ACC 100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 35 pages long!)

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The activity, buying, or selling goods or providing services in exchange for money. Cardboard factory, frozen food factory: tertiary sector, the retail stores are the tertiary sector, where goods and services are sold to consumers, examples: baby-sitting, cinema and banking. Stakeholders are individual or groups who either affect the business or are affected by the actions of the business. All stakeholders have objectives, something they want from their relationship with the business. External stakeholders are outside of the business and their objectives generally relate to decisions they will make about money ( aka resource allocation decisions). How the business can affect them, either positive or negative way. Earn high wages and keep their jobs. Ensure taxes are minimized and tax laws are followed. Ensure businesses pay taxes, employ more people, follow laws. Buy quality products at low prices, get the best warranties on products or services. Sell products/services to the business, get paid on time and in full.

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Just yesterday I posted a key question as to why the statelottery might hypothetically offer you an upfront lump-sum paymentof $50 million or an ongoing annuity of a $5 million check eachyear for 20 years (totaling $100 million in checks). Remember thatthis was just my simplified hypothetical example. A few peopleattempted the answer to this further above, but here's what'sreally going on...it has to do with Net Present Value (NPV). It'sbecause future-year dollars are worth less, and the further you gointo the future, the less those dollars are worth in terms oftoday's dollars. And that is why, when financial analysts look at adecision involving multi-year cash flows, they will use discountfactors to convert all of the future-year dollars to present value(i.e., this year's dollars) and add them up to yield the NPV of allof the amounts to put a final answer in terms of today's value.Where do these discount factors come from? They're derived from thereciprocal of the famous compound interest formula, but you justneed to go and look at two tables in your textbook in Chapter 12,Appendix 12A, Table A (present value of $1 due in n periods) andTable B (present value of an annuity of $1 per period). Class, Icannot stress to you enough how widely-used this concept is, andthe importance of understanding how these discount factors areapplied to solve for net present value (NPV) and a related metric,internal rate of return (IRR). You will likely need to read, andreread, Chapter 12 and closely walk through some textbook exampleswhere each year's cash flows are multiplied by the appropriatediscount factor to convert all of that money into this year'sdollars (present value). We are surrounded by this financialanalysis methodology when faced with a decision on a lotterypayout, a retirement payout (lump sum versus annuity), and many ofour states and cities right now are dealing with issues relating tothe calculation of NPV in assessing whether they currently haveenough money in the appropriate accounts to meet the futureretirement payment obligations they've made to their publicemployees. This is an economic issue that has been on the brink ofexploding for a long time (don't take my word for it, it's beendiscussed in multiple articles in the NY Times, Wall StreetJournal, The Economist), but I'm not going to add all of that intothis discussion here. Let's learn to walk before we try to run.Would you like to see how the lottery payouts I described would bemultiplied by each year's financial discount factor? Just take alook at my attached Excel workbook, and note that there are threetabs: the first assumed a 0% cost of capital (no financialdiscounting done), the second assumed a 5% cost of capital, and thethird sheet inserted a 10% cost of capital. You'll see how thesedifferent interest rates changed the discount factor multipliersand ultimately changed the NPV of each alternative (the value ofthe lump sum or the annuity, all shown in present value). Also,this example just shows money moving one way (i.e., to the state,it's cash out of their pocket...to the lottery winner, it's cashinto their pocket). In many NPV and IRR examples, money will moveboth ways over multiple years...cash flows that are expenses orinvestments are outflows and are shown as negative, while revenuesor other incoming money are inflows and are shown as positive.Please look closely at my attached Excel workbook (all three tabs)and also walk through all of the examples in the chapter showinghow to do NPV and IRR problems. There are also examples in the textof simpler metrics including payback period and accounting rate ofreturn. It's typically very hard stuff for students to master. Now,for those of you who've looked at the chapter examples, maybeyou've figured this out already:

1. What is the key difference between Tables A and B in Chapter12, Appendix 12A, and how and when are each of them used in ananalysis?

2. What do we mean by âYear 0â in a financial analysis? Whatvalue do we use for the discount factor or multiplier for the cashflow in Year 0 of a financial analysis?

GOOGLE: MorningstarÂ® Document Research FORM 10-K GENERAL MILLS INC - GIS Filed: June 29, 2017 (period: May 28, 2017) Annual report with a comprehensive overview of the companyâ FOR THE ANNUAL REPORT

Instructions: Use the financial statements from the annual report for the year ended 5/28/2017 for General Mills. The Annual Report is on MOODLE. Answer the questions after each question. Use a different font to distinguish your answer from the question. All answers should be in your own words. Do not cut and paste from the annual report. Answers will be graded for content and written communication skills. Use complete sentences.

*****MAKE A NOTATION HERE IF THE DOLLAR AMOUNTS ARE STATED IN MILLIONS.

1. Who are the external auditors for General Mills? What does their Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting firm indicate about the amounts represented in the companyâs financial statements?

2. What specific title does General Mills use for its income statement? What type of income
statement does General Mills issue? (multi-step, singleâstep, or condensed multi-step)
Explain.

3. Did they disclose EPS as discussed in class? Explain. What about the EPS presentation
did we not discuss in ACC 3100?

4. How does General Mills define Cash Equivalents? Is this consistent with the textbook?

5. What is the amount of cash and cash equivalents reported for the year ended at May 28, 2017 and for the year ended at May 29, 2016. By how much has cash and cash equivalents increased/decreased? Show calculations.

6. Create a table illustrating the amount General Mills reports for net cash flows from operating, investing, and financing activities in its statement of cash flow for the year ended May 28, 2017. (Note: Include any effect of exchange rates on cash.) Show calculations. Compare your answers to question 5.

7. What amount is the balance in the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts at 5/28/2017? How is the estimate for Allowance for Doubtful Accounts determined?

8. What was the gross balance of trade receivables at 5/28/2017? What was the dollar amount of bad debt expense for the year ended 5/28/2017? How many accounts were written off (Dollar amount)?

9. What inventory method is used to value inventory in and out of the US?

10. What is the balance of their LIFO reserve account 5/28/2017?

11. What impact (dollar amount and increase or decrease) did the LIFO Reserve adjustment have on Cost of Goods Sold?

12. Which depreciation method(s) is used for PP& E? What estimates are made for the useful life of the different categories of assets?

13. What was total depreciation and amortization expense fiscal year ended 5/28/2017? Where were these amounts reported in the financial statements?

14. What was the major component of total PP&E? What was its amount and what percentage was it of the total for the year ended 5/28/2017?

15. What percentage of total PP&E has been depreciated as of 5/28/2017?

16. Did General Mills capitalize any interest in the fiscal year ended 5/28/2017? If so, what was the amount?

17. Did General Mills dispose of any property and equipment during the year ended 5/28/2017? If so, what was the cash proceeds?

18. Did General Mills issue more new long term debt than they paid in long term debt payments for the year ended 5/28/2017? Explain, show amounts.

19. Create a table to show the components of Comprehensive Income that was attributable to General Mills for the year ending 5/28/2107?

20. Create a table to show the components and amounts of General Millsâ Accumulated Other Comprehensive income(loss) for the year ending 5/28/2017 and 5/29/2016?

21. When does General Mills review impairment for long-lived assets? What is their measurement of an impairment loss based on for long-lived assets?

22. What is the amount of General Mills goodwill? Did General Mills have an impairment loss on Goodwill during fiscal year ended 5/28/2017? What are the standards for testing goodwill(How often and how is it tested)?

23. List any other indefinite life intangibles? How much was the impairment loss General Mills recorded for fiscal year ending 5/31/2015 and why was impairment indicated?

24. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued two new accounting requirements in 2017 that were mentioned in General Millsâ annual report? What are the standards and what is the expected impact of these new standards to the financial statements?

25. General Mills uses the three-level fair value hierarchy for disclosure. What level are the majority of their assets and liabilities measured at 5/28/2017? According to your textbook, how is this level defined?

26. When does General Mills recognize revenue? Do they handle consistently with the material presented in ACC 3100?

27. What was General Millsâ current ratio and working capital as of 5/28/2017? Show calculations.

28. Is the Statement of Changes in Stockholderâs Equity (Consolidated Statements of Total Equity, and Redeemable Interest) consistent with what we learned in class? Explain-indicate similarities and differences.

29. According to the MD&A (begins on p. 15) did General Millsâ Selling, general, and
administration expenses increase or decrease in fiscal year ended 5/28/2017? What was
the primary reason for the change?

30. In two detailed paragraphs, indicate a couple of interesting items you learned while
reading this annual report.

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