Accounting

This week you were introduced to managerial accounting and cost methods. Discuss the differences between fixed, mixed and variable costs and provide examples. Why is it important for managers to understand these costs?

Summarize three key financial metrics of interest to stockholders and then three key metrics of interest to one of the following groups: bankers, bondholders, managers, consumers, politicians. Describe and define the metrics effects in understanding and explaining how to employ the metrics for future financial analyses. It should be open-ended to allow interaction.

Answer the following questions: – Explain why the marginal cost of production must increased if the marginal product of the marginal resource is decreasing. – Define productivity efficiency and allocative efficiency. What conditions must be met in order to achieve them? – Originality Report .5 pt (No higher than 30%.. Anything above 60% will be carefully assessed and with a high probability that you will be requested to re-submit) – Content Relevancy .5 pt (100% relevant content to the subject matter) All explanations must be based on your own words, Not copy and paste from the internet Plagiarism free

Read the resource article How to Structure the Purchase or Sale of a Business, then post the pros and cons of structuring a sale of a business as a stock transaction versus a sale of assets.

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapter 2 in the textbook, which explains the contents of balance sheets and gives you a foundation of knowledge to complete this assignment. Next, review the article, Reading a Balance Sheet. Also, you might want to review How to Read a 10-K before beginning. 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 Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style 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 Word 2013. 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 Ashford 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 Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications. Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

1. If you were to start up your own business (or if you already have), which form of business would you likely choose?  Explain why you would make that choice, incorporating the advantages and disadvantages of that form of business as discussed in your text and how those would influence your decision. 2. What impact do you think the form of business has on the company’s accounting, including the presentation of equity accounts in the financial statements?

In this project, you will write a memo to give tax advice to someone that is making an important decision for an organization.  You may put yourself in a position that is either internal (e.g. employee) or external (e.g. public accountant, consultant, attorney), and you should identify yourself and the person to whom you write, both by name and title.

Assume that you are a CEO of a medium-sized company that needs a significant influx of cash for several expansion projects. As the CEO, you must determine whether your company should remain private or go public. Some companies postpone going public due to the unpredictability of economic and market conditions. Consider the ramifications of both alternatives. Construct an argument for and against going public. Write a 4 page paper in which you: 1-Outline three ways in which a medium-sized private company may benefit from going public, providing a rationale for each. 2-Create an argument that the same goals may be achieved if the company remains a privately held entity. Provide support for the argument. 3-Suggest four leading financial ratios that will be evaluated and how each will affect the company’s decision to obtain expansion funds. Determine whether the results of the ratios would alter the decision to go public. By researching the results of SOX compliance surveys, assess the financial effect that SOX might have on a company if it decides to go public. Considering the impact of SOX compliance, take a position as to whether your company can overcome the challenges posed by SOX compliance if the decision is to go public. Based on research, support the decision by identifying the potential advantages and disadvantages that SOX may have on the company. Provide specific examples. 4-Make a recommendation as the CEO regarding the alternative (i.e., going public or staying private) that will best support the company’s expansion goals. Support the position.

How do public accountants differ from management accountants? Who are the key users of the accounting information? What type of information does each stakeholder group need? Financial statements are prepared using generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). What group is responsible for establishing these principles, and what goals guide their formulation? Why are many generally accepted accounting principles likely to change in the future? State the accounting equation and define each of its terms. What elements contained on a balance sheet? How is this structure related to the accounting equation? You have a company’s balance sheet, its income statement, and its statement of cash flows. Which would you refer to in the following situations: If you wanted to know if a company made a profit last year. If you wanted to fin out whether the firm had any intangible assets. If you wanted to know why its cash balance had changed over the past year. If you wanted to know how much debt the firm had used to finance its assets. If you wanted to know what the firm’s operating expenses were for the past year. Describe the three basic categories of cash flows reported by a statement of cash flows. Give examples of specific cash flows in each category. Identify and describe the basic elements of an income statement. Explain how the accrual basis of accounting guides the way information on the income statement is reported. What is the purpose of an external audit by an independent CPA firm? How does an auditor go about conducting an audit? What is the purpose of budgeting? What is the master budget, and what are its major components? How does a top down budgeting process differ from a bottom up approach, and what are two advantages and two disadvantages of each. Describe the key differences between financial accounting and managerial accounting. How do management accountants view cost? How do implicit costs differ from explicit costs? Give two examples to illustrate the difference.

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