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Category: Financial Acct
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Wed June 25, 2014 Mark Hulbert comments on corporate profitability. We are studying equity in ACCT 3310. Notice how Mark projects corofits which he then translates into stock market performance. Is this valid? Do stocks always reflect corporate performance?
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Monday June 23, 2014 fLULU Chairman Dennis Wilson stepped down amid the sheer pants stumble. Now he wants more control. We focus on equity issues this week. LULU is a good place to start. Here is a recent start up and public company that went from nothing to wild success. Then, as often hapens, a mis…
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Thursday June 12 2014 HEre is one of many links on the new revenue recognition standards
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Thursday June 5, 2014 Students in my ACCT 3312 class, I am not teaching 3311 at the moment, are aware I emphasize the importance of depositing required payroll taxes. I have been meaning to construct a class project on this and really should do that. This article emphasizes the legal liability involved and what…
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Tuesday June 3, 2014 Baker Avenue is a wealth management firm. The minimum investment is $500,000. Here is their latest update. Notice that it is a mix of both fundamental and technical analysis. We are studying financial analysis in ACCT 3314. Intermediate accounting is a study of how financial statements are prepared. We will take…
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Thursday May 29, 2014 The FASB and IASB have issued new revenue recognition standards. Hmm, I feel Spiceland 8e coming as a result. Observations Of perhaps greater import than the Ref Rec standard, notice in this release there is no longer any talk abou tconverging the two groups. I have specualted the SEC will not give up…
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Monday May 19, 2014 RAX Should not be left off the Rack. What happens to a valuable company with an innovative business plan whose stock falls 60% in over a year? You become a take over target, that's what. Rackspace has gotten a lot of big companies interested in its cloud computing model. The fastest…
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Friday May 16, 2016 JC Penny managed to stay open another quarter. Apparently it is a matter of having enough cash, as this article suggests, to stay a mediocre department store. We have visited this topic previously. This is a classic example of why the cash flow statement is the most important, that is what keeps…
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Thursday May 1, 2014 CGMA lists four areas of financial competency. This is the new Chartered Mangement Accountants sponsored by the AICPA.
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Monday April 28, 2014 More cars than ever are coming 'off lease.' Car companies have been offering leases on their products for a much lower monthly payment than if one had bought the car. The car company sells to a lease company. Leases grew in popularity as we came out of the recession. Now those cars…
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