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1. Present investments in marketable securities at their market value, rather than at cost.
2. Treat inventory as a financial asset and show it at current sales value.
3. On December 31, draw a large check against one of the company's bank accounts and deposit it in another of the company's accounts in a different bank. The check won't clear the first bank until after year-end. This will substantially increase the amount of cash in bank accounts at year-end.
4. Do you consider it ethical for management to hold this meeting in the first place? That is, should management plan in advance how to improve financial statements that will be distributed to creditors and investors?

Affections manufactures candy and sells only to retailers. It is not a publicly owned company asd its financial statements are not audited. But the company frequently must borrow money. Its cred. tors insist that the company provide them with unaudited financial statements at the end of ext quarter In October, management met to discuss the fiscal year ending next December 31 . Due to sluggish economy, Affections was having difficulty collecting its accounts receivable, and its cabh position was unusually low. Management knew that if the December 31 balance sheet did not look good, the company would have difficulty borrowing the money it would need to boost production for Valentine's Day. Thus the purpose of the meeting was to explore ways in which Affections might improve its December 31 balance sheet. Some of the ideas discussed are as follows