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ACC 573 Final Exam Guide  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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? The
assessment of earnings quality is best
accomplished through the use of which one of the
following?
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ACC 573 Midterm Exam Guide  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   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 Which of the following economic cha
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ACC 573 Week 1 DQ 1  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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
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ACC 573 Week 1 DQ 2  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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 course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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.  Assess the ethical
requirements as out
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ACC 573 Week 2 DQ 2  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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-
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ACC 573 Week 3 Assignment 1 Financial Statement
Restatement and Ethics For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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 course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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
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ACC 573 Week 4 DQ 1  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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 course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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 course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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,
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ACC 573 Week 5 DQ 2  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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 course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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 course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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. 
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ACC 573 Week 7 Assignment 2 Accounting
Quality  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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 course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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. 
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ACC 573 Week 7 DQ 2  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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 course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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 course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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.
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ACC 573 Week 9 DQ 1  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   Create an argument
supporting that using the earnings-based
valuation method yields the most accurate
results. Provide support for your argument.
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ACC 573 Week 9 DQ 2  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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. 
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ACC 573 Week 10 Assignment 3 Company Valuation
(Facebook IPO)  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   Write a five to six
(5-6) page paper in which you Evaluate the
valuation and method used to determine the
Initial Public Offering value of Facebook stock,
indicating any miscalculations in the valuation
that may have mislead potential investors and how
these errors may have been minimized. Provide
support for your response.
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ACC 573 Week 10 DQ 1  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com           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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