business on May 11, 2016. In the first quarter of this year, the company brought back 1.0 million shares of its common stock at a cost of $50.0 million, with the expectation that it will return its free cash flow to shareholders in this year in the form of dividends and share of repurchases. The Cheesecake Factory knows the importance of success, therefore they schedule conference calls and webcast live on the company’s website throughout May 26, 2016. This ensure stakeholders that the company was not in the red, and continue to profit.

The U.S. subprime mortgage crisis was a nationwide catastrophe that resulted in the increase of the default and foreclosure of home loans, and consequent decrease in the value of mortgage-backed securities. The mortgage crash was a result of non-bank originators being insufficiently regulated and engaging in excessive risk-taking behavior and questionable lending practices. However, the leading causes for the subprime mortgage extend further than flawed lending decisions. The subprime mortgage crisis would not have occurred had it not been for a series of fundamentally flawed government policies (Allen, 2015).

In this paper we will discuss Walmart’s Balance sheet and Income Statement. We will analyze the company’s total assets at the end of the most recent annual reporting year and to why it is important. We then will talk about the company’s total assets, how much cash and cash equivalents did the company have, as well as, the amount of accounts payable at the most recent year, and from the previous year. What the company’s net revenues are from the last three annual reporting periods, the change in dollars in the company’s net income from the most recent annual reporting period to the previous annual reporting period. We will

Part II.  Refer to the latest annual financial statements for the two following companies: Apple:

Mortgage-backed securities and subprime mortgage crisis were generally thought to be the cause of the 2008 financial crisis. This paper will be discussing the cause of the financial crisis and the relationship between mortgage-backed securities and the crisis. The paper will further describe the actions taken by the government to recover the securities.

The year 2008 was a chaotic time in the United States. The investments from companies in collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), which were supported by subprime mortgages caught up with those same companies (Poole, 2010, p. 424). Three companies who invested in these CMOs made headlines: Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and American International Group (AIG). This paper will explore what the causes of the financial crisis were, a specific law case involving Lehman Brothers, the Federal Reserve (the Fed) and Congress’s responses, and solutions to prevent an event like this from happening again.

There have been many different theories that claim to provide reasons as to what caused the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008. Whether it was the effects of the dot.com bust or unforeseen aftermath of the terrorist attack on September 11th, decisions made by congress, or money-hungry bankers and investors or homebuyers themselves, this crisis veered the country into a financial catastrophe, claiming to be second to that of the great depression. This paper will give an overview of the subprime mortgage crisis, discuss perceived causes, persons involved, persons affected and the outcome it had on business practices and the country as a whole.

Over the past couple years, the United States government has learned from its mistakes and loopholes within the mortgage market. Changes within the Fiscal or regulation of government taxes imposed on citizens, and use of quantitative easing, a macro policy, of buying and selling bonds in open market to inject money in the economy has helped jump start the economy. The cost of the economies revival was at the expense of banks giving out mortgage loans to individuals with poor credit. With the help of deregulation and historical trends of the housing prices, financial analysts felt no harm in giving loans to individuals as long as house prices were rising, the default risk would be zero. Soon the mortgages went underwater,

The United States economy is currently experiencing the worst crisis since the Great Depression back in the decade that was preceding World War II. The crisis started off from the home mortgage market, especially the market for so-called “subprime” mortgages, and has already spread beyond subprime to prime mortgages, commercial real estate, corporate junk bonds, and other forms of debt. This paper critically illustrates the factors that account for the crisis, who was affected by this crisis, and how it was spread to the rest of the world.

Management is a user of financial analysis. Which of the following comments does not represent a fair statement as to the management perspective?