Projecting Financial Trends

Why should companies pay attention to economic factors when managing the organization's current and future financial information?

Consider an organization you are familiar with. Identify the economic factor that has had the most impact on the organization's earnings in the past 5 years.

How has this factor impacted the organization and how has the organization dealt with the impact in a positive or negative manner?

Please put the following income statement and balance sheet terms in the proper order:

Taxes, interest, gross profit, selling, general and administrative expenses, sales, depreciation, net income, cost of goods sold, and EBITDA.

For the balance sheet, please categorize the following as short-term assets, long-term assets, short-term liabilities, long-term liabilities, or owner's equity:

Cash, accruals, property, plant and equipment, inventory, accounts receivables, paid in capital, retained earnings, notes payable, mortgage, and accounts payable.

Please explain in which order the four major financial statements need to be prepared, and why.

Please also explain the three major categories of the statement of cash flows and under which category the following items belong. Also explain whether or not each item would be considered a source or use of cash for the period in question:

• Inventory-increased for period
• Net income-increased for period
• Accounts receivables increase for period
• Accounts payable decrease for period
• Accruals decrease for period 
• Depreciation-increases for period
• Stock issued 
• Property purchased
• Bonds paid off
• Inventories increase for period
• Cash decreases
• Notes payable increase for period
• Bonds redeemed for period

Write your initial response in 200-400words. Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail, include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA Style, and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation