Making Estimates

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• Significant Accounting Estimate

  What is the importance of these estimates? How do ethics play into the decision making process? Which financial statements include significant accounting estimates? Why?

• Should Accounting Have to Approve Estimates?

  No, because of the fact that management must ascertain dozens of different financial statement elements wherein subjective estimates of unknowable future events and myriad scenarios based on complex contracts are factored into decision-making.

• Absolute Market Potential for Industry Sales

  Marketers bother to make potential estimates about sales and revenue to provide a sense of direction and decision making framework or guideline for the marketing and strategy team.

• Significant accounting estimate:

  Ethical behavior means making fair and equitable decisions about significant accounting estimates. The income statement and balance sheet include significant accounting estimates.

• Capital Budgeting & Biases: Eliminating Manager Biases

  These indicate that estimates of future cash flows may vary depending on the person who is making the estimates. In the case of discount rate, the rationale behind its use is to integrate the time value of money in capital budgeting decisions.

• Peluso Company, a manufacturer of snowmobiles, is operating

  Peluso's plant manager is considering making the headlights now being purchased from an outside supplier for $11 each. The Peluso plant has idle equipment that could be used to manufacture the headlights.

• a financial model in projecting future cash flows

  This paper includes the reasons of using financial model to project future cash flow and other primary factors that can be considered in making cash flow estimates.

• Market for Provider Services

  Such economic indicators provide basis for making forecasts/ estimates about the potential market for provider services.

• Capital Budgeting Three-Part Process

  Their estimates may be levelled out or averaged. This would minimize the effect of possible degree of subjectivity and inadequacy of those who are making the estimates on the quality of data that will be used for capital budgeting decisions. 2.

• Your friend comments, 'I just ignore the income statement wh

  420916 Your friend comments, 'I just ignore the income statement when I'm making an investment decision. All I care about is the cash, so that the company can pay me dividends.