Financial Statements and Case

And relevant to (b) guaranteed payments were, in substance, loan principal repayments, Fox told the company’s outside consultants and external auditor that they were “prepaid production payments.” The consultants and auditor relied on Fox’s false characterization in recognizing the payments as an offset against the company’s oil-and-gas production revenues. As a result, Powder River recorded the working interest conveyance proceeds as revenue in the company’s annual and quarterly filings from year-end 2004 March 2008, and improperly recorded the minimum guaranteed payments as an asset – prepaid production payments – in the company’s quarterly filings for the first, second and third quarters.

In this example we have a case in which years 89, 90 and 91 net income is less than net cash provided by operating activities. One of the major reasons for this appears to have been depreciating high cost of equipment. The depreciation is trending downward over the three-year period indicating less long-term assets are being purchased/capitalized to run operations. While depreciation does not involve cash, it does impact net income. In addition, account payables have been decreasing over the last two years and significant cash has been used in the last year to pay the liability. In 1990 there are significant costs associated with restructuring activities. There

Garcia Corporation purchased a truck by issuing an $90,400, 4-year, zero-interest-bearing note to Equinox Inc. The market rate of interest for obligations of this nature is 10%. Prepare the journal entry to record the purchase of this truck. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 15,510. List multiple debit/credit entries from largest to smallest amount, e.g. 10, 5, 2. Hint: Use tables in text.)

Read ATC 7-5 in Chapter 7. This situation is very similar to what a company called Enron did several years ago. Use the internet or the university library to research exactly what Enron did in their accounting procedures and what eventually happened to the company. Post your findings and understanding of Enron’s story and respond to two other students’ postings with enhancements or additions to the Enron situation.

On September 12, 1979, Hampton Machine Tool Company requested from St. Louis National Bank a renewal to their loan of $1,000,000 due to be repaid on September 30, 1979 and also to be given an additional loan of $350,000 for new equipment purchases in October 1979. Both loans were to be repaid on December 31, 1979. Hampton M.T. Company wrote a letter to the St. Louis National Bank stating the reasons for the extension of the loan and the need of the additional loan, and giving the current and the predicted future financial position of the company. In order to decide whether to approve the loan extension and the additional new loan, the bank examine the financial position of the

NOTE: In addition to the in-chapter and end-of-chapter exercises which serve as short cases you will find the following short cases arranged by course title that can also be utilized as short cases that require the student to access the authoritative literature to address the issue presented in the case. Other excellent sources of longer and more detailed cases include the Deloitte Trueblood cases (www.deloitte.com/more/DTF/cases_subj.htm), as well as the AICPA cases (www.aicpa.org).

10.  There was no re-disclosure of the new payment nor any explanation of how it would affect the loan that we agreed to, which means that we were not given full disclosure and is just one more reason why we have a right to an extended rescission.

This Income Statement also known as the Earnings Statements or statement of operation, is one of the four Financial Statement used by accountants, business owner’s, and investors. The Income Statement provides a detailed look into how profitable a business has been over a designated period of time.

1. The official overhead allocation rate used in the 1987 model year strategy study at the Automotive Component and Fabrication Plant (ACF) was 435% of direct

1. This action would affect the year-end income statement by showing an extra $10,000 increase in revenue. It would affect the year-end balance sheet by altering the numbers shown. The amount that is actually owed to the creditors would reflect lower that it really is while the business’ equity and revenue would reflect higher than it truly is.

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.

Value investors use a variety of analytical techniques in order to estimate the intrinsic value of securities in hopes of finding investments where the true value of the investment exceeds its current market value.

Financial statements have several key components and specific criteria into them to relay the detailed information for auditors and management. A deeper look into financial statements and the many concepts surrounding them are needed to explain in more detail. It’s also important to recognize the Auditor’s opinion letter, balance sheet, operating statement, statement of changes in net assets, and statement of cash flows and footnotes of their involvement in the process. Relevant accounting articles are a useful supplement to financial statements and how they enhance concepts in the financial statement. The meaningful uses of financial statements for health care organizations are the epitome of current and future success of financial health.

with a new partner, Harry Fowl. Harry has had some existing business and you are

Financial Statements basically show the historical performance or record of the company at some previous point of time. By the time when financial statements are made public, changes are many economical areas such as market conditions, currency exchange rate and inflations can change the values of assets and liabilities. In this case there often exist discrepancies between book value of assets and their market values.