5- Relevancy of Information To be useful, financial information must be relevant and give a true picture of what it purports to represent. The usefulness of financial information is enhanced when it is comparable, verifiable, understandable and quickly disseminated. The ED does not properly address the informational needs of resource provider for NFP entities. PWC (2014) mentioned in its comment letter to the ED that the proposed draft does not “describe the additional principles or concepts that may be important to NFP contributors.” Consequently, the information presented may be too broad and not relevant to users. Scot Phillips (2014), for he Technical Issues Committee (TIC) of the AICPA underlines that paragraph D10 of the ED in not clear. Even though the ED acknowledges that not all disclosures would be beneficial the same way to contributors and investors, lenders and other creditors; it provides no clear explanation as what to expect as disclosure requirement from the Board if ever an information is appropriate to one group over another. Each actor manifest different information needs, the proposed ED is unclear and will create excessive problem in the future among the different participants. Relevancy of information implicitly means no confusion for the user. If no consistency exists about the way of applying a measurement for any line item the overall information presented would be chaotic and therefore useless. As TIC noted, Question L15 asks for an
Beattie, A. (2017, May 4). FYI on ROI: A Guide to Calculating Return on Investment. Retrieved from Investopedia: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/basics/10/guide-to-calculating-roi.asp
Horizontal analysis allows side by side comparisons on a year to year basis to determine the performance from one year to the next. The company decides on standards to compare the results of the analysis. Standards are researched by checking competitors, internet research of general industry guidelines or standards created from past experience in the company.
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Commutronics had not accumulated enough profits and had no sufficient capital reserves. The company’s registered capital was therefore very low. The withholding tax rate of
In addition to delivering health care of the highest quality, another main goal of a health care organization is to remain profitable and viable through effective financial management. In an effort to do so, members of administration along with the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) work diligently in attempting to maintain and sustain a successful health care organization by monitoring the flow of cash (in and out) in accordance to GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), while ensuring the needs and wants of the consumers are met. With this being the case, health care accounting skills are equally important in
The Board decided to require an entity to disclose the terms of any rights or privileges granted by a governmental entity directly to the reporting entity that have reduced, or may reduce, the entity’s income tax burden. The Board also made the decision to revise the carryforward disclosure requirement in Topic 740 for a public business entity. A public business entity would be required to disclose:
CLASSIFICATION AND UNDERSTANDABILITY- FINANCIAL INFORMATION IS APPROPRIATELY PRESENTED AND DESCRIBED AND DISCLOSURES ARE CLEARLY EXPRESSED .
Since 1975, Patton Fuller Community Hospital (PFCH) has been serving the people of the Kelsey and the surrounding communities. PFCH is a for-profit organization and is owned by physician active within the facility. Owned by the physicians active at the hospital, the organization is governed by a 14 member board of directors, which consist of 12 physician-owners, with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) as non-voting members. The facility is dedicated to providing cutting-edge medical services. PFCH
The simulation states, “Many hospitals in the United States are financially vulnerable because of the reduction in Medicaid cuts, funding cuts, and cuts in Medicare payments” (University of Phoenix, 2009). This simulation paper will show what some hospitals have to do to keep costs down. In addition, it will analyze financial indicators for decision making. This simulation will also show the financial accounting from a Cardiac Care Hospital’s Perspective. It will show how to bridge a working capital shortage, evaluate funding options for acquiring medical equipment, and evaluate funding options for capital expansion.
However, this Statement maintains the scope of Interpretation 46(R) with the previous additional entities treated as special qualifying entities for purposes. The concept of these entities was eliminated in Statement No. 166. Therefore, the statement No. 167 also superseded the risks of quantitative-based and calculation of rewards to determine which enterprise, if any, provided a financial interest that controls an entity variable interest because the expectation of an access of the basic qualitative will be more efficient to identify which company has a financial interest of controlling in an entity variable interest. However, this is the way the FASB admitted to upgrade the financial reporting standards. Other additional necessity is an additional review event when deciding whether a company is a variable entity interest when there are any occurring circumstances and changes in facts. For instinct, the owner of the equity investment at risk, as a group, lose the power from voting rights to direct the activities of the entity that some characteristic impacts the economic entity’s performance. There will also be ongoing assessments of whether an enterprise is the key beneficiary of a variable interest entity.
We believe that Company I represents the Smaller Producer of printing papers and Company J represents the World’s Largest Market of Paper.
The primary purpose of this business research report is to estimate the relevant disclosure form the latest annual report 2016 regards to PPE and whether these disclosures satisfies the CF 's objective and qualitative characteristics. This report examines and assess on how the PPE fulfills the requirements of AASB 116 and the qualitative characteristics. Results shows the PPE are mainly meeting the requirement of AASB 116. However, some detailed disclosure information on PPE need to be more comprehend and I believe it will give you a final termination.
Accounting information can be useful in order to help predict future performance in the short and long term. It is important to note however that accounting information including accounting ratios show a company’s performance at a period in time. It is historical data. Trends can be identified by comparing data in sequential periods and future forecasts can be determined using historical data. There is no evidence or proof however, that these patterns will predict the future at a level of complete certainty. In my opinion, it would be hard to argue that decreasing profits over an extended period of time, or deteriorating liquid assets and increasing long term debt will have a
This essay will begin to look at the main financial statements used by decision makers in businesses today. This essay will go into detail about the income statement and statement of financial position and whether these two statements provide decision makers with their financial information adequately. This essay will also include the various advantages and disadvantages of each financial statement as well as describing whom the decision makers are and why financial statements are important to them. A conclusion will be present at the end of this essay to demonstrate an overall view of whether financial statements are beneficial to decision makers.