Financial Accounting. The annual report sent to shareholders is a key part of the directors' fulfilling their stewardship function

Financial Accounting. The annual report sent to shareholders is a key part of the directors' fulfilling their stewardship function
Author: Louise Franklin
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 10
Release: 2012-11-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 365630503X

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: A, University of Westminster, course: BSc (Hons) Accounting and Business Management, language: English, abstract: The annual report that a company must send to its shareholders is a key part of the directors’ fulfilling their stewardship function. Explain this to a shareholder who has just received their company’s latest annual report. Areas covered include; •the nature of financial reporting •the function of the four financial statements-statement of comprehensive income, statement of financial position, statement of cash flow and the statement of changes in equity. •the function of the supporting notes, with particular reference to the disclosure of accounting policies and their role within the overall report. •the ways in which financial information provided to shareholders is regulated in the UK with reference to the reasons for the major shifts in the UK regulatory framework in the last twenty years. •effectiveness in maintaining investor’s confidence in published annual reports. •identifying which, in your opinion, has been the most significant development to affect the regulatory framework in recent years. Give reasons.

Understanding Annual Reports

Understanding Annual Reports
Author: William R. Pasewark
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1999-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780072387148

For your introductory financial accounting, intermediate accounting, and financial statement analysis courses, this project contains instructions for obtaining and analyzing an annual report from a publicly traded corporation. It is also suitable for extra projects in honors and MBA classes or for independent study projects.

Annual Reports 101

Annual Reports 101
Author: Michael C. Thomsett
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780814430125

Annual Reports 101 gets past the PR machine to show the meaning behind the spin. This ultra-practical guide shows you how to thoroughly translate and read "between the lines" of the balance sheet, income statement, cash flow report, and the accompanying text. The book helps you get a true sense of the "big picture" behind the company, allowing you to move beyond the numbers themselves and the fluffy, PR-driven copy. Before you know it, you'll have the tools to spot red flags, decipher footnotes, and see past common practices that, while legal, may not give the most accurate picture.

Accounting

Accounting
Author: Michael J. Jones
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 773
Release: 2013-04-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119977185

Accounting 3e provides a very accessible and easy-to-follow introduction to accounting. It is intended as a core textbook for students studying accounting for the first time: either those following an undergarduate degree in a business school, or non-business studies students stuyding an accounting course. This includes students on both accounting and non-accounting degrees and also MBA students. Designed to be both engaging and accessible to the student, Accounting 3e features: A lively presentational style integrating cartoons and soundbites ‘Company Camera’ boxes presenting financial data from a wide variety of international companies, such as Heineken, Nokia and Volkswagen. ‘Real Life Nuggets’ offering contemporary examples from the business press that give the body of the text a real-life resonance. End of chapter questions of escalating difficulty, together with accompanying answers, enabling the student to develop their understanding of the key concepts discussed in the text. A rich supporting website including solutions, extra question material and powerpoint slides for lecturers, multiple choice quizzes and an online glossary for students.

Business Accounting

Business Accounting
Author: Jill Collis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2017-09-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137521503

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to accounting, giving a clear and concise overview of financial accounting, management accounting and financial management. Using international examples, cases and real company data to contextualise the theory, the authors explain the key concepts in a logical fashion, providing students with a theoretical and practical foundation in the subject. In particular, the running case study helps students to keep applying new concepts to a familiar context. The main author, Jill Collis, is an experienced author who has a proven ability to simplify difficult topics and communicate them in a clear and engaging way. This textbook has been developed specifically to provide a comprehensive introduction to accounting for anybody coming to the subject for the first time, either at undergraduate or postgraduate level. New to this Edition: - The important and contemporary topics of ethics, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility are given more prominence in this new edition - A new chapter on the statement of cash flows has been added - The number of questions in the book and online has been increased substantially to provide students with more opportunity to test their understanding and provide lecturers with more materials to perform assessments Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsburyonlineresources.com/business-accounting-3e. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.