Lay good ground work during the year in your accounting practices and your year end should take no time at all.
Huabao was one of several Chinese companies singled out by short sellers over the past year for accounting issues.
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This year, however, we estimate iPhone sales to grow at less than 45% for the full year despite accounting for what we think will be a strong Q4.
Citing questions over the accounting, Forbes last year took Islamic Relief and Seattle-area Crista Ministries off its largest-charities list, which is assembled on the basis of the amount of private donations received in the latest fiscal year.
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Labrador Retrievers got into the most trouble last year, accounting for nearly 14, 000 calls to the APCC.
The IGT 2010 proxy goes on to say that the Audit Committee conducted a competitive process to select an independent registered public accounting firm for the 2011 fiscal year.
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For the ING fund, the two largest at the end of last year--accounting for 8.6% of the portfolio--were units of Charter Communications, rated a lowly B2 by Moody's Investors Service, and Nextel, also a junk issuer with a Ba2 bank-loan rating.
The company was able to book record accounting profits in FY 2007 (the year ended March 31, 2008), but during the year days inventory increased to 48 days.
At the end of the emission accounting period (usually year-end) each entity with a compliance obligation will need to hold allowances that are at least the same in number as its actual emissions for the period.
The committee was also highly critical of the MoD's accounting procedure, saying that for the fifth successive year the department did not comply with Treasury rules on financial reporting.
Certainly Android has established itself as the largest smartphone operating system, accounting for, by the third quarter of this year, 75% of shipment volumes of smartphones.
Half of the 2 billion tons of coal China burns each year, accounting for two-thirds of the country's energy consumption, feeds industry.
Bank credit extension in the first quarter of this year has slowed, accounting for just under 5% of GDP in the first for loans in Chinese yuan, down from 6.5% of GDP in the first quarter 2010.
And the government introduced tougher accounting standards last year, which require big companies to produce consolidated accounts.
And, in the new financial year, changed accounting rules will oblige banks to carry shares on their books at market value.
The introduction of stricter accounting standards this year means that banks will have to value equities at market, rather than historic, prices when they close their books next March.
At the start of the year when I included Lime in my list, its accounting problems were well known and ongoing.
So what can investors expect this year in the world of accounting?
In December foreclosure inventory increased 9% nationally versus the year before, with Florida accounting for the most new distressed property.
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An accounting change last year raised the liability of unused frequent-flier miles on company balance sheets and gave airlines more incentive to get miles off their books.
Elan, which makes drugs to treat diseases such as Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis, has seen its share price plummet over 90% since the start of last year due to accounting concerns.
That would make it the second-biggest opening of all time, not accounting for inflation, behind only last year's "The Avengers, " also from Disney's Marvel Studios superhero unit.
U.S. travelers are the world's biggest spenders, accounting for some 13 percent of the trillion dollars international tourists spend every year.
Finally, Einhorn picks up on some of the accounting issues that the Musketeers discussed earlier this year.
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Groupon, Zynga and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters are all down at least 75% in the past year, amid doubts about their accounting and prospects.
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Our model, which tracks performance back to 1998, shows 2010 as the most profitable year ever in terms of accounting earnings, economic earnings, and free cash flow.
Envisaged investment in infrastructure declined by 52 per cent to Rs1.0 trillion from Rs2.2 trillion in the previous year, with power and telecom accounting for most of this fall.
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Health spending (unlike that of gadgets and snack) happens to be highly concentrated, with the top 1 percent of spenders each year accounting for more than one quarter of all spending.
Current accounting rules allow retailers that sign certain long-term leases to omit the leased property from their balance sheets. (The basic rule is that omission is acceptable if the lease term is less than 75% of the useful life of the building.) But the Financial Accounting Standards Board may change that next year.
Despite strong tax receipts, the government will balance its books this year thanks only to the sale of oil concessions and some creative accounting.
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