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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
• Which of the following is not part of the balance
  sheet

• 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 products
  or services for particular market niches, in
  order to achieve relatively high profit margins,
  this is best known as

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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 for
  your rationale.

• 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.
• Assess the ethical requirements as outlined in
  the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, indicating whether or not
  you

• 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

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• ACC 573 Week 3 Assignment 1 Financial Statement

• 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 restatement may have
  been avoided during the initial reporting process.

• 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

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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 argume
• 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
• As an investor, assess the potential financial
  concerns to be raised when reviewing the
  financial statements of a publically traded
  company

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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, Public Accounting Company
  Oversight Board (PACOB). Create an argument
  supporting whether SOX

• 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

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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.
• Create an argument supporting the value of
  forecasting to an organization.

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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.