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ACC 573 Final Exam Guide FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.com   1. To calculate a
company's average tax rate an analyst would 2.
The accumulated benefit obligation measures 3.
The major difference between accounting for
pensions and the accounting for other
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ACC 573 Midterm Exam Guide FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.com   ACC 573 Midterm Exam
Guide 1. The two categories of shareholders'
equity usually found on the balance sheet of a
corporation are
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ACC 573 Week 1 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.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 credible
financial and operating information for company
stakeholders and potential investors, indicating
any gaps identified in the reporting.
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ACC 573 Week 1 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.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
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ACC 573 Week 2 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.com   In todays business
environment where publicly traded companies feel
pressure to meet short-term
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ACC 573 Week 2 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.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.
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ACC 573 Week 3 Assignment 1 Financial Statement
Restatement and Ethics FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.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
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ACC 573 Week 3 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.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
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ACC 573 Week 4 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.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 5 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.com   Create an argument for
the use of Fair Market Accounting as opposed to
historical cost. Provide support for your
argument.
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ACC 573 Week 4 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.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.
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ACC 573 Week 5 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.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 CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.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,
Public Accounting Company Oversight Board
(PACOB). Create an argument supporting whether
SOX achieved these goals, and whether financial
data
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ACC 573 Week 6 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.com   Assess the impact to
public trust when a publically traded company
restates its financial data,
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ACC 573 Week 7 Assignment 2 Accounting
Quality FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.acc573nerd.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
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ACC 573 Week 7 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.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
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ACC 573 Week 7 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.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 CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.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 CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.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. Assess which
cash-flow variables are the most sensitive to
change and the likely impact on a firms
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ACC 573 Week 9 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.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 CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.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 CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.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. Assess the performance
of the stock within the first year of the public
offering, indicating the drivers
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ACC 573 Week 10 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.acc573nerd.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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