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The Team Members Arrived At Business Library At 6pm

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We held our first meeting on October 25, 2015. All of the team members arrived in business library at 3pm. We started by creating one Google Doc and one Google Spreadsheet because it is the most efficient way for everyone to work on the different problems at the same time. The second meeting was on October 27 at 2 pm to wrap up problems and to work on case report.
Chen started to work on problem A, April was assigned to problem B and problem D. Fiona was assigned to problem D and a part of problem E. Yunhua Wan has accomplished part of Welburn Income Statement and problem H.
For question A, the reason we pick these account balance is because we believe that these accounts represent the overall financial position for Pinnacle Manufacturing …show more content…

By analyzing the year-to-year account balance, in 2013, Income from Operation increased and Operating Expense decreased as promised. For problem B, we chose to calculate cash ratio and current ratio to test Pinnacle’s ability to pay off their short-term debts, accounts receivable turnover to test the liquidity level of their current assets, debt to equity ratio to test their ability to meet their long-term debt obligations, profit margin to test their profitability level. When we started to calculate accounts receivable turnover, we realized we couldn’t come up with an accurate number because we don’t have Pinnacle’s ending accounts receivable balance in 2010 which is also the beginning accounts receivable balance in 2011 in order to calculate the average accounts receivable for year 2011. We had some discussions about how to come up with the closest number as possible. Chen suggested to take the average of changes in 2011-2012 and 2012-2013, but April argues we can’t assume there was an increase from 2010 to 2011 solely based on there were an increase three years in a row from 2011 to 2013. So we decided the closest we could get was just use the accounts receivable account balance in 2011 as the denominator.
For problem C, we decided to use Similar Prior-Period Data analytical procedure. We observed the differences between current year’s balance with that of the preceding year, the differences between the

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