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ACC 230 Entire Course For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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 Assignments 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 CheckPoint Analyzing an Income Statement
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ACC 230 Week 1 Checkpoint Financial
Statements For more classes visit www.snaptutorial
.com   CheckPoint Assessing Financial
Statements     Resources. 2 of Understanding
Financial Statements, and Ch. 1 PowerPoint (pp.
1-10, 1-11, and 1-13)     Search the 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 companys financial
statements from the EDGAR database at
http//www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm.
 
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ACC 230 Week 1 DQ 1 and DQ 2 For more classes
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Questions     Go to the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commissions Web site at
http//www.sec.gov and the Financial Accounting
Standards Boards Web 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.
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ACC 230 Week 2 Assignment Lucent Technologies
Case For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com  
Assignment Lucent Technologies Case  
  Resources. 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).
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ACC 230 Week 2 CheckPoint Differentiating
Depreciation Methods For more classes
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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 straight-line versus
accelerated.
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ACC 230 Week 3 CheckPoint Preparing an Income
Statement For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.
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).  
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ACC 230 Week 3 DQ 1 and DQ 2 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Discussion
Questions     Post your 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.
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ACC 230 Week 4 Assignment Web Sites Search For
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nt 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
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ACC 230 Week 4 CheckPoint Analyzing an Income
Statement For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.
com   CheckPoint Analyzing an Income
Statement     Resource Ch. 3 of Understanding
Financial Statements     Complete Problem 3.16b
on p. 111 (Ch. 3).
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ACC 230 Week 5 CheckPoint Preparing a Statement
of Cash Flows For more classes visit www.snaptutor
ial.com   CheckPoint Preparing a Statement of
Cash Flows     Resource Ch. 4 of Understanding
Financial Statements   Complete Problem 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.
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ACC 230 Week 5 DQ 1 and DQ 2 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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.
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ACC 230 Week 6 Assignment Candela Corporation
Case For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.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.
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ACC 230 Week 6 CheckPoint Analyzing Statements of
Cash Flows For more classes visit www.snaptutorial
.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.
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ACC 230 Week 7 CheckPoint Findwhat.com Case For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   CheckPoi
nt 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.
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ACC 230 Week 7 DQ 1 and DQ 2 For more classes
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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.
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ACC 230 Week 8 Analyzing Financial Data For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.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.
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ACC 230 Week 8 Assignment Presenting to
Stakeholders For more classes visit www.snaptutori
al.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).
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ACC 230 Week 8 CheckPoint Interpreting Financial
Ratios For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com
      CheckPoint Interpreting Financial
Ratios     Resource Ch. 6 of Understanding
Financial Statements
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ACC 230 Week 9 Capstone DQ For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Capstone Discussion
Question   What have you learned in this course
about the process of analyzing financial
statements?
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ACC 230 Week 9 Final Project Evaluating Financial
Health For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.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 companys financial
performance compares with others in your
companys industry.   Cite all of your sources,
and provide Web site URLs.
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