Category: Accounting

Choose a publicly held corporation and find the balance sheet and notes to the financial statements in the most recent Form 10-K. The Form 10-K can be located by going to the home page of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and locating the SEC EDGAR Database. Look under the Filings tab for EDGAR search tools. If you need help, try the tutorial, How Do I Use EDGAR?
Write a three to four-page, APA-formatted paper that reviews the current assets, accounts receivable, other current assets, equipment, property, current liabilities, long-term debt, and stockholders’ equity of the company you chose. Based on your review, present a recommendation to a friend who is thinking about investing in the company. What are the strengths and weaknesses and what strategy would you recommend? Use and cite three credible and relevant resources (plus the textbook) in your evaluation and recommendation.
In your paper,
Analyze a company’s Balance Sheet and notes as found in the company’s Form 10-K.
Evaluate the company’s strengths and weaknesses.
Describe a strategy for investment.
Use three credible and relevant resources (plus the textbook) to support recommendations.
The Balance Sheet Analysis and Recommendation assignment
Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Styleresource.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Microsoft Word.
Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions as well as Writing a Thesis Statement, refer to the Writing Center resources.
Must use at least three credible sources in addition to the course text.
The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paperguide.
Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List resource in the Writing Center for specifications.

Week 3 – Discussions 1
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read
Chapters 10 and 11 in the course textbook.
Since financial investments are assets with a high degree
of inherent risk, companies must establish effective internal control over
their investments. Address the following in your discussion post:
·       
Describe segregation of
duties and dual control.
·       
Describe the functions
that should be segregated to provide good internal control over cash, the
receipt of cash, and financial investments.
·       
Describe two other
internal control policies that should be established for financial investments.
·       
List three audit tasks
related to the audit of financial investments that may require specialized
skill or knowledge.
Write: Make sure your response is more than
200 words and that you include an in-text citation or a brief quote from the
reading material where appropriate. You may find the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your PaperLinks to an external site. resource helpful in
citing your sources.
Week 3 – Discussions 2
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read
Chapters 10 and 11 in the course textbook.
Confirmation of accounts receivable is presumptively a
mandatory audit procedure. In performing this procedure, auditors use positive
confirmation requests or negative confirmation requests or a combination of
both. Address the following in your discussion post:
·       
Explain the difference
between negative and positive confirmations.
·       
Describe conditions
which should exist for the auditors to use the negative form of request.
·       
Describe conditions
which should exist for the auditors to use the positive form of request.
·       
If a response is not
received to an initial positive or negative confirmation request, describe the
action that should be taken by the auditors, including a discussion of
alternative auditing procedures.
Write: Make sure your response is more than
200 words and that you include an in-text citation or a brief quote from the
reading material where appropriate. You may find the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your PaperLinks to an external site. resource helpful in
citing your sources.

complete the accounting excel spreadsheet by following the instructions of each question and show work and observations for each question.

************ONLY MILESTONE FOR WEEK 3 *************
All intructions will be uploaded as PDF file in the upload section. 
I will also upload book of the class for reference. 

Hello please see the rurbric and details on assignment in the attachement. The approved ttopic of discussion is https://www.ifrs.org/projects/work-plan/annual-improvements-to-ifrs-accounting-standards-cost-method-amendments-to-ias-7/#current-stage. 

Please see the rubric for detailed instructions on the assignment. Attache you will also find an example of what needs to be completed. The topic should be Cisco Systems Inc-CSCO-NASDAQ

This assignment consist of having to compelete form1065 and a3 page paper with 2 credible sources. I have attached form1065 along with exact instructions on what information should be included within the 3 pages. PLEASE NO PLAGAIRISM.

Instructions
Complete requirements 1 through 3 of Jane’s Skateboards for the first milestone of the course project. You have the option of using either the T-Accounts tab for posting Journal Entries or the General Ledger tab.
You will use the Excel Project Template for Jane’s Skateboards attached below.
DO NOT change the Excel template drop-down menus or formulas that are already in the template.
You should watch the videos in the Content tab above, under Week 2, to assist you in preparing this assignment.
Save your file as “LastnameFirstinitial-ACCT105-M1.”
Submit your work by midnight ET on Day 7 (Sunday).
**NOTE: Please make sure you review the instructions in the Excel template, so you do not miss any requirements. Again, DO NOT change the Excel template format, drop-down menus, or formulas that are already in the template.
Your homework exercises/problems will be evaluated according to the following Homework Problems Grading:
GradeHomework Problems Grading Criteria
90-100%
Assigned exercises/problems are completed in full.
Work demonstrates effective application of the concepts/principles covered in the chapter.
Work thoroughly explains answers and calculations.
Solutions are calculated with no errors or insignificant errors.
80-89%
Assigned exercises/problems are completed in full or are significantly complete.
Work demonstrates effective application of most concepts/principles covered in the chapter.
Work thoroughly explains most answers and calculations.
Solutions are calculated with insignificant errors.
70-79%
Assigned exercises/problems are mostly complete.
Work demonstrates effective application of some concepts/principles covered in the chapter.
Work explains some answers and calculations.
Solutions are calculated with significant errors.
60-69%
Assigned exercises/problems are fairly complete.
Work demonstrates effective application of a few concepts/principles covered in the chapter.
Work explains a few answers and calculations.
Solutions are calculated with significant errors.
0-59%
Assigned exercises/problems are less than 50% complete.
Work does not demonstrate effective application of the concepts covered in the chapter.
Work submitted does not thoroughly explain answers and calculations.
Solutions are not calculated or are calculated with significant errors.

FIN 320 Final Project Business Options List
Choose one of the following businesses to use for your final project. You’ll also use this business in Final
Project Milestone One and Final Project Milestone Two.
Business Options
• Johnson and Johnson (JNJ) 
• Meta Platforms Inc. (META) 
• Tesla (TSLA) 
• Microsoft (MSFT) 
• Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG)  
Overview
This milestone is the first in a series of connected assignments leading up to your Final Project. In Milestone One, you’ll analyze and evaluate a business’s financial health and recommend financing options that can improve it. Use the Final Project Business Options List to choose the business that you’ll examine in your Final Project. 
Then use Mergent ( https://www-mergentonline-com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/basicsearch.php )
Online to locate the latest quarterly financial statements for the business: the balance sheet, the income statement, and the cash flow statement.
Scenario
The CFO of your company has asked for your support in preparing a report for the business’s board of directors. Many of the board members are new, and some of them have little background in finance. With this in mind, you will need to write a report that all board members can easily understand.
Directions
Write a short paper that introduces the business you chose for your final project.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Business Selection: Select a company from the Final Project Business Options List and describe the business you chose, including the business name and what the business offers consumers.
Financial Statements: Using Mergent Online, look up the balance sheet, the income statement, and the cash flow statement for the latest fiscal quarter for the business you chose. Use these statements to accurately report the following values:
Total assets
Total liabilities
Current assets
Current liabilities
Net income
Shares outstanding
Earnings per share (EPS)
Total revenue
Shareholders’ equity
Financial Statement Role: Explain why financial statements are important to a business and how they help a business determine its financial health.
Cash Flow Management: Use a financial news story from the past two months as an example to explain why cash flow management is important to a business and its financial health.
What to Submit
Your submission should be a 4- to 5-paragraph Microsoft Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. All sources should be cited using APA style. Include the Balance Sheet and Income Statement from Mergent Online with your submission.

For this discussion, think about your personal experience with the topics along with the material covered in this module. 
Instructions:
This module discusses the different types of costs that are found in different types of businesses and how they are applied to jobs. Discuss all of the following:
The flow of costs from raw materials to cost of goods sold (the flow all the way through the production process until they are sold to a customer) in a manufacturing organization.  
How the cost flows differ in a depending on the type of business (retail organizations, service organizations, and manufacturing organizations). 
How costs flow in your organization based on your understanding of the material. 
Optional Additional Videos of Examples:
1. Direct vs. Indirect Costs: 
Source: Accounting University.  (2017).  What is a Direct Cost vs. Indirect Cost?  Retrieved from: https://youtu.be/PT4zQYdQIz4
2. Job vs. Process Costing: 
Source: ProfAlldredge. (2015).  Managerial Accounting: Job vs. Process Costing.  Retrieved from:https://youtu.be/YkiQbR4BO5ELinks to an external site.
3. Allocating overhead using a predetermined overhead rate
Source: Ingram, K. (2013).  Allocating Overhead Using a Predetermined Overhead Rate.  Retrieved from: https://youtu.be/L0B2UDwmBoM