Unit 1 Assignment #2 (ACC305 Analysis of Financial Statements)
P1-1Demand for accounting information (LO 1-1)
Required:
- Explain why each of the following groups might want financial accounting information. What type of financial information would each group find most useful?
- The company’s existing shareholders
- Prospective investors
- Company managers.
- Current employees.
- Commercial lenders who have loaned money to the company.
- Current suppliers.
- Debt-rating agencies such as Moody’s or Standard and Poor’s.
- Regulatory agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission.
- Identify at least one other group that might want financial accounting information about the
company, and describe how it would use the information.