Vault Career Guide to AccountingVault Inc., 2005 - 125 pages Accountants are crucial players in business, monitoring corporate financial activity and providing strategic financial guidance. It's time to start your own accounting career. Read this guide and you'll learn the ins and outs of accounting careers, including the structure and hiring practices of the largest accounting firms, the lowdown on the CPA exam, and much more. Inside the guide: a breakdown of accounting careers, expert advice on getting hired by the largest accounting firms, insider compensation and lifestyle info. - Back cover. |
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Page 13 - Financial reporting should provide information to help present and potential investors and creditors and other users in assessing the amounts, timing, and uncertainty of prospective cash receipts from dividends or interest and the proceeds from the sale, redemption, or maturity of securities or loans. Since investors...
Page 19 - The four basic statements contained in the annual report are the balance sheet, the income statement, the statement of retained earnings, and the statement of cash flows.
Page 121 - Goodwill, which is discussed in more detail in the next chapter, is defined as the excess of the cost of an acquired company over the sum of the fair market value of its identifiable individual assets less the liabilities.
Page 13 - Understand the objectives of financial reporting. The objectives of financial reporting are to provide information that is (1) useful to those making investment and credit decisions who have a reasonable understanding of business activities; (2) helpful to present and potential investors, creditors, and others in assessing future cash flows; and (3) about economic resources and the claims to and changes in them. O Identify the qualitative characteristics of accounting information. The overriding...
Page 13 - When the cumbersome layering of additional rules, issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB...
Page 119 - Cash and other assets that are expected to be converted to cash, sold or consumed in the normal course of operations within one year.
Page 120 - EBIT Earnings before interest and taxes EBITDA Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ED Exposure Draft EPS Earnings per share EStG Einkommensteuergesetz et al.