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Place yourself in the role of one of the following stakeholders in a company: an investor, a creditor, or a manager. Summarize the information you would look for on each of the four basic financial statements, and explain why that information is pertinent to you. Include answers to two of the four questions below in your summary:

Why is the balance sheet important in order to understand the financial condition of the organization?

What types of accounts are found in the balance sheet, and how are the accounts arranged and grouped?

What types of business transactions add to the balances in each grouping of accounts on the balance sheet?

What types of information may users of the balance sheet discern by properly analyzing it?

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The Balance Sheet Resources scoring guide icon Discussion Participation Scoring Guide. Place yourself in the role of one of the following stakeholders in a company: an investor, a creditor, or a manager. Summarize the information you would look for on each of the four basic financial statements, and explain why that information is pertinent to you. Include answers to two of the four questions below in your summary: •Why is the balance sheet important in order to understand the financial condition of the organization? •What types of accounts are found in the balance sheet, and how are the accounts arranged and grouped? •What types of business transactions add to the balances in each grouping of accounts on the balance sheet? •What types of information may users of the balance sheet discern by properly analyzing it? Post your answers in this discussion, then proceed to the response guidelines. Response Guidelines Respond to at least two other learners who assumed a role other than the one you took on for this discussion. Compare and contrast the way someone in their roles would use the financial statements to the way you in your role would use them.

An organization’s finances are closely linked to local and global markets. Therefore, regular monitoring of economic factors, such as employment, inflation, supply and demand, and interest rates is sure to provide beneficial information. Therefore, it is important to understand the impact of economic factors upon an organization’s current and future operations and finances.

Using the module readings, Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research two to three articles on the importance of analyzing economic factors for organizations.

Then respond to the following:

Why should companies pay attention to economic factors when managing the organization’s current and future financial information?

Consider an organization you are familiar with. Identify the economic factor that has had the most impact on the organization’s earnings in the past 5 years.

How has this factor impacted the organization and how has the organization dealt with the impact in a positive or negative manner?

Please put the following income statement and balance sheet terms in the proper order:

Taxes, interest, gross profit, selling, general and administrative expenses, sales, depreciation, net income, cost of goods sold, and EBITDA.

For the balance sheet, please categorize the following as short-term assets, long-term assets, short-term liabilities, long-term liabilities, or owner’s equity:

Cash, accounts payable, accruals, property, plant and equipment, inventory, accounts receivables, paid in capital, retained earnings, notes payable, mortgage, and accounts payable.

Please explain in which order the four major financial statements need to be prepared, and why.

Please also explain the three major categories of the statement of cash flows and under which category the following items belong. Also explain whether or not each item would be considered a source or use of cash for the period in question:

Inventory-increased for period
Net income-increased for period
Accounts receivables increase for period
Accounts payable decrease for period
Accruals decrease for period
Depreciation-increases for period
Stock issued
Property purchased
Bonds paid off
Inventories increase for period
Cash decreases
Notes payable increase for period
Bonds redeemed for period

Hello, I am having trouble with m finance homework. I have listened to all of he online lectures and I am still not sure what to do. Below I have attchaed my homework asssignment, hoping you could help me with some of it. Thanks in advance!

1. (6 points possible) The value of a firm equals current (present) value of expected (future) cash flows based on the return demanded by investors which is dependent on the risk associated with the firm. Give some firm factors/considerations that impact net cash flows and some investor factors/considerations that impact rate of return. 2. (6 points possible) The Chief Financial Officer’s (CFO) key subordinates are the Treasurer and the Controller. Compare and contrast their roles. 3. (6 points possible) Define the “agency relationship” and the “agency problem”. Give some possible mechanisms used by large corporations to motivate managers to act in the shareholders’ best interest. 4. (6 points possible) Identify three major forms of business organization in the United States and give two advantages and two disadvantages of each. 5. (6 points possible) Discuss some potential problems associated with financial statement analysis. 6. (6 points possible) Explain the DuPont Identity as it relates to Volume, Margin and Leverage and Shareholder Return. 7. (6 points possible) Explain the difference between net income, or accounting profit and net cash flow. Why do these numbers generally differ? 8. (9 points possible) Billingsworth Company had earnings per share of $4 last year and it paid a $2 dividend. Total retained earnings increased by $12 million during the year, and the book value per share at year-end was $40. Billingsworth has no preferred stock, and no new common stock was issued during the year. If the company’s year-end debt (which equals its total liabilities) was $120 million, what was its year-end debt/assets ratio? 9. (9 points possible) Complete the balance sheet and sales information in the table that follows for Iceberg Industries using the following financial data: Debt ratio: 50% Quick ratio: .80x Total assets turnover: 1.5x Days sales outstanding: 36.0 days Gross profit margin on sales: (Sales – Cost of goods sold)/Sales = 25% Inventory turnover ratio: 5.0x Balance Sheet: Cash ________________ Accounts payable _______________ Account receivable ________________ Long-term debt $60,000 Inventories ________________ Common stock ______________ Fixed Assets ________________ Retained earnings $97,500 Total Assets $300,000 Total liabilities and equity ______________ Sales ________________ Cost of goods sold ___

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