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RESEARCH ANALYSIS
Discussion Questions: Write your answer in a yellow sheet paper
1. What is the purpose of the notes to financial statements?
The supplemental notes to a company's published financial statements are known as
financial statement notes. The primary objective of the notes to financial statements is
to clarify accounting techniques utilized by a company and to provide information that
occurred during and soon after the accounting period ended.
Total income including profit or loss: Taking all the profits and subtracting all the losses
The correction of any errors: A potential investor would need this information to make
an informed decision.
Additional money invested by owners: The company would disclose the details of these
transactions in the statement of changes in equity as well.
Dividends: The statement of changes would also include the dividends, or company
earnings distributed to shareholders, which decreases the retained earnings balance.
ASSIGNMENT.
Research one (1) Audited Financial Statements of the following companies and analyze what
items in the Statement of Comprehensive Income made them profitable.
3. Petron Corporation
Petron Corporation’s Statement of Comprehensive Income for 2013 shows that their
sale of Petroleum made them profitable most.
https://www.petron.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Petron_-
_Annual_Report_2015_as_filed_with_SEC_on_April_13_2016_-Part_2_of_3.pdf
4. SM Investments Corporation
SM Investments Corporation shows that their sales in 2019 made them profitable most
but their sales growth for 2018 shows the highest rate.
https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/PH/SM/financials/annual/income-statement
5. Ayala Corporation
Ayala Corporation shows that their Sale of Goods made them profitable for the year
ended 2016.
https://www.coursehero.com/file/32764225/IS-ohxlsx/
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
1. C
2. B
3. A
4. B
5. C
6. C
7. D
8. B
9. B
10. B
LEARNING ASSESSMENT
1. A
2. C
3. D
4. B
5. D
6. C
7. D
8. C
9. A
10. C