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  • ACC 573 Final Exam Guide
  • ACC 573 Midterm Exam Guide
  • 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
  • ACC 573 Midterm Exam Guide 
  • The two categories of shareholders' equity
    usually found on the balance sheet of a
    corporation are
  • When a firm attempting to create unique

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  • ACC 573 Week 1 DQ 1
  • ACC 573 Week 1 DQ 2
  • 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
  • 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
  • ACC 573 Week 2 DQ 2
  • 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.
  • 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

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  • ACC 573 Week 3 Assignment 1 Financial Statement
    Restatement and Ethics
  • ACC 573 Week 3 DQ 1
  • 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
  • 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,

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  • ACC 573 Week 4 DQ 1
  • ACC 573 Week 4 DQ 2
  • 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.
  • 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
  • ACC 573 Week 5 DQ 2
  • Create an argument for the use of Fair Market
    Accounting as opposed to historical cost. Provide
    support for your argument.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of the accounting
    principle guidelines for determining the market
    value of an asset, indicating improvements to
    these guidelines. Provide support for your
    recommendations.
  • 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
  • ACC 573 Week 6 DQ 2
  • 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,
  • 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.

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  • ACC 573 Week 7 Assignment 2 Accounting Quality
  • ACC 573 Week 7 DQ 1
  • 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.
  • 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.

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  • ACC 573 Week 7 DQ 2
  • ACC 573 Week 8 DQ 1
  • 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.
  • 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
  • ACC 573 Week 9 DQ 1
  • 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.
  • 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

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  • ACC 573 Week 9 DQ 2
  • ACC 573 Week 10 Assignment 3 Company Valuation
    (Facebook IPO)
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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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