One of the biggest reasons it is important that financial accounting systems reports performance fairly and factually is to avoid legal actions in regards to accounting fraud. Recent downfalls of organizations due to financial misrepresentations and financial fraud have caused a huge downfall in our society. It is important for management accounting to be responsible for reporting accurately. Management Accounting is a system using financial accounting records as basic data to enable better business planning decisions. Financial management works closely with the company’s management to rely financial information. Falsifying financial records can cause the organization to lose accreditation as well.…
The nature of accounting is changing with specific demands in the market. Today, the SME clients require specific information and thus there have been a positivist-accounting approach while preparing accounting statements. One step in this positivist approach is where the general purpose financial statements are becoming deregulated and let market forces control the quality of the general purpose financial statement. The deregulation of the financial statement means that the statement created must not follow all the guidelines of the general accepted accounting principles but rather be user or client oriented. The information that the special purpose statement will contain may be different from that in the general purpose financial statement because the goal of the two accounting approaches is different. The deregulation of the general accepted financial reports however does not necessary mean that the independent auditor play a greater role and will earn more revenues.…
Accounting professionals consider standard practices of accounting and board of accountancy rules when creating ethical standards. Accountants also consider state and federal laws. Ethics and the law works hand-in-hand therefore should be on the minds of those considering the commission of fraud. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Excello, Terry Reed, was considering doing such by posting a $2.1 million transaction to raise year-end earnings.…
Management needs to have a plan or purpose in motion and gather the necessary information which will make the health care organization successful. Controlling is when the healthcare organization is adhering to the plans that are developed by management. Organizing and directing a plan which the health care organization needs to follow and maintain certain steps, resources and stayed focused on the end result, which is success. The proper decision making choices are through education. The financial team is accountable for making sure the appropriate reports are up-to-date, and they are accountable for reporting the funds with principles set forth by the code of ethics and mission statements of the health care organization. Every organization must be willing to release the financial reports which are deemed to be correct. If a health care organization provides incorrect information, this can be immoral and cause financial difficulties to the…
For as long as businesses have existed, so has accounting. With time, it has become more complicated and detailed, but it is still a process of keeping financial accounts in order. Through accounting, or financial reporting, a system is set up to keep track of, maintain and audit the financial proceedings. Because accounting and financial reporting of a business is so important for its accuracy and in general, a lot of ethical, technological and legal concerns are involved. In this paper, we will look identify and explore the concerns of each of these.…
In accounting there is much to be learned, about the financial aspects of a business. In the past five weeks I have learned the importance of financial reports and how they relate to the success of an establishment. These reports may include balance sheets and income statements, which help accountants and the public grasp the overall financial condition of a company. The information in these reports is really significant to, managers, owners, employees, and investors. Managers of a business can take and deduce financial figures from the income statement which details monthly earnings as well as the company’s liabilities and equity position, and even project future yearly budgets.…
While I was looking for an appropriate topic for research, I found an interesting publication, which fitted best to the subject (ethics in managerial accounting issues) and also included 5 good examples examples of possible problems associated with the field. The method of the study seemed unclear, especially considering the connection between the serial number of a dollar bill and the question to which the respondent had to answer in the end (in my work I will constantly refer back to the text, and in the end there will be a link to the document for review), though the examples given in the text seem to be really appropriate.…
Much success in today’s business world is tied in with numbers in the form of accounting and financial statements. Being able to understand and properly read these statements is a critical component in truly knowing a business and properly assessing its overall financial performance. Financial reporting is the issuance of written documents in the form of the financial statements by the companies to the shareholders, stakeholders and other interested parties. 'The objective of these financial statements is to provide information about the reporting entity's financial performance and position that is useful to the wide range of users for assessing the stewardship of the entity's management and for making economic decisions. 'To be 'useful,' this information must be 'represented faithfully, should be complete, prudent and free from material errors at least.' The purpose of imposing regulations on accounting practices and setting standards is to fulfil the objectives of financial statements.…
There are three type of financial system has been formalized by Zysman which are capital market system, credit-based government systems and credit-based financial institution systems. These types could be simplified further to ‘equity’ and ‘credit’. In United States and United Kingdom, companies are finance by investors rather than by individual shareholders. So, in these countries with a widespread ownership of companies by shareholders who do not have access to internal information, there will be a pressure for disclosure, audit and fair information. Thus, this will lead to a different financial reporting.…
The concept its using is a revolutionary. His work contains a vehement attack against the present accounting practice. He thinks that the function of accounting is to report economic truth. But financial statements, he argues, do not present truth.They are misleading to the investors and creditors. In particular, he says that the historical cost principle and the conservatism convention prevent financial statements from presenting true financial position and the operating results of the firm.…
Creative accounting, at root, is the origin of numerous accounting frauds. Many accounting scandal cases (like the scandals in Enron, WorldCom, and other firms) in the past few years had happened with the result of collapse. Most of these scandals were conducted by the senior management of organisations and many victims include the employees, shareholders as well as the society had been suffered from these fraudulent cases. Therefore, it draws our attention to why and how a company may use the creative accounting to commit its so-called “window dressing” (Ghosh, 2010, p.2). This research will explore the nature, incidence and techniques of creative accounting as well as how it works.…
Financial reporting plays a key role in current world, especially in business activities. Most firms prepare their performance through their financial statements. With the development of human being, there is a big innovation happened in financial reporting. Human being start to adopt sustainability in the reporting in order to satisfy the future needs. Sustainability is an innovation theory which meets the needs of present human being without bring negative effect to the future generation (WCED 1987, P.40). After several years research work, sustainability theory not only used in environmental improvement, but also can influence on the economy, society and culture (Bob, Bill &Geoff 2002, p.189). In recent years, the theory of sustainability becomes the global issue which affects the process of accounting and practice. Especially in ethical and social fields, sustainability theory leads human being to critical thinking about the nature of “truth” and “reality” in financial statements.…
Ethical Dimensions of Financial Accounting with Respect to the Keeping of Two Sets of Records.…
However, there is general awareness all over the world of the need to pay greater attention to the development of government accounting and financial control. The reason is obvious, government, in most, if not all nations constitute the largest single business entity in many places, the core of the economy. Government in any society is basically for maintaining law and order. With changes and the complete nature of the society, government responsibility has automatically changed from the role of maintaining law and order to business like nature in the modern era. The enormous activities of government, equally call for enlarged government accounting in order to accommodate the immense task. As a result of this development, the traditional cash procedures of accounting can hardly meet the demands of reasonable accounting for modern government in providing necessary services or information. Therefore, there is need for government accounting to be dynamic in order to accommodate both the fundamental roles and the developments.…
The concern of this project paper is to explore the differences between Islamic accounting and its conventional counterpart. The distinctions need to be addressed as both accounting is presently thought of many people as synonymous. There is danger for such kind of perception because the basic building blocks for respective accounting are worlds apart. As for professional accountants who have been taught on the idea for accounting to be ‘objective’ and value-free, the idea for attaching a religion may seems to be embarrassing and unprofessional. However, with the resurgence of Islam globally, the awareness for the need of Islamic accounting arises. Islamic accounting as a whole is able to serve the whole gamut of stakeholders. Its principles do not serve the interest of any particular group, but to the society as a whole which can make corporations accountable for their actions and ensure they comply with Shariah principles.…