Reporting & Analyzing Liabilities
Question 1. Does your company use short-term or long-term financing to acquire a majority of funds it needs? Please explain without going into too much detail about your company.
Question 2. What are the advantages of using long-term debt versus short-term debt? Discuss the impact base on their availability, risk, cost etc.
Reporting & Analyzing Stockholders' Equity
Question 3. As an individual investor do you think bond or stock is a better investment for you? Explain.
Question 4. Should a company hold on to profit (net income) and not return them back to stockholders in the form of dividends? Discuss why and why not.
Question 5. Discuss the benefits or disadvantage of selling stocks as related to the issuer (the company).
Question 6. Discuss the benefits or disadvantage of buying stocks as related to the buyer.
Reporting & Analyzing Liabilities
Question 7. What is a current liability? What is a noncurrent liability? What is the difference between the two types of liabilities? In which financial statement would you find these liabilities?
Question 8. What are the types of equity accounts? What is the role of equity accounts in raising capital? Under what circumstances would you not pay a dividend? Under what circumstances would up pay a dividend?