375841 Review the following article and provide your take away. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.129.7711&rep=rep1&type=pdf 2. Describe the impact when executives approve, directly or indirectly, the inclusion of false information in the company’s financial statements that are released to the public. What impact might this information have on investors? How are these actions punishable by the government? Note: The […]

37585Class – Please answer the following questions in detail 1. Profits might be compared with sales, assets, or stockholders’ equity. Why might all three bases be used? Will trends in these ratios always move in the same direction? 2.What is the advantage of segregating extraordinary items in the income statement? 3. What is return on […]

37582Please review Amazon’s income statement here: http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amzn/financials?query=income-statement (a) Provide an analysis of Amazon’s revenue over the past few years. What type of growth has the major online retailer experienced? (b) You will notice that gross profit has grown over time. Why do you think this is the case with Amazon? Please consider the introductions of […]

37583Safeway participates in various multi-employer retirement plans, covering substantially all Company employees not covered under the Company’s non-contributory retirement plans. These multi-employer retirement plans are generally defined benefit plans and are pursuant to agreements between the Company and various unions. In many cases, specific benefit lev- els are not negotiated with contributing employers or in […]

37581Class – Please answer the following questions in detail. 1. What is meant by a predictor variable and what is the equivalent concept called in linear regression? 2. What is meant by continuous controls monitoring? In what circumstances does the risk scoring methodology work best? 3. Briefly describe the risk-score approach or the risk-scoring methodology. […]