{"id":200554,"date":"2018-09-13T22:19:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T22:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/13\/acc-573-week-2-dq-2\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:14:58","slug":"acc-573-week-2-dq-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/acc-573-week-2-dq-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC 573 Week 2 DQ 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s business environment where publicly traded companies feel pressure to meet short-term earnings expectations, management may be tempted to &#8220;manage earnings&#8221;\ufffd. Assess how a financial statement user may be able to detect managed earnings when reviewing the firm&#8217;s balance sheet, income statement, and cash-flow statement. Indicate how a potential investor might interpret these &#8220;red-flags&#8221;\ufffd. Provide support for your rationale.\t\t\t\t\tAssess how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act addresses the concern of corporate &#8220;managed earnings&#8221;\ufffd, indicating whether or not you believe the requirements within the Act are sufficient to minimize these concerns. Provide support for your rationale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s business environment where publicly traded companies feel pressure to meet short-term earnings expectations, management may be tempted to &#8220;manage earnings&#8221;\ufffd. Assess how a financial statement user may be able to detect managed earnings when reviewing the firm&#8217;s balance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/acc-573-week-2-dq-2\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}