Balance Sheet Essays (Examples)

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Globalization Of Insurance

Pages: 8 (2325 words) Sources: 8 Document Type:Term Paper Document #:88593479

… consistent and relevant way to practice accounting: the problem with historical cost accounting is that it does not allow one to inflate one’s balance sheet. Fair value accounting allows companies to create impressive balance sheet when the times are good and the market is moving in their favor. It is when the market turns against them that things ……

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Egan, M. (2018). Tax cut triggers $437 billion explosion of stock buybacks. Retrieved from  https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/10/investing/stock-buybacks-record-tax-cuts/index.html 

Flegm, E. H. (2008). The Need for Reliability in Accounting. Why historical cost is more reliable than fair value. Journal of Accountancy, 205(5), 34.

Healy, P. M., Palepu, K., & Serafeim, G. (2009). Subprime Crisis and Fair-Value Accounting. HBS Case, (109-031).

Laux, C., & Leuz, C. (2010). Did fair-value accounting contribute to the financial crisis?. Journal of economic perspectives, 24(1), 93-118.

Light, L. (2019). More than Half of All Stock Buybacks are Now Financed by Debt. Here’s Why That’s a Problem. Retrieved from  https://fortune.com/2019/08/20/stock-buybacks-debt-financed/ 

Reda, J. (2018). How Stock Buybacks Can Affect Executive Compensation. Retrieved from  http://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2018/08/03/how-stock-buybacks-can-affect-executive-compensation/ 

Young, M. R., (2008). Both sides make good points. Journal of Accountancy, 205(5), 34.

Vaughan, E. J., & Vaughan T. M., (2013). Fundamentals of Risk and Insurance, 11th Edition.

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How Amazon Hedges Its Forex Risk

Pages: 8 (2549 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Essay Document #:96070504

… examine what foreign currency exchange rate risks Amazon faces, and what tactics it undertakes to mitigate these risks on its income statement and balance sheet.
Introduction
Amazon has online retail operations in 58 countries around the world, and these are typically priced in local currency. This has implications … foreign exchange rate risk – the numbers are pretty big but are a very small component of the company’s overall income statement and balance……

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Amazon 2019 Annual Report. Retrieved April 29, 2020 from  https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_financials/2020/ar/2019-Annual-Report.pdf 

HowMuch.net (2019) Charting the most powerful reserve currencies in the world. HowMuch.net. Retrieved April 29, 2020 from  https://howmuch.net/articles/worlds-top-reserve-currencies-2019 

Mehta, N., Detroja, P. & Agashe, A. (2018) Amazon changes prices on its products about every 10 minutes – here’s how and why they do it. Business Insider. Retrieved April 29, 2020 from  https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-price-changes-2018-8 

Reiff, N. (2020) Hedge. Investopedia. Retrieved April 29, 2020 from  https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hedge.asp 

Roamy (2019) The consequences of Amazon’s pricing power. Medium.com. Retrieved April 29, 2020 from  https://medium.com/goods-services/https-medium-com-goods-services-amazons-pricing-power-797e28b63fbd 

Statista (2019) Annual net sales of Amazon in selected leading markets from 2014 to 2019. Statista. Retrieved April 29, 2020 from  https://www.statista.com/statistics/672782/net-sales-of-amazon-leading-markets/ 

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Capital Structure Analysis

Pages: 7 (2210 words) Sources: 10 Document Type:Essay Document #:91296274

… capital structure as discussed below.

Trade-off Theory

This theory suggests that managers should choose a mix of debt and equity that achieves a balance between the tax advantages of the debt and the various costs of using financial leverage. Costs of debt include agency costs, bankruptcy costs, ……

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Estimating a synthetic rating and cost of debt. (n.d.). Retrieved from  http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/valquestions/syntrating.htm 

Fenebris.com. (2019, August 18). AU. Retrieved from http://www.market-risk-premia.com/au.htmlm

Intelligent Investor. (n.d.). FlexiGroup Limited. Retrieved from  https://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/shares/asx-fxl/flexigroup-limited/financials  IntelligentInvestor.com. (n.d.). Afterpay Touch Group Limited. Retrieved from  https://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/shares/asx-apt/afterpay-touch-group-limited/financials 

Yahoo Finance. (n.d.). FLEXIGROUP FPO (FXL.AX) Balance Sheet. Retrieved from  https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FXL.AX/balance-sheet?p=FXL.AXhttps://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FXL.AX/balance-sheet?p=FXL.AX 

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Twitter External Internal Analysis Report To CEO

Pages: 15 (4857 words) Sources: 1 Document Type:Essay Document #:23822356

...Balance sheet Appendix
External Analysis
1. PESTEL Analysis
1.1. Political
1.1.1.Global leaders use of social media impacts the political landscape and is able to influence operations. (C-142)
1.1.2. Several high-profile world leaders utilize social media platforms to address their followers, the most notable being U.S. President Donald Trump who tweets regularly to announce global interactions with other political leaders. They also have high interactions and reach with the global community: U.S President Donald Trump had 30.13 million twitter followers as at May 2017 and former U.S. President Barack Obama had 103 million followers as at June 2018 (C-142)
1.1.3. Depending on the political climate in various countries, governments may censor content and access to social media platforms.
1.2. Economics
1.2.1. Generated revenues through advertising, data licensing and other products. products. In 2017, total revenue generated was $2,443, 299, 000 (C-142)
1.2.2. Fluctuating exchange rates and inflation rates can affect overall profit-margins. (C-147)……

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Thompson, Arthur A.,. (2015). Crafting and Executing Strategy: Concepts and Readings..New York: McGraw-Hill Education, (pp. 138-148)

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Starbucks

Pages: 8 (2288 words) Sources: 7 Document Type:financial analysis Document #:63475461

… CEO Howard Schultz, who had left the company but then returned in order to bring it back to growth (The Coffee Brewers, 2008).
balance sheet
Decisions regarding the financing of this steady growth should be reflected on the company’s balance sheet. At the end of the 1998 fiscal year, Starbucks had just under $1 billion in total assets, about one-third of which were current ……

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Cannivet, M. (2019) Starbucks’ big stock buyback limits future upside. Forbes. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from  https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelcannivet/2019/08/29/starbucks-big-stock-buyback-limits-future-upside/#26c434067047 

Hawley, J. (2019) Who are Starbucks’ main competitors? Investopedia. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from  https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/101315/who-are-starbucks-main-competitors.asp 

Macrotrends (2019) Starbucks. Macrotrends.com. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from  https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SBUX/starbucks/financial-statements 

Marketwatch (2019) McDonalds Marketwatch. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/mcd/financials

Sharf, S. (2013) Starbucks ordered to pay Kraft $2.8 billion. Forbes. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from  https://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthasharf/2013/11/12/starbucks-ordered-to-pay-kraft-2-8-billion/#5516b7fa167d 

Starbucks 1999 Annual Report. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from  https://s22.q4cdn.com/869488222/files/doc_financials/annual/1999/102640_financials2_99.pdf 

The Coffee Brewers (2008) With Starbucks closing 600 shops, is the coffee business still lucrative? The Coffee Brewers. Retrieved October 4, 2019 from  https://www.thecoffeebrewers.com/starbucks.html 

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Is Netflix A Good Investment

Pages: 1 (326 words) Sources: 2 Document Type:Essay Document #:96491919

… of steep increases in infrastructure costs, but Netflix has also seen a sharp increase in profits, and this is reflected on the company’s balance sheet. Netflix has seen its cash position more than double in the past couple of years, and its stockholder equity has doubled, as a … result of the sharp increase in the company’s profits. While Netflix has taken on more debt in order to fuel this growth, its balance sheet is quite healthy. Long term debt was $6.5 billion at the end of 2017 and was $14.7 billion two years later. However, the ……

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Papa Johns Strategic Analysis

Pages: 7 (2158 words) Sources: 9 Document Type:Essay Document #:51025972

...Balance sheet Papa John’s is the fourth-largest pizza chain in the US, and 20th-largest quick service restaurant overall (QSR, 2018). Its total revenues for 2018 were $1.573 billion, with net income of $1.64 million, according to the company’s latest 10-K. In terms of sales per unit, QSR Magazine (2018) lists Papa John’s with $968,000, higher than Little Caesar’s and Pizza Hut, but lower than Domino’s. The company has over 3300 units in total. According to the company’s website, it has over 5000 locations total, in 45 countries. Founded in 1985 in Jeffersonville, IN, the company began franchising the next year, and has grown steadily since then, although there was a decline in the number of stores in 2017 (QSR, 2018).
According to IBIS World, the pizza industry in the US is worth $47 billion, which gives Papa John’s a 3.3% share. The largest competitor, Domino’s, has a 12.5% share, so there is……

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Halzack, S. (2018) Papa John’s just went from bad to worse. BNN Bloomberg. Retrieved April 7, 2019 from https://www.bnnbloomberg.com/papa-john-s-just-went-from-bad-to-worse-1.1120265

IBIS World (2019) Pizza restaurants industry in the US. IBIS World. Retrieved April 7, 2019 from  https://www.ibisworld.com/industry-trends/specialized-market-research-reports/consumer-goods-services/food-service-drinking-places/pizza-restaurants.html 

Kenton, W. (2019) Porter’s 5 forces. Investopedia. Retrieved April 7, 2019 from  https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/porter.asp 

McCormick, M. (2018) Key success factors in a pizza business. Houston Chronicle. Retrieved April 7, 2019 from  https://smallbusiness.chron.com/key-success-factors-pizza-business-2788.html 

Navellier, L. (2009) Papa John’s – how to beat the recession with pizza. NASDAQ. Retrieved April 7, 2019 from https://www.nasdaq.com/personal-finance/papa-johns-PZZA.stm

Papa John’s Form 10-K 2018. Retrieved April 7, 2019 from  https://ir.papajohns.com/static-files/2977c391-0218-4bac-8eb2-dcabd4561cfe 

Papa John’s website, various pages. (2019) Retrieved April 7, 2019 from  https://www.papajohns.com/company/about-papa-johns.html 

QSR (2018) The QSR Top 50. QSR Magazine. Retrieved April 7, 2019 from  https://www.qsrmagazine.com/content/qsr50-2018-top-50-chart

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Motivation

Pages: 4 (1230 words) Sources: 4 Document Type:Case Study Document #:69370752

...Balance sheet Problem with Extrinsic Motivation and How Maslow's Theory Can Help
Introduction
Tesla has been identified as a company that struggles with employee motivation under CEO Elon Musk, who has attempted to push his employees to outperform in order to meet production targets (James, 2019). Rather than using intrinsic motivation to compel employees to self-actualize and reach their fullest and maximum levels of potential, Musk uses extrinsic motivation—which only takes one so far before the trade-off between excessive labor and long hours fails to seem worth it to employees (James, 2019). As Gerhart and Fang (2015) explain, pay, benefits and bonuses are extrinsic motivators that companies use to push employees to meet targets. However, at some point employees will conduct a cost-benefit analysis of their own and determine whether the additional labor and longer hours are worth the extra benefits or bonuses. The reliance by the company upon extrinsic motivators hits……

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Automotive News. (2019). Tesla burning through execs like cash. Retrieved from  https://www.autonews.com/executives/tesla-burning-through-execs-cash 

Gerhart, B., & Fang, M. (2015). Pay, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, performance, and creativity in the workplace: Revisiting long-held beliefs. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 2, 489-521

James, G. (2019). Elon Musk Ain't All that Great at Motivating Employees. Retrieved from  https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/elon-musk-ant-all-that-great-at-motivating-employees.html 

Maslow, A. H. (1943). A theory of human motivation. Psychological Review, 50(4), 370.

Wong, C. (2018). Tesla workers say they pay the price for Elon Musk's big promises. Retrieved from  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/13/tesla-workers-pay-price-elon-musk-failed-promises 

Youssef-Morgan, C. & Noon, A. (2017). Industrial/Organizational psychology (2nd ed.). Retrieved from  https://content.ashford.edu/  " target="_blank" REL="NOFOLLOW">

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Twitter Financial Statements Analysis

Pages: 2 (648 words) Document Type:Essay Document #:39851706

… Can the company raise capital?
Twitter has the ability to raise capital. It is rapidly growing, has strong cash inflows, and a healthy balance sheet. This gives Twitter the flexibility to raise debt capital, because its liquidity will attract investors, and furthermore Twitter’s increasing financial stability reflects a ……

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Statista (2019) Social networking ad revenue market share of LinkedIn in the United States from 2015 to 2018. Statista. Retrieved March 20, 2020 from  https://www.statista.com/statistics/241815/market-share-of-linkedins-us-social-network-ad-revenue/ 

Yahoo! Finance, various pages (2020).

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