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3 years ago

Identify some of the reasons why Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

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TiliK225 [7]3 years ago

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Answer: C) To require public companies to document and verify their internal controls.

Explanation:

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed in the year 2002 and represented an unprecedented increase in influence of the Government on the activities of public companies.

Passed in the aftermath of several financial scandals such as the Enron and Worldcom scandals, SOX as it is usually referred to, aimed to make companies more accountable for their actions by amongst other things, requiring that they document and verify their internal controls and made it the responsibility of senior management to ensure that it was done.

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It is necessary for the teacher to be organized according to the methodologies required by the institutional standard, as standardization generates the systematization of processes so that student learning and development occurs in a similar way, without bias, for example.

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Exercise 5-12 Presented below is the trial balance of Larkspur Corporation at December 31, 2017. Debit Credit Cash $ 200,490 Sal

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2017 Balance Sheet

$1,368,060 TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS

$2,637,630 TOTAL NONCURRENT ASSETS

$4,005,690 TOTAL ASSETS

$792,730 TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES

$1,906,980 TOTAL NONCURRENT LIABILITIES

$2,699,710 TOTAL LIABILITIES

$1,305,980 TOTAL EQUITY

$4,005,690 TOTAL EQUITY + LIABILITIES

Explanation:

Liquidity it's define as the speed of an assets to be converted to cash,

the assets that take less days to buy or to sold are more liquid than others.

Cash it's the assets most liquid then are the Accounts Receivables and Inventories for last, in the middle exist different assets as Equity investments.

Prepaid expenses are not liquid because these accounts doesn't means the company could get cash if not that the company have rights over something.

2017 Balance Sheet

$200,490 Cash

$157,080 Debt Investments

$410,000 Accounts Receivable

$600,490 Inventory

$1,368,060 TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS

$264,080 Land

$604,080 Equipment

-$60,000 Accum Depreciation

$1,043,490 Buildings

-$152,000 Accum Depreciation

$195,000 Patents

$280,490 Equity Investments

$160,000 Other Assets Intangibles

$302,490 Debt Investments

$2,637,630 TOTAL NONCURRENT ASSETS

$4,005,690 TOTAL ASSETS

$459,080 Accounts Payable

$94,080 Notes Payable

$100,080 Accrued Liabilities

$139,490 Dividends Payable

$792,730 TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES

$903,490 Notes Payable

$1,003,490 Bond Payable

$1,906,980 TOTAL NONCURRENT LIABILITIES

$2,699,710 TOTAL LIABILITIES

$1,004,080 Common Stock

-$195,080 Treasury Stocks

$83,490 Paid in Capital

$413,490 Retained Earnings

$1,305,980 TOTAL EQUITY

$4,005,690 TOTAL EQUITY + LIABILITIES

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Sales $8,104,080

Depreciation -$4,800,000

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Adm Expenses -$901,820

Interest Expenses -$212,820

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During its first year of operations, Walnut Company completed the following two transactions. The annual accounting period ends

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