Ans > | i) Income Statement Shows how profitable has the firm. | ||||||||
An Income statement shows the totals of a company's revenues and expenses. | |||||||||
It matches all revenues from selling good and services against all expenses - including | |||||||||
interest, depreciation and taxes - required to operate the company over a specific | |||||||||
time period. Theses statements can be prepared monthly, quarterly or annually. | |||||||||
An Income statement has several layers of profitability. | |||||||||
-- Gross Profits | |||||||||
-- Operating profits, or EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization) | |||||||||
-- Net Income | |||||||||
II) Statement of Retained Earnings shows how much of the firms earnings are left as | |||||||||
balance after the firm pays out dividends to its shareholders. | |||||||||
Retained Earnings (RE) are the portion of a business's profits. While it is arrived at through the income statement, the net profit is also used in both the balance sheet and the cash flow statement. that are not distributed as dividends to shareholders but instead are reserved for reinvestment back into the business. | |||||||||
III) If compensation for senior management is based on short term performance | |||||||||
of the firm, in the short run the firm is likely to Overstate its earnings | |||||||||
The firm will likely overstate how they've performed in the short-term as a way of making sure that the compensation and bonuses are attained. This might affect the company long-term, however, when the performance levels out or decreases under prior levels, and the firm then finds itself wondering what led to the decrease (the overstatement of the short-term). | |||||||||
Assignment 03 - Financial Statements, Cash Flow, and Taxes Accountants focus on creating financial statements, whereas...
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