The balance sheet and Income statement are the most important financial statements of the company that help conduct current analysis of company and evaluate its trends overtime. The balance sheet represents the company snapshots of its financial position on the last days of accounting period. Apple balance sheets, which represent a snapshot of its ending balances in asset, liability and equity account as of the date stated on the report, are changes each year from 2003 to 2014. On the other hand, the income statement shows its financial performance over 2003 to 2014. Apple basically ends its accounting period in September. Most of the long-term debts are in the form of the bonds. According to appleinsider.com, Apple recently issues a new euro bond worth about $2.26 billion with a maturity date on January 17, 2024 and coupon rate of 1.375% payable annually. The first payment will occur on January 17, 2016. Moody’s recently assigned a rating of Aa to Apple Inc. 's senior unsecured note issuance. Thus, Apple recent capital expenditure amount to 11,488 million according to morningstar.com. The analysis of financial statements is conduct to compare Apple with one of its closest rival Hewlett-Packard and twelve ratio were calculated. From table1 and chart1, the current ratio that determine the company ability to meet its short term obligation shows Apple’s current ratio is higher than that of Hewlett-Package from 2003 to 2014. That is, Apple is solvent than Hewlett Packard. Table
These are primary line items because of they are either great in amount or great in significance (Referred to as key performance indicators).
The assumptions formed in preparation for executing the pro forma balance sheets and income statements are important because they are being used to determine whether or not your endeavors are worthwhile. Identifying important trends within the assumptions will help to give you a better idea of the market value of your
On January 4, 2010, Harley, Inc. acquired 40% of the outstanding common stock of Bike Co. for $2,400,000. This investment gave Harley the ability to exercise significant influence over Bike. Bike's assets on that date were recorded at $10,500,000 with liabilities of $4,500,000. There were no other differences between book and fair values. During 2010, Bike reported net income of $500,000. For 2011, Bike reported net income of $800,000. Dividends of $300,000 were paid in each of these two years.
1. The percentage analysis of increases and decreases in individual items in comparative financial statements is called
The accounting system we use today started in Venice in renaissance period over 520 years ago. The trade business increased hugely during this time and all the financial recordings had to be written down to help people see how their business is doing. During that time in 1494 the first book about was published in accounting by Luca Paciolli and was called “The Collected Knowledge of Arithmetic, Geometry, Proportion and Proportionality”. He was called “The father of Accounting” and most of his described principles have been used up until this day.
The professional’s feet were facing forward. The position let her body being balanced. It would let her bump the ball perfectly in the air. If her feet were facing at a different direction like before, she might’ve lost her balance since she was standing now.
On JB Hunt’s balance sheet for 2011 lists current assets of $513,542,000 and current liabilities of $438,515,000, yielding a current ratio of 1.17, which indicates the company, has $1.17 of current assets for every $1 of current liabilities. The previous year 2010, the current ratio was 0.91. This shows a 29% increase in the current ratio over the previous year. An organization with a current ratio of 2 or higher is usually viewed by lenders to be a safe risk for short-term credit. Based on the 29% increase in current ratio, JB Hunt is in a better position to obtain
These assets are both cash and other things that could be changed into cash, and they might be used if necessary to pay their costs of operating. A non-profit organization uses the long-term solvency ratio to find out if they are likely to be able to pay their bills. This ratio will tell the non-profit exactly how much they depend on contributions from other sources outside of their organization. The organization uses the management/expense ratio to tell them how much they should set aside for administrative costs, besides their program costs. If they save too much money in this category, they can spend less money on their programs. The revenue/expense ratio tells them how much funding they have used to support their fund-raising. The revenue/expense ratio is like the management/expense ratio because if too much money goes into revenue/expense, not enough will go to their programs.
The main operating activities of the Nick Scali Limited were finding the supplying source and retailing household furniture and related appliances, accessories.
Hansson Private Label (Hansson or HPL). For Hansson, a private company, this would be a
Also “in terms of interpretation, the long-term solvency ratio should be at least 1.0 but as a general rule, the higher the ratio the better the organization is doing” (Martin, 2001). The ratio for
The directors have pleasure in submitting their report together with the audited financial statements of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2010.
1. A brief history of the two organisations, and their objectives, in as far as they
Wal-Mart is the American multinational retail corporation that is based on chain setup of different grocery stores, hyper stars, and the discount department. Wal-Mart Inc. headquarter is located in Bentonville, Arkansas. According to ?Fortune Global 500? 2016 list, Wal-Mart is the largest company with the perspective of the revenue. As of 2016, it has emerged as the highest private employer with with 2.2 million employees employed. In this year alone, Wal-Mart has grasped 62.3% total sales of the grocery retailer market. This generates US$ 478.614 billion in the US (Rankings, 2015). The President and CEO is Doug McMillan and Greg Penner is the chair person of Wal-Mart stores.
Corporations are often the victims of the most common white-collar crimes that occur in corporate America. According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (cfenet.com), “abuse and fraud by employees cost U.S. organizations more than $400 billion annually…[which equals] $9 per employee per day.”