Lockheed Martins is a multi-billion dollar company and its financials are extremely complex. The following is a high-level overview of the corporation’s financial situation. The overview includes the identification of the organization’s primary financial resources (sales, investments, and credit), a review of the management of its financial resources, summary of its financial performance, a description of how to obtain financial information, and a brief analyze and recommendation for future financial growth.
Primarily, the corporation obtains financial resources from the sales of products and services. As outlined in the 2015 Annual Report, over the past few years, Sales have steadily increased from 2013 (with $ 45 billion) to 2015 (with
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In 2015, the corporation earned 30 million due to the sale of an investment. This is a $24 million increase from the prior year. In addition, Lockheed Martin also receives earnings from equity method investees.
Even though the corporation has substantial earnings from sales and investments, Lockheed Martin also obtains additional revenue when needed from revolving credit facilities, notes, and commercial paper. As defined in the International Dictionary of Finance, revolving credit is a loan that is renewed as it is repaid and can be used repeatedly. A note, is a written acknowledgement of a debt that can repaid with paper money or a type of security. Commercial paper is an unsecured note issued by companies for short-term borrowing purposes.
Lockheed Martin management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over the corporation’s financial resources and reporting. Accordingly, management created an internal control system that was designed to provide reasonable assurance to management and the board of directors regarding the reliability of financial reporting and statements. Management conducted an assessment of the effectiveness of the internal control based on the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organization or the Treadway Commission in Internal Control. Based on that assessment, management has determined that the internal controls are effective. In addition, Lockheed Martin’s independent registered public accounting firm has also reviewed the internal controls and also found them to be
Lockheed Martin is a multibillion-dollar corporation with global interests, which primarily provides security solutions in the form of aeronautical platforms. Lockheed's many divisions work in unison to design, manufacture and provide maintenance support for their various platforms (Lockheedmartin.com, 2015). In essence, it is a one-stop shop for solving a country's need to provide security for its citizens. Since its inception in 1995, Lockheed Martin Corporation has grown its assets to become #196 on the Forbes list of the world's top 2000 public companies. With over $64 billion in assets and more the $45 billion in sales, Lockheed Martin is truly a major player on the world business stage (Erb, Avenue, Chen & Shin, 2015).
Financial Analysis The Home Depot has consistently produced excellent financial numbers, especially over the past few years. These results solidify them as the leader in the industry. Strong financials and pure size of the company are two contributing factors to success. As importantly, statistical analysis show The Home Depot to be an extremely well managed corporation. Total sales from Q3 2016 totaled $22.15 billion, an increase of 6.1% from the year prior.
Week Two Assignment This paper will take an in depth look at the American Eagle Outfitters Incorporated. We will explore the type of products this company sells. Moreover, we will look at the balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements.
Organization Description: Steppingstone Theatre Corporation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located at Saint Paul, Minnesota and has focused on youth development through theatrical production and education. It has successfully serving the children and teenagers whose age are from 3-16, and providing them different kinds of opportunities to experience the theatres and enrich their knowledge while they are involving into the theatrical activities or classes. Since they have been at Saint Paul back into the 80s, the organization has served the people for almost three decades, and Steppingstone Theatre always concentrates on providing stage production with children in order to grow their interests toward theatres . Thus, it plays a vital
The Kroger Co. is a grocery retailer in the United States started by Bernard Kroger in 1883. With his life savings of $372 and a simple motto: “Be particular. Never sell anything you would not want yourself.” he opened the first Kroger grocery store in Cincinnati, Ohio. Bernard Kroger owned one of the first chain store operations in the United States.
It is obvious that the control system being used is ineffective due to the problems present within the last few years. With changes made to the control system it can increase the chances of that everyone are doing what they are supposed to be doing and not doing inappropriate things that could have the relieved of their duties or does not meet the department
Groupon, Inc. has been operating since 2008, offering daily deals and discounts for local businesses. Groupon had rapid growth by the end of 2009, spreading to 28 cities across the United States of America (The History of Groupon). Groupon 's then Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Mason stated in the Security Exchange Commision (SEC) S-1 filling from June 2, 2011 the following: "We increased our revenue from $3.3 million in the second quarter of 2009 to $644.7 million in the first quarter of 2011. We expanded from five North American markets as of June 30, 2009 to 175 North American markets and 43 countries as of March 31, 2011. We increased our subscriber base from 152,203 as of June 30, 2009 to 83.1 million as of March 31, 2011.
This instance clearly highlights the importance of internal control functions that identify, assess, monitor and report the risks and controls effectiveness on an ongoing basis Governing Bodies or Organizations These governing bodies have enacted and developed various professional standards and acts that form the basis of audit principles. Table 2 List of governing bodies for Audit Organization Name Principles or Acts or Standards relevant for Audit function Remarks IIA (The Institute of Internal Auditors) International Professional Practices Framework • Basis for audit techniques and procedures • Standard for evaluating internal audit function AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Account) Statement on Auditing Standards • Statements on Auditing Standards (SASs) • Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAEs) • Statements on Quality Control Standards
AGSC 214:01 Reflective Paper Tyson Foods, Inc. is a major corporation that produces poultry products. It began in the early 1930s by a work driven man named John W. Tyson during the Great Depression. His poultry adventure began in the town of Springdale, Arkansas. Many of his customers claimed him to serve quality chicken and great delivery. Due to John Tysons well, kept work ethic his business expanded and is now one of the top poultry producers in the United States.
Pros of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) It created a requirement that critical information about companies be revealed by the companies to their shareholders. This part of the Act may increase the confidence of the shareholders and attract more shareholders. It created rules regarding accounting practices and internal controls. Reports that describe the sufficiency and effectiveness of its accounting internal controls must be filed quarterly by the management of the company. There is an accountability requirement for the people reporting the financial information.
Net earnings increased 18.0% to $2.7 billion during fiscal year 2014, Net sales for 2014
They repurchased lots of their stock as well, 6,500,000 shares in 2015, 6,800,000 shares in 2014, and 6,700,000 shares in 2013. These were all valued at approximately 521,000,000 in 2015 and 400,000,000 in 2014 and 2013. They were also able to repay 500,000,000 in senior notes at maturity on January 15, 2016. In final, they expect to repurchase 650,000,000 to 700,000,000 dollars worth of common stock on December 31,
Designing and using management control systems can play a vital role in dealing with cybersecurity issues that have emerged along with the development of the Internet. Effective management control systems would decrease a company's probability of suffering major damages from cybersecurity breaches. Learning from and extending on the pre-existing agency-based capital budgeting research, this research validates the significance of the analysis of management accounting controls to issues developing in the cybersecurity field. The main result is that businesses can use an information security audit along with alterations to the compensation payments to the agent and the investment decision guidelines, to alleviate a Chief Information Security Officer’s innate empire building preferences. The research also recognizes further research areas where management accountants with expertise in management control systems can be helpful to the academic works and practice surrounding cybersecurity problems (Gordon, Loeb, Sohail, Tseng, & Zhou,215-241).
The organization organizes the control activities through the guidelines which institute what is expected and the techniques which put the policies into achievement. Monitoring activities 16. The organization chooses, develops and then accomplishes the ongoing and the distinct evaluations in order to determine whether the constituents of the internal control are existing and
The course on cash management tells us the importance of cash for a company. Though profits are considered an important indicator of success for a firm, there are many who now realize that cash is even more fundamental to the firm’s