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ACC 230 TUTORIALS Innovation is Our Tradition

• ACC 230 Entire Course (UOP)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.acc230tutorials.com
• ACC 230 Week 1 Checkpoint Financial Statements
• ACC 230 Week 1 DQ 1 and DQ 2
• ACC 230 Week 2 CheckPoint Differentiating
  Depreciation Methods
• ACC 230 Week 2 Assignment Lucent Technologies
  Case
• ACC 230 Week 3 CheckPoint Preparing an Income
  Statement
• ACC 230 Week 3 DQ 1 and DQ 2

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ACC 230 TUTORIALS Innovation is Our Tradition

• ACC 230 Week 1 Checkpoint Financial Statements
  (UOP)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.acc230tutorials.com
• Check Point Assessing Financial Statements
• Resource Ch. 2 of Understanding Financial
  Statements, and Ch. 1 PowerPoint (pp. 1-10,
  1-11, and 1-13)
• Search the Internet for the financial statements
  of your favorite company or your employer. You
  may either locate the corporate Web site for your
  chosen company, or you may select a companys
  financial statements from the EDGAR database at
  http//www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm.
  

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ACC 230 TUTORIALS Innovation is Our Tradition

• ACC 230 Week 1 DQ 1 and DQ 2 (UOP)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.acc230tutorials.com
• Discussion Questions
• Go to the U.S. Securities and Exchange
  Commissions Web site at http//www.sec.gov and
  the Financial Accounting Standards BoardsWeb
  site at http//www.fasb.org. Identify the mission
  and main activities of each organization. Then,
  analyze the similarities and differences between
  the roles of each entity.

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ACC 230 TUTORIALS Innovation is Our Tradition

• ACC 230 Week 2 Assignment Lucent Technologies
  Case (UOP)
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• www.acc230tutorials.com
• Assignment Lucent Technologies Case
• Resource Ch. 2 of Understanding Financial
  Statements
• Read Case 2.1 Lucent Technologies on pp. 79-80
  (Ch. 2) of the text.
• Compose a 500- to 750-word paper that includes
  your answers to questions 2-4 on p. 79 (Ch. 2).

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ACC 230 TUTORIALS Innovation is Our Tradition

• ACC 230 Week 2 CheckPoint Differentiating
  Depreciation Methods (UOP)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.acc230tutorials.com
• Check Point Differentiating Depreciation Methods
• Resource Ch. 2 of Understanding Financial
  Statements
• Compose a 200- to 300-word response to Question
  2.4 on p. 74 (Ch. 2). In addition, include a
  summary of the advantages and disadvantages of
  using different depreciation methods, such as
  straight line versus accelerated.

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ACC 230 TUTORIALS Innovation is Our Tradition

• ACC 230 Week 3 CheckPoint Preparing an Income
  Statement (UOP)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.acc230tutorials.com
• Check Point Preparing an Income Statement
• Resources Ch. 3 of Understanding Financial
  Statements, andmultistep_template.xls
• Complete Problem 3.10 on p. 109 (Ch. 3).
• Use multistep_template.xls to prepare a
  multiple-step income statement.

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ACC 230 TUTORIALS Innovation is Our Tradition

• ACC 230 Week 3 DQ 1 and DQ 2 (UOP)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.acc230tutorials.com
• Discussion Questions
• Post your answer to Problem 3.5 on p. 109 (Ch.
  3). How might the information contained within
  the stockholder equity statement be used for
  management and investor decision-making? Provide
  specific examples of situations in which the
  stockholder equity information might be used.

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• ACC 230 Week 4 Assignment Web Sites Search (UOP)
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• www.acc230tutorials.com
• Assignment Web Sites Search
• Resource Ch. 3 of Understanding Financial
  Statements
• Research Web sites that contain examples of stock
  dividends, stock splits, and reverse splits.
  Yahoo! Finance at http//finance.yahoo.com is a
  helpful starting point for locating these Web
  sites.
• Write a 750- to 1,050-word paper based on your
  findings. Include the following in your paper

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ACC 230 TUTORIALS Innovation is Our Tradition

• ACC 230 Week 4 CheckPoint Analyzing an Income
  Statement (UOP)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.acc230tutorials.com
• Check Point Analyzing an Income Statement
• Resource Ch. 3 of Understanding Financial
  Statements
• Complete Problem 3.16b on p. 111 (Ch. 3).
• Analyze the income statement of Eastman Kodak,
  located at http//wps.prenhall.com/bp_fraser_finan
  cial_8. Select Chapter 1 from the top menu, then
  select Internet Links in the left-hand menu to
  access the income statement.

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• ACC 230 Week 5 CheckPoint Preparing a Statement
  of Cash Flows (UOP)
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• www.acc230tutorials.com
• Check Point Preparing a Statement of Cash Flows
• Resource Ch. 4 of Understanding Financial
  Statements
• Complete Problem 4.5 on p. 141 (Ch. 4). Refer to
  Exhibit 4.1 on p. 118 (Ch. 4) to create your
  statement of cash flows.
• Submit your completed statement of cash flows and
  a 200- to 300-word analysis of the statement.

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ACC 230 TUTORIALS Innovation is Our Tradition

• ACC 230 Week 5 DQ 1 and DQ 2 (UOP)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.acc230tutorials.com
• Discussion Questions
• In what ways does the statement of cash flows
  relate to the balance sheet and income
  statement?Discuss how the statement of cash flows
  is utilized by investors. If you were an investor
  reviewing a statement of cash flows, what section
  might interest you most? Why? Discuss the
  circumstances in which other sections of the
  statement might be important to an investor.

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• ACC 230 Week 6 Assignment Candela Corporation
  Case (UOP)
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• www.acc230tutorials.com
• Assignment Candela Corporation Case
• Resource Ch. 4 of Understanding Financial
  Statements
• Compose a 500- to 750-word paper responding to
  questions 1 and 2 of the Candela Corporation Case
  on p. 146 (Ch. 4).Format your paper according to
  APA standards.Post your paper as an attachment.

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ACC 230 TUTORIALS Innovation is Our Tradition

• ACC 230 Week 6 CheckPoint Analyzing Statements of
  Cash Flows (UOP)
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• www.acc230tutorials.com
• Check Point Analyzing Statements of Cash Flows
• Resource Ch. 4 of Understanding Financial
  Statements
• Complete Research Problem 4.8a on p. 142 (Ch. 4)
  however, choose three companies to compare
  instead of five.
• Post your table in a Microsoft Excel or Word
  document.

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ACC 230 TUTORIALS Innovation is Our Tradition

• ACC 230 Week 7 CheckPoint Findwhat.com Case (UOP)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.acc230tutorials.com
• Check Point Findwhat.com Case
• Resources Ch. 5 of Understanding Financial
  Statements, and Exhibit 5.1 A Checklist for
  Earnings Quality on p. 153 (Ch. 5)
• Compose a 200- to 300-word response to the
  Findwhat.com Case on p. 188 (Ch. 5).
• Refer to the checklist, Exhibit 1, on p. 153 (Ch.
  5) for assistance with identifying quality
  issues.

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ACC 230 TUTORIALS Innovation is Our Tradition

• ACC 230 Week 7 DQ 1 and DQ 2 (UOP)
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• www.acc230tutorials.com
• Post your answer to Study Question 5.2 on p. 180
  (Ch. 5). As you read your classmates responses,
  consider the following scenario If you compared
  two different companies that utilized two
  different valuation methods, how might the
  quality of the results differ? Also, comment on
  the difficulty of making comparisons between two
  firms that use different valuation methods.

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• ACC 230 Week 8 Analyzing Financial Data (UOP)
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• www.acc230tutorials.com
• Check Point Analyzing Financial Data
• Resource Ch. 6 of Understanding Financial
  Statements
• Complete Problem 6.6 on p. 232 (Ch. 6).
• Submit your answers to questions A and B.

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• ACC 230 Week 8 Assignment Presenting to
  Stakeholders (UOP)
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• Assignment Presenting to Stakeholders
• Resource pp. 192-193 (Ch. 6) of Understanding
  Financial Statements
• Read the scenario in Problem 6.9 on p. 234 (Ch.
  6).
• Compose a 350- to 500-word response that includes
  a paragraph about the main ideas of the annual
  report and an explanation of how you might
  present these ideas to stakeholders.

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ACC 230 TUTORIALS Innovation is Our Tradition

• ACC 230 Week 8 CheckPoint Interpreting Financial
  Ratios (UOP)
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• Check Point Interpreting Financial Ratios
• Resource Ch. 6 of Understanding Financial
  Statements
• Complete Problem 6.2 on p. 230 (Ch. 6).
• Submit your answer in 200 to 300words.

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• ACC 230 Week 9 Capstone DQ (UOP)
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• Capstone Discussion Question
• What have you learned in this course about the
  process of analyzing financial statements?

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• ACC 230 Week 9 Final Project Evaluating Financial
  Health (UOP)
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• www.acc230tutorials.com
• Final Project Evaluating Financial Health
• Resources Appendix A, Ch. 1 PowerPoint, and Ch.
  6 of Understanding Financial Statements
• Write a 750- to 1,050-word paper evaluating the
  financial health of a company. Highlight the
  importance of industry comparisons and trends.
• Conduct an industry comparison. In your paper,
  discuss how your companys financial performance
  compares with others in your companys industry.

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