Sunday, 23 March 2014

KCQ’S on Chapter Three: Introducing Financial Statements

Chapter three was way better than chapter one more interesting and I could relate it to being at a university meeting new people for the first time. 
  • Companies Balance Dates are all different.
  • Equity value= Present Value of excepted future dividends.
  • Cash Flow and Dividends are cousins. 
  • Dividends= Cash Flow-Capital+Net Cash Flow
  • Income statements shows the changes in a business over a year. 

Questions:

  • Why isn't there a required format for balance sheets?
  • Why isn't there specific rules on financial statements?
KCQ’S on Chapter One: A way of viewing business

I thought parts of the readings like Luca Pacioli, Journals and Ledgers, Accounting Equation, and the last three pages was where I got good insight and knowledge of accounting. 

  • Firms creating and exchanging value with other firms through various markets.
  • Five elements of accounting Asset, Liabilities, Equity, Revenue and Expense
  • 'Idea's are Powerful' 

Questions:
  • Would it be bad to go into a family partnership business?
  • Would it be worth now starting a new business or buying a business/shop?
  • Why business owner’s waste money on accountants if you know and have accounting experiences why not they do it themselves? 

  • For your firm, identify three Assets, three Liabilities and three items of Equity. Describe what each item means to you (you may find some footnotes in your firm’s financial statements may help you to make more sense of these items).

Assets:
1.      Cash and Cash Equivalents- means cash on hand.
2.      Trade and other receivables- mean fair value for costs of items.
3.      Inventories- mean goods in stock.

Liabilities
1.      Trade and other payables- money owed to supplier or helper.
2.      Borrowings- borrowing money for a certain time and paying it back.
3.      Current tax liabilities- an amount you have to pay to the authorities.

Equity
1.      Issued capital- value shares that are issued to shareholders.
2.      Reserves- a part of a shareholders’ equity.
3.      Retained losses- a loss by a business in sales.

Saturday, 22 March 2014


Annual Report:
Key Concepts:
  • The financial year finishes on the 31st of December and starts 1st of January.
  • Only covers Malaysia, Pakistan and Thailand.
  • Head office in  Sydney, Australia. But runs in Asia.
  • Euronet is it's parent company and Ria its sister's company. 
  • Revenue in 2012 was $11.4 million (2011: $10.9 million) meaning an increase of 3.9% in revenue.
  • Outlook to build a strong balance in terms of revenue and footprint to continue to deliver shareholder value. Finally getting to the important part of the annual report the numbers.
  • Total Comprehensive Income for 2012 was $2,086,049 (2011: $1,990,580).
  • Total Equity of 2012 was $12,709,308 (2011: $15,177,685).


Questions:
  • Why don't they expand to other countries around Asia? e.g: India, China, Singapore etc.
  • How come they don't talk about how many employees they have? But talk about how much the higher up people get?
  • What is Foreign Currency Exchange Risk? I looked it up but still couldn't understand it?
  • Do they have the head office in Australia so the company can be listed on the ASX? Is that aloud?
Links to some News Articles on E-Pay Asia:

Articles:
http://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/news/48782/e-pay-asia-takes-time-to-mull-change-of-control-48782.html

http://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/news/48835/e-pay-asia-limited-receives-takeover-from-malaysias-ghl-systems-berhad-48835.html

http://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/news/51950/e-pay-asia-takeover-by-malaysias-ghl-systems-berhad-extended-to-february-51950.html


Video:
http://www.epayasia.my/default.aspx?portalname=www.epayasia.my/gbnn&pageid=3167
Looking through others peoples wiki blogs and I thought these three people had great blogs for me to get to know a lot about their company and what they do:
  1.  http://meganelouise.blogspot.com.au/ - best layout and so easy to read and understand what her company does.
  2.  http://annatowanacct11059.blogspot.com.au/ - nice layout easy to find out information on her page.
  3.  http://emilyaitchison.blogspot.com.au/ - fun and nice colorful layout on page and had a cool company.

Thursday, 20 March 2014

E-Pay Asia's vision is to be the number one leading payment processor in Asia and mission to enrich customer experience through innovative and friendly solutions, also to satisfy customer requirements and career development to employees and sustainable value for stakeholders. E-Pay was the first mobile service company in Asia in 1999 but now has many competitors, but they still strive to be number one Mobile service in Asia.
My Company E-Pay Asia Limited, started in 1999 in venture with E-Pay UK. What do they do you, you ask me E-Pay Asia Limited provides electronic top-up services or the reloading of airtime minutes for prepaid mobile phone users in Asia. It's services are offered through a network of point of sale terminals located in convenience stores, pharmacies and other retail venues throughout most of Asia. The value of the company is around $22.8 million Australia dollars and is growing in value and shareholders due to the increase population in Asia.