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ACC 573 Final Exam Guide For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.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
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ACC 573 Midterm Exam Guide For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.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
characteristics is consistent with a
pharmaceutical company?
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ACC 573 Week 1 DQ 1 For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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. Provide
support for your rationale.
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ACC 573 Week 1 DQ 2 For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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.newtonhelp.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 2 DQ 2 For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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-flow statement.
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ACC 573 Week 3 Assignment 1 Financial Statement
Restatement and Ethics For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.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.newtonhelp.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 of the provisions contained within the
Act, indicating whether or not you believe
requirements will improve the accuracy of
financial statements and reporting. Provide
support for your rationale.
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ACC 573 Week 4 DQ 1 For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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.newtonhelp.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.newtonhelp.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, indicating
improvements to these guidelines. Provide support
for your recommendations.
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ACC 573 Week 5 DQ 2 For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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. As an investor, assess the
potential financial concerns to be raised when
reviewing the financial statements of a
publically traded company containing derivative
instruments providing a recommendation for how
the concerns may be identified and addressed.
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ACC 573 Week 6 DQ 1 For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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 reported today is more accurate and reliable
than prior to the Act. Provide support for your
rationale.
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ACC 573 Week 6 DQ 2 For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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. 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 for your rationale.
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ACC 573 Week 7 Assignment 2 Accounting Quality
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m     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.newtonhelp.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. Create an argument
supporting the value of forecasting to an
organization. Provide support for your argument.
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ACC 573 Week 7 DQ 2 For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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.newtonhelp.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.newtonhelp.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.newtonhelp.com     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 each of these challenges may be
overcome. Provide support for your rationale.
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ACC 573 Week 9 DQ 2 For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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. Determine how a firms valuation
using the earnings-based valuation method would
be impacted when using aggressive versus
conservative accounting. Provide evidence
supporting your conclusion.
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ACC 573 Week 10 Assignment 3 Company Valuation
(Facebook IPO) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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.newtonhelp.com     Create an
argument supporting that using the market-based
valuation method yields the most accurate
results. Provide support for your argument.
Assess the challenges related to using
the market-based valuation method in practice,
suggesting how each of these challenges may be
overcome. Provide support for your rationale.  
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