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ACC 230 Week 1 Checkpoint Financial Statements
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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 ACC 230 Week 4 Assignment Web
Sites Search ACC 230 Week 5 Checkpoints Preparing
a Statement of Cash Flows ACC 230 Week 5 DQ 1 and
DQ 2
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
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ACC 230 Week 2 Assignment Lucent Technologies Case
ACC 230 Week 1 DQ 1 and DQ 2
Discussion 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.
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).  Format your paper according to APA
standards.
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ACC 230 Week 2 CheckPoint Differentiating
Depreciation Methods
ACC 230 Week 2 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).  Format your
paper according to APA standards.  Post your
paper as an attachment.
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
ACC 230 Week 3 DQ 1 and DQ 2
CheckPoint Preparing an Income
Statement Resources Ch. 3 of Understanding
Financial Statements, andmultistep_template.xls Co
mplete Problem 3.10 on p. 109 (Ch. 3). Write a
200- to 300-word summary analyzing the
implications of profitability and the net income
of the company
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
ACC 230 Week 4 CheckPoint Analyzing an Income
Statement
Assignment Web Sites Search 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.
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
ACC 230 Week 5 DQ 1 and DQ 2
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.
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
ACC 230 Week 6 CheckPoint Analyzing Statements of
Cash Flows
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.  
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
ACC 230 Week 7 DQ 1 and DQ 2
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).
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
ACC 230 Week 8 Assignment Presenting to
Stakeholders
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.
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.  
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ACC 230 Week 8 CheckPoint Interpreting Financial
Ratios
ACC 230 Week 9 Capstone DQ
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
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
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.
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