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ACC 230 Reading feeds the Imagination/Uophelpdotcom

ACC 230 Week 1 Checkpoint Financial Statements<br>ACC 230 Week 1 DQ 1 and DQ 2<br>ACC 230 Week 2 CheckPoint Differentiating Depreciation Methods<br>ACC 230 Week 2 Assignment Lucent Technologies Case<br>ACC 230 Week 3 CheckPoint Preparing an Income Statement<br>ACC 230 Week 3 DQ 1 and DQ 2<br>ACC 230 Week 4 CheckPointAnalyzing an Income Statement<br>ACC 230 Week 4 Assignment Web Sites Search<br>ACC 230 Week 5 CheckPoint Preparing a Statement of Cash Flows<br>ACC 230 Week 5 DQ 1 and DQ 2<br>

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ACC 230 Reading feeds the Imagination/Uophelpdotcom

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  1. ACC 230 Reading feeds the Imagination/Uophelpdotcom For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com

  2. ACC 230 Entire Course For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com ACC 230 Week 1 Checkpoint Financial Statements ACC 230 Week 1 DQ 1 and DQ 2 ACC 230 Week 2 CheckPoint Differentiating Depreciation Methods ACC 230 Week 2 Assignment Lucent Technologies Case ACC 230 Week 3 CheckPoint Preparing an Income Statement ACC 230 Week 3 DQ 1 and DQ 2 ACC 230 Week 4 CheckPointAnalyzing an Income Statement ACC 230 Week 4 Assignment Web Sites Search ACC 230 Week 5 CheckPoint Preparing a Statement of Cash Flows ACC 230 Week 5 DQ 1 and DQ 2

  3. ACC 230 Week 1 Checkpoint Financial Statements For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com CheckPoint: Assessing Financial Statements Resource:Ch. 2 of Understanding Financial Statements,and Ch. 1 PowerPoint® (pp. 1-10, 1-11, and 1-13) Searchthe Internet for the financial statements of your favorite company or your employer. You may either locate the corporate Web site for your chosen company, or you may select a company’s financial statements from the EDGAR database at http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm.

  4. ACC 230 Week 1 DQ 1 and DQ 2 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com Discussion Questions Go to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov and the Financial Accounting Standards Board’sWeb site at http://www.fasb.org. Identify the mission and main activities of each organization. Then, analyze the similarities and differences between the roles of each entity. Which entity has more influence over financial statement reporting? Explain your answer. Search the Internet or the Online Library for information about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. A useful guide to some of these provisions is located at http://www.soxlaw.com. Summarize at least two provisions of the law, and discuss your interpretation of these provisions with your classmates. Do you think this law will make financial statements more reliable? Also, discuss how Sarbanes-Oxley establishes boundaries to ensure ethical practices. What does the law allow or prohibit, and why?

  5. ACC 230 Week 2 Assignment Lucent Technologies Case For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com Assignment: Lucent Technologies Case Resource:Ch. 2 of Understanding Financial Statements Read Case 2.1: Lucent Technologies on pp. 79-80 (Ch. 2) of the text. Compose a 500- to 750-word paper that includes your answers to questions 2-4 on p. 79 (Ch. 2). Format your paper according to APA standards. Post your paper as an attachment.

  6. ACC 230 Week 2 CheckPoint Differentiating Depreciation Methods For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com CheckPoint: Differentiating Depreciation Methods Resource:Ch. 2 of Understanding Financial Statements Compose a 200- to 300-word response to Question 2.4 on p. 74 (Ch. 2). In addition, include a summary of the advantages and disadvantages of using different depreciation methods, such as straightline versus accelerated.

  7. ACC 230 Week 3 CheckPoint Preparing an Income Statement For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com CheckPoint: Preparing an Income Statement Resources:Ch. 3 of Understanding Financial Statements, andmultistep_template.xls Complete Problem 3.10 on p. 109 (Ch. 3). Use multistep_template.xls to prepare a multiple-step income statement. Write a 200- to 300-word summary analyzing the implications of profitability and the net income of the company.

  8. ACC 230 Week 3 DQ 1 and DQ 2 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com Discussion Questions Postyour answer to Problem 3.5 on p. 109 (Ch. 3). How might the information contained within the stockholder equity statement be used for management and investor decision-making? Provide specific examples of situations in which the stockholder equity information might be used. Provide an example from the text or the Internet that demonstrates a situation in which a company’s net profits appeared good in the statements, but the gross or operating profits presented a different picture. Discuss how this might have occurred.Respond to the following question, addressed in Problem 3.6 on p. 109 (Ch. 3): “Why is the bottom-line figure, net income, not necessarily a good indicator of a firm’s financial success?” Look for indicators like liquidity or solvency to answer this discussion question.

  9. ACC 230 Week 4 Assignment Web Sites Search For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com Assignment: Web Sites Search Resource:Ch. 3 of Understanding Financial Statements Research Web sites that contain examples of stock dividends, stock splits, and reverse splits. Yahoo! Finance at http://finance.yahoo.com is a helpful starting point for locating these Web sites. Write a 750- to 1,050-word paper based on your findings. Include the following in your paper:

  10. ACC 230 Week 4 CheckPointAnalyzing an Income Statement For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com CheckPoint: Analyzing an Income Statement Resource:Ch. 3 of Understanding Financial Statements Complete Problem 3.16b on p. 111 (Ch. 3). Analyze the income statement of Eastman Kodak, located at http://wps.prenhall.com/bp_fraser_financial_8. Select Chapter 1 from the top menu, then selectInternet Links in the left-hand menu to access the income statement.

  11. ACC 230 Week 5 CheckPoint Preparing a Statement of Cash Flows For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com CheckPoint: Preparing a Statement of Cash Flows Resource:Ch. 4 of Understanding Financial Statements CompleteProblem 4.5 on p. 141 (Ch. 4). Refer to Exhibit 4.1 on p. 118 (Ch. 4) to create your statement of cash flows. Submit your completed statement of cash flows and a 200- to 300-word analysis of the statement.

  12. ACC 230 Week 5 DQ 1 and DQ 2 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com Discussion Questions In what ways does the statement of cash flows relate to the balance sheet and income statement? Discuss how the statement of cash flows is utilized by investors. If you were an investor reviewing a statement of cash flows, what section might interest you most? Why? Discuss the circumstances in which other sections of the statement might be important to an investor.

  13. ACC 230 Week 6 Assignment Candela Corporation Case For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com Assignment: Candela Corporation Case Resource:Ch. 4 of Understanding Financial Statements Compose a 500- to 750-word paper responding to questions 1 and 2 of the Candela Corporation Case on p. 146 (Ch. 4). Format your paper according to APA standards. Postyour paper as an attachment.

  14. ACC 230 Week 6 CheckPointAnalyzing Statements of Cash Flows For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com CheckPoint: Analyzing Statements of Cash Flows Resource:Ch. 4 of Understanding Financial Statements Complete Research Problem 4.8a on p. 142 (Ch. 4); however, choose three companies to compare instead of five. Post your table in a Microsoft® Excel or Word document.

  15. ACC 230 Week 7 CheckPointFindwhat For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com CheckPoint: Findwhat.com Case Resources:Ch. 5 of Understanding Financial Statements, and Exhibit 5.1: A Checklist for Earnings Quality on p. 153 (Ch. 5) Compose a 200- to 300-word response to the Findwhat.com Case on p. 188 (Ch. 5). Refer to the checklist, Exhibit 1, on p. 153 (Ch. 5) for assistance with identifying quality issues.

  16. ACC 230 Week 7 DQ 1 and DQ 2 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com Discussion Questions Post your answer to Study Question 5.2 on p. 180 (Ch. 5). As you read your classmates’ responses, consider the following scenario: If you compared two different companies that utilized two different valuation methods, how might the quality of the results differ? Also, comment on the difficulty of making comparisons between two firms that use different valuation methods. Post your answer to Study Question 5.6 on p. 180 (Ch. 5). Discuss the consequences of poorquality reporting. What has the U.S. government done to improve the quality of reporting after recent financial scandals such as Enron?

  17. ACC 230 Week 8 Analyzing Financial Data For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com CheckPoint: Analyzing Financial Data Resource:Ch. 6 of Understanding Financial Statements Complete Problem 6.6 on p. 232 (Ch. 6). Submit your answers to questions A and B.

  18. ACC 230 Week 8 Assignment Presenting to Stakeholders For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com Assignment: Presenting to Stakeholders Resource:pp. 192-193 (Ch. 6) of Understanding Financial Statements Read the scenario in Problem 6.9 on p. 234 (Ch. 6). Compose a 350- to 500-word response that includes a paragraph about the main ideas of the annual report and an explanation of how you might present these ideas to stakeholders. Refer to the questions in the Objectives of Analysis section on pp. 192-193 (Ch. 6) for guidance on tailoring ideas to present to stakeholders

  19. ACC 230 Week 8 CheckPoint Interpreting Financial Ratios For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com CheckPoint: Interpreting Financial Ratios Resource:Ch. 6 of Understanding Financial Statements Complete Problem 6.2 on p. 230 (Ch. 6). Submit your answer in 200 to 300words

  20. ACC 230 Week 9 Capstone DQ For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com Capstone Discussion Question What have you learned in this course about the process of analyzing financial statements?

  21. ACC 230 Week 9 Final Project Evaluating Financial Health For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com Final Project: Evaluating Financial Health Resources: Appendix A, Ch. 1 PowerPoint®, and Ch. 6 of Understanding Financial Statements Write a 750- to 1,050-word paper evaluating the financial health of a company. Highlight the importance of industry comparisons and trends. Conduct an industry comparison. In your paper, discuss how your company’s financial performance compares with others in your company’s industry. Cite all of your sources, and provide Web site URLs. Format your paper according to APA standards. Post your paper as a Microsoft® Word attachment. Submit a 3- to 5-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation that highlights the financial data of your company and illustrates the comparisons you wrote about in your paper.

  22. ACC 230 Reading feeds the Imagination/Uophelpdotcom For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com

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