WEEK 3 Assignment – Questions: 7-7) Active income is income received by the taxpayer directly from the taxpayer’s efforts or services. For example, salary, wages, and commissions. Passive Income is income received usually on a regular basis with little to no effort of the taxpayer. There are only two sources of passive income, “income from rental activity, and from a business in which the taxpayer does not materially participate. http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=146330,00.html.” Dividends, interest, annuities, and royalties not accumulated through the ordinary course of trade or business is Portfolio income, not passive income.
[pic] SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, FINANCE & MARKETING MASTER OF FINANCE BAFI 1065 MONEY MARKETS AND FIXED INCOME SECURITIES Supplementary Course Information Semester 1, 2014 Melbourne Yoni Navon (Lecturer) Email: yonatan.navon@rmit.edu.au Course coordinator: Dr Larry Li Email: larry.li@rmit.edu.au Times and locations: Wednesday: 5:30 PM, 80.07.007 Friday: 4:30 PM, 80.05.012 You are requested to ensure that you are correctly enrolled in this course by checking that it appears on your enrolment confirmation. If the course code does not appear, you will not have a result recorded for this course. Please see your Program Administrator at once if you are not correctly enrolled in this course. [pic] ECONOMICS, FINANCE & MARKETING Master of Finance BAFI 1065 Money Markets and Fixed Income Securities Supplementary Course Information Semester 1, 2014 Welcome Welcome to BAFI1065, Money Markets and Fixed Income Securities. In this course you will be introduced to the money market and the fixed income security market.
Also, based on Target’s income statements, Target doesn’t have any revenues or expenses non-recurring in nature. Due to no change in accounting policy and no nonrecurring income items, Target doesn’t have much restated financials except certain reclassified amounts in prior years, which, however, can be negligible and doesn’t affect our analysis for comparability purpose. Target operates in three business segments: U.S. Retail, U.S. Credit Card, and Canadian. Target discloses detailed qualitative and quantitative information regarding these three segments in its report. Majority of Target’s current revenues are from its retail business in U.S. For the past several years, the retail sales amount and EBIT in retail segment increase steadily, and maintain a stable EBIT margin rate of around 7% each year.
Annual Report for eBay Inc. Year Ending 2011 Shaun Evan Wright ACC 100: Accounting Professor Howard Katz Strayer University March 2013 Introduction With any company, you have an annual report. An annual report is a document that identifies and communicates to different investors and other people concerned about that company’s financial status. The annual report takes a look at the company’s financial earnings, assets, controls and procedures, quantitative and qualitative disclosures, etc. In this paper, that I am writing, we will explore and gather information from a very reputable and known company known as eBay Inc. I will be using their annual report from 2011, and explain the main sections of the report, discuss key factors that helped influence the company’s financial performance for the year stated above, the company’s assets, and we will also explain how management characterizes the internal control environment.
* Unanticipated changes – Expected price will not change. For example, if workers do not expect the increase in price, there will be an increase in output. Lucas model predicts that neither monetary nor fiscal policy can affect the equilibrium level of income in the long run. There might be transitory deviations but they are the result of expectations errors and they last only as long as the errors last which is not very long since households and firms will revise their forecasts. RANDOM WALK OF GDP Transitory fluctuations are caused by shocks to aggregate demand while permanent fluctuations are caused by aggregate supply.
According to "Accrual" (2012),” Cash-basis accounting does not recognize promise to pay or expectations to receive money or service in the future, such as payables, receivables, and prepaid expenses”. Cash basis accounting is a simple and inexpensive method to implement and utilize. Small business owners without a strong accounting background often use cash basis accounting. Even though, both cash basis accounting and accrual basis accounting are approved accounting methods for tax purposes, only accrual basis accounting is generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Generally accepted accounting principles requires certain companies to use the accrual basis accounting to
* Question 1 Your answer is correct. The following defined pension data of Rydell Corp. apply to the year 2012. Projected benefit obligation, 1/1/12 (before amendment) $566,400 Plan assets, 1/1/12 545,900 Pension liability 20,500 On January 1, 2012, Rydell Corp., through plan amendment, grants prior service benefits having a present value of 121,900 Settlement rate 9 % Service cost 58,500 Contributions (funding) 66,900 Actual (expected) return on plan assets 60,300 Benefits paid to retirees 40,200 Prior service cost amortization for 2012 20,800 For 2012, prepare a pension worksheet for Rydell Corp. that shows the journal entry for pension expense and the year-end balances in the related pension accounts.
My analysis will be primarily based upon the company's most recent 3 years annual and quarterly SEC filings, and will be comprised of calculations of financial ratios for cash flows and profitability, as well as, forecast performance measures of earnings, analysts' reports and related articles. The decision to invest or not invest will be based upon and supported by this analysis. The company I have chosen for my analysis, IPG Photonics Corporation ,went public in 2006 and is listed on the NASDAQ represented by ticker symbol IPGP. IPG is currently headquartered in Oxford, Massachusetts, but was originally founded in Russia in 1990 by physicist Valentin P. Gapontsev, Ph. D., as a small optics company (Wikipedia, 2013).
a. b. What is the minimum level of synergies for Vodafone shareholders to at least break even on the deal? Estimate the market’s assessment on December 17, 1999 about the likelihood that the deal will succeed. To do so, construct a merger arbitrage position where you buy one Mannesmann share (at the price prevailing on December 17, 1999) and sell short 53.7 Vodafone shares. Assume that the deal finalizes in 3 months time and a risk—free interest rate of 5.5%.
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