Facebook's Acquisition of WhatsApp: The Rise of Intangibles (A) Case Solution
This is just an excerpt. This case is about FINANCE & ACCOUNTING
PUBLICATION DATE: November 09, 2016
Among Susan Shaw's interests is purchasing the stock exchange. She has actually duplicated some pages of Facebook Inc.'s 2015, 2014, and 2013 monetary declarations, and the business sure looked like a financial investment winner. As she browses these monetary declarations, she notifications that in the 2014 monetary declarations there are some big distinctions from the 2013 declaration for a number of line products, such as Total Assets, Goodwill, Additional Paid in Capital, Revenue, Net Income, and Net Cash Used in Investing Activities. The stated dollar quantities for much of these products noted on the 2014 balance sheet, earnings declaration, and declaration of capital, had actually more than doubled and she questions if standard monetary declarations and reporting conventions were reliable and robust in interacting the complexities and information of offers such as Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp and were all Facebook's properties and business worth showed inits balance sheets.