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ACC 573 Final Exam Guide   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com      To calculate a
company's average tax rate an analyst would The
accumulated benefit obligation measures The major
difference between accounting for pensions and
the accounting for other postretirement benefits
is that firms Which of the following is not part
of the balance sheet approach when computing
income tax expense?
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ACC 573 Midterm Exam Guide   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com         ACC 573
Midterm Exam Guide   The two categories of
shareholders' equity usually found on the balance
sheet of a corporation are
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ACC 573 Week 1 DQ 1   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com         Based on your
review of the SEC reporting requirements as
outlined in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, assess the
adequacy of the reporting requirements for
providing credible financial and operating
information for company stakeholders and
potential investors, indicating any gaps
identified in the reporting. Provide support for
your rationale.
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ACC 573 Week 1 DQ 2   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com         Assess how
the GAAP and IFRS convergence project has
impacted SEC reporting requirements, predicting
the long-term impact of the convergence on
reporting. Provide a rationale for your
prediction.  
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ACC 573 Week 2 DQ 1   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com         As a CFO of a
publically traded company, suggest how you would
create an ethical environment to ensure account
balances are correctly valued and reported so
that information is reliable for users. Provide
support for your rationale.
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ACC 573 Week 2 DQ 2   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com         In todays
business environment where publicly traded
companies feel pressure to meet short-term
earnings expectations, management may be tempted
to manage earnings. Assess how a financial
statement user may be able to detect managed
earnings when reviewing the firms balance sheet,
income statement, and cash-flow statement.
Indicate how a potential investor might interpret
these red-flags. Provide support for your
rationale.
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ACC 573 Week 3 Assignment 1 Financial Statement
Restatement and Ethics   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com         Write a two
to three (2-3) page paper in which you Assess
the factors that contributed to the financial
statement restatement, signifying the executive
management teams attitude toward the
restatement. Suggest how the restatement may have
been avoided during the initial reporting process.
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  ACC 573 Week 3 DQ 1   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com         As part of
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate officers are no
longer able to pass the buck of responsibility
for ensuring adequate controls over financial
statements and reporting activities thus ensuring
the accuracy of financial statements. Assess the
adequacy of the provisions contained within the
Act, indicating whether or not you believe
requirements will improve
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    ACC 573 Week 4 DQ 1   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com Based on your review
of the current requirements of the SEC and FASB,
assess the adequacy of the guidelines for
ensuring the transparency of off-balance-sheet
transactions to investors, indicating where
improvements may still be needed. Provide support
for your rationale.
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ACC 573 Week 4 DQ 2   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com         Based on the
information found in the e-Activity, assess the
key differences between U.S. GAAP and IFRS
reporting for the testing of asset impairment and
the requirement to write down the asset value.
Indicate whether or not you support the U.S. GAAP
or IFRS approach. Provide support for your
position.
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ACC 573 Week 5 DQ 1   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com         Create an
argument for the use of Fair Market Accounting as
opposed to historical cost. Provide support for
your argument.
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ACC 573 Week 5 DQ 2   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com         Assess the
risks associated with derivatives instruments,
indicating how these risks may be minimized for a
publically traded company. Provide support for
your rationale.
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ACC 573 Week 6 DQ 1   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com         The
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act was created with the
intent of improving the quality of accounting,
reliability of financial statements to investors,
and providing oversight to accounting
professionals through the creation of a new
federal agency,
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  ACC 573 Week 6 DQ 2   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com  Assess the impact to
public trust when a publically traded company
restates its financial data, indicating how
negative impressions may be minimized. Provide
support for your rationale. Evaluate the current
trend of companies restating financial
statements. Indicate the key drivers of this
trend. Predict the trend over the next five
years, providing support for your rationale.    
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ACC 573 Week 7 Assignment 2 Accounting Quality  
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    Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in
which you Assess the roles of the Board of
Directors and Chief Executive Officer of a public
company for establishing an ethical environment
that generates quality accounting and reliable
financial reporting for use by shareholders and
investors. Provide support for your assessment.
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ACC 573 Week 7 DQ 1   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com         Assess the
financial performance forecasting process,
identifying the assumptions made that are most
likely to cause a gap between the forecast and
actual performance. Indicate how these gaps may
be minimized. Provide support for your rationale.
Create an argument supporting the value of
forecasting to an organization. Provide support
for your argument.
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  ACC 573 Week 7 DQ 2   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com         Assess the
market and shareholder behaviors when a
publically traded company makes the decision not
to pay dividends to its shareholders, suggesting
how management should react to these behaviors.
Provide support for your rationale.
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ACC 573 Week 8 DQ 1   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com         Create an
argument that use of the present value free
cash-flow method has a more beneficial economic
meaning than earnings-based methods. Provide
support for your argument.
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ACC 573 Week 8 DQ 2   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com         Assess how
the free cash-flow method can be used when a
company is profitable yet the cash-flow values
are expected to be negative over the next five
years, indicating the likely impact on the
valuation. Provide support for your
rationale. Assess which cash-flow variables are
the most sensitive to change and the likely
impact on a firms valuation. Provide support for
your answe
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ACC 573 Week 9 DQ 1   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com       Create an
argument supporting that using the earnings-based
valuation method yields the most accurate
results. Provide support for your argument.
Assess the challenges related to using the
earnings-based valuation method in practice,
suggesting how each of these challenges may be
overcome. Provide support for your rationale.  
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ACC 573 Week 9 DQ 2   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com   Evaluate the likely
impact on a firms valuation when using U.S. GAAP
versus IFRS accounting methods, indicating which
accounting standards you believe may yield a more
favorable result. Provide support for your
position. Determine how a firms valuation
using the earnings-based valuation method would
be impacted when using aggressive versus
conservative accounting. Provide evidence
supporting your conclusion.  
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ACC 573 Week 10 Assignment 3 Company Valuation
(Facebook IPO)   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com         Assess how
the GAAP and IFRS convergence project has
impacted SEC reporting requirements, predicting
the long-term impact of the convergence on
reporting. Provide a rationale for your
prediction.    
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ACC 573 Week 10 DQ 1   For more classes
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Create an argument supporting that using the
market-based valuation method yields the most
accurate results. Provide support for your
argument.
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