Outline three ways in which a medium-sized private company may benefit from going public, providing a rationale for each.

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Overview
Assume that you are a CEO of a medium-sized company that needs a significant influx of cash for several expansion projects. As the CEO, you must determine whether your company should remain private or go public. Some companies postpone going public due to the unpredictability of economic and market conditions. Consider the ramifications of both alternatives. Construct an argument for and against going public. Before providing your response, review the guidelines and regulations associated with going public by reading Information for Small Businesses.
Use the Internet to research Sarbanes Oxley Act—Summary of Key Provisions.
Instructions
Write a 4 page paper in which you:
1. Outline three ways in which a medium-sized private company may benefit from going public, providing a rationale for each.
2. Create an argument that the same goals may be achieved if the company remains a privately held entity. Provide support for the argument.
3. Suggest four leading financial ratios that will be evaluated and how each will affect the company’s decision to obtain expansion funds. Determine whether the results of the ratios would alter the decision to go public.
4. By researching the results of SOX compliance surveys, assess the financial effect that SOX might have on a company if it decides to go public. Considering the impact of SOX compliance, take a position as to whether your company can overcome the challenges posed by SOX compliance if the decision is to go public. Based on research, support the decision by identifying the potential advantages and disadvantages that SOX may have on the company. Provide specific examples.
5. Make a recommendation as the CEO regarding the alternative (i.e., going public or staying private) that will best support the company’s expansion goals. Support the position.
6. Use at least four quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Prepare the monthly bank reconciliation.

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Natalie is struggling to keep up with the recording of her accounting transactions. She is spending a lot of time marketing and selling mixers and giving her cookie classes. Her friend John is an accounting student who runs his own accounting service. He has asked Natalie if she would like to have him do her accounting.
John and Natalie meet and discuss her business. John suggests that he do the tasks listed below for Natalie.
Hold cash until there is enough to be deposited. (He would keep the cash locked up in his vehicle). He would also take all of the deposits to the bank at least twice a month.
Write and sign all of the checks.
Record all of the deposits in the accounting records.
Record all of the checks in the accounting records.
Prepare the monthly bank reconciliation.
Transfer all of Natalie’s manual accounting records to his computer accounting program. (John would maintain all of the accounting information that he keeps for his clients on his laptop computer.)
Prepare monthly financial statements for Natalie to review.
Write himself a check every month for the work he has done for Natalie.
For Part I of the assignment, identify the weaknesses in internal control that you see in the system that John is recommending. Can you suggest any improvements if Natalie hires John to do the accounting?
Part I should be a minimum of two pages in length. Please use APA format. While there are no required resources, please be sure that any sources used have proper citations.

How big data and blockchain can contribute to the pandemic COVID-19.

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The most important parts are;

  • For the most important requirement is that you require to have at least 8 different sources.
  • Sources MUST be a scholarly peer-reviewed academic journal.

You can use 8 resources from what I’ve found, as you can see the attached files. Or you can find more relevant sources based on your own process. Please check the requirement for the sources above.

The structure of the paper should be following;

Research Question: Emerging Technologies (Big data and Blockchain) in Accounting and Its Potential in Pandemic

Introduction

Body 1: Big Data

  • Overview
  • Benefits
  • Limitations

Body 2: Blockchain

  • Overview
  • Benefits
  • Limitations

Body 3: Potential contributions to the pandemic

  • How big data and blockchain can contribute to the pandemic COVID-19. What nature or benefit helps to achieve this? It is important to combine body 1 and 2 to reach the contribution of them in pandemic!

Conclusion

In addition, if you think you can entirely focus on Big data and its analysis, you CAN change the structure of body (Just body 1 & 3). However, body 3 is still required (Big data’s potential contribution to pandemic). In addition, in that case, you must include more detailed information or assertion about it.

This is general information about each part.

Introduction

The introduction is a key element of a literature review. It should identify the topic and its narrowed scope, explain the importance of the topic to your field specifically (keep your target audience in mind), comment on the extent and nature of the sources in the review, and address the purpose of the review (the thesis).  Toward the end of the introduction, you may choose to identify the organization you will use, such as major topics and subtopics.

Since the introduction to a literature review has a great deal to accomplish at the outset, it may take several paragraphs.

Body

In the body of the literature review is where you will draft your research narrative. This is usually sub-divided using subheadings to indicate how you are organizing your sources. Using my example above, I might have subheadings that read “K-12 Educator Use of Technology in the Classroom” and “Undergraduate Educator Use of Technology in the Classroom,” etc. These subheadings make your organizing logic clear and help with readability of the document.

Within each section of your literature review body, there should be substantive commentary on the sources in that section. Here you want to avoid “simple” summary and include “critical” summary along with paraphrase and quotations of your sources. This is where you use the skill of synthesis (see our module) and take care to give your sources proper attribution to avoid plagiarizing.What information you pull out from each of your sources is up to you, but it should be clear why that information is relevant to your wider topic. It should also be framed in a critical manner. For instance, instead of saying something like, “Using computers in a K-12 classroom is essential for digital literacy,” you should have sentences which read more like, “Azar et al (2010) argues that having computers in the K-12 classroom is essential for digital literacy; however, Grawl and Constantine (2012) demonstrate the limitations of merely having technology available in the institution for full digital literacy. Both sources neglect to consider how often students have access outside to computers outside of the home.”

Conclusion

The conclusion should revisit your key purpose in writing the literature review and end with your recommendations for future research on this topic. NOTE: Your recommendations for future research should be specific and detailed (as in, something you might do yourself in your studies) and use proposal-style language (persuasive language) to “pitch” your ideas for future research to the reader.

 

Prepare a brief memo to Dunn from Green that identifies the objectives of accounting for income taxes, defines temporary differences, explains how to measure deferred tax assets and liabilities

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LO 18.2 AICPA Adapted Chris Green, CPA, is auditing Rayne Co.’s 2016 financial statements. For the year ended December 31, 2016, Rayne is applying GAAP for income taxes. Rayne’s controller, Dunn, has prepared a schedule of all differences between financial statement and income tax return income. Dunn believes that as a result of pending legislation, the enacted tax rate on December 31, 2016, will be increased for 2017. Dunn is uncertain which differences to include and which rates to apply in computing deferred taxes. Dunn has requested an overview of GAAP from Green.

Required: Prepare a brief memo to Dunn from Green that identifies the objectives of accounting for income taxes, defines temporary differences, explains how to measure deferred tax assets and liabilities, and explains how to measure deferred income tax expense or benefit.

Discuss two audit risks that are applicable to Afterpay.

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  1. Discuss two audit risks that are applicable to Afterpay.

Note:   Audit risks refer to possible scenarios that auditors issue an inappropriate opinion.

 

Audit risk 1:

 

Audit risk 2:

 

  1. Design the audit procedures that you would undertake to complete the audit to minimise the audit risks you have identified in a).

 

describe the steps required to account for the error correction.

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500 words, APA 7th edition

Some inventory errors are said to be self-correcting in that the error has the opposite financial statement in the period following the error, thereby correcting the original account balance error.

Despite this self-correcting features, discuss why these errors should not be ignored and describe the steps required to account for the error correction.

Briefly review the three basic financial statements and the type of information that each statement provides.

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Briefly review the three basic financial statements and the type of information that each statement provides. In your opinion, which statement is the most instructive regarding organizational financial health? In a similar vein, which financial ratio(s) provide the most insight into financial viability?

What is the ‘Digital Age’?

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Background;

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is an age when the potential for technological advancement has become unlimited. The rate of change will be faster than ever before, and the transformation will be unlike anything that human kind has ever experienced.

According to Schwab (2016), nearly all the innovations and advances coming with the Fourth Industrial Revolution tide are made possible and enhanced through digital power.

  • What is the ‘Digital Age’?
  • How might the ‘Digital Age’ impact the way in which Management Accountants provide their services?

Explain the different categories of intangible assets and document the method used for each of the three companies.

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Write a five- to seven-page comparative financial statement analysis of the three companies listed below, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. In this analysis, you will discuss the financial health of these companies with the ultimate goal of making a recommendation to other investors. Your paper should consist of the following sections: Company Overview, Comparison of Accounting Methods, Ratio Analysis, Final Recommendation, Conclusions. You will also submit an appendix as a separate document. Additional research may be necessary to provide company background information, or to support your analysis and recommendations. Your paper needs to include a minimum of two scholarly, peer-reviewed, and/or credible resources in addition to the textbook as references.
Download the Form 10-K for each company.
The Coca-Cola Company: Form 10-K (Links to an external site.) – Financial statements and notes start on page 60.
Accounts receivable, page 81
Inventories, page 82
Depreciation, page 96
Goodwill, page 83
Keurig Dr Pepper Annual Report (Links to an external site.)
Click on the 2018 Annual Report
Accounts receivable, page 72
Inventories, page 72
Depreciation, page 73
Goodwill, page 74
PepsiCo Annual Report (Links to an external site.) – Financial statements and notes start on page 79.
Accounts receivable, page 124
Inventories, page 89
Depreciation, page 95
Goodwill, page 88
Here is a breakdown of the sections within the body of the assignment (Use paragraph headings to indicate each section):
Company Overview
Provide a brief overview of the three companies (at least two pages). What industry is it in? What are its main products or services? Who are its competitors? Where is the company located?
Ratio Analysis
Calculate the current ratio, quick ratio, gross profit percentage, inventory turnover, accounts receivable turnover and asset turnover ratios for all three companies for the current year.
Note: Cash includes cash and cash equivalents and short term investments.
Explain how the ratio is calculated and discuss and interpret the ratios that you calculated.
Discuss potential liquidity issues based on your calculations of the current and quick ratios.
Are there any factors that could be erroneously influencing the results of the ratios?
Discuss liquidity issues of the three companies.
Comparison of Accounting Methods

In your paper, ascertain from the notes of the financial statements the following:
Explain the difference between the allowance method and the direct write off method for accounts receivable. Document the method used for each of the three companies.
Explain the difference between the straight line, double declining balance and the unit-of-production depreciation methods. Document the method used for each of the three companies.
Explain the difference between LIFO and FIFO and document the method used for each of the three companies.
Explain the different categories of intangible assets and document the method used for each of the three companies.
Recommendation
Based on your analysis, would you recommend an individual invest in these companies? What strengths do you see? What risks do you see? It is perfectly acceptable to state that you would recommend avoiding this company, as long as you provide support for your position.
Conclusions

By what percentage would these new stores increase the size of the company?

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Prior to beginning work on this discussion, please read the article by Hayley Peterson, 15 Companies That Are Defying the Retail Meltdown by Opening Hundreds of New Stores (Links to an external site.).

While many retailers are closing stores, some are rapidly building new locations, with at least one—Dollar General (NYSE: DG)—adding as many as 900 stores this year (Peterson, 2018).

Obtain Dollar General’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2017. Form 10-K can be obtained either from the SEC (Links to an external site.)’s EDGAR Filing system or the “Investor Relations” link on the company’s website at www.dollargeneral.com (Links to an external site.). Read the “Growth Strategies” and the “Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows” sections of Dollar General’s 10-K Form to answer the following questions in an initial post of at least 200 words:

How many stores is Dollar General planning to open during its 2018 and 2019 fiscal years? By what percentage would these new stores increase the size of the company?
How much cash did General Dollar spend on investing activities during its 2016, 2017, and 2018 fiscal years? Do you think the amount spent on investing activities represents the full costs that General Dollar incurred to open new stores? Explain you answer.
Where did General Dollar get the cash used to make these investments?