The accruals and going concern concepts are regarded as fundamental in the preparation of financial statements. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these concepts‚ explaining the reasons why these concepts may be difficult to apply or may be inconsistent with other concepts. Accounting statement and records are a periodic summary of account activity within a period and the documentations involved in the preparation of it (Thomas and Ward‚ 2012: 4). They are done based on a set of rules developed
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What is financial reporting? The traditional function of financial reporting was to provide business owners with information about the companies that they owned and operated. Once the delegation of managerial responsibilities to hired personnel became a common practice‚ financial reporting began to focus on stewardship—that is‚ on the managers’ accountability to the owners. Its purpose then was to document how effectively the owners’ assets were managed‚ in terms of both capital preservation and
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Financial Reporting Quality and Investment Efficiency Rodrigo S. Verdi The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania 1303 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall Philadelphia‚ PA 19104 Email: rverdi@wharton.upenn.edu Phone: (215) 898-7783 Abstract This paper studies the relation between financial reporting quality and investment efficiency on a sample of 49‚543 firm-year observations between 1980 and 2003. Financial reporting quality has been posited to improve investment efficiency‚ but there has been
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Statement of Principles for Financial Reporting on current UK financial reporting practice. The ASC was set up in the 1970’s‚ where at the time there was no clear statement of accounting principles‚ accept that the accounts should be prudent; consistent; follow the accrual accounting procedures and be based on the assumption that the entity would remain a going concern. Up until 1990 standards were set by the ASC; a body made up of six professional accounting bodies in the UK. By 1991 the ASC
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defined regulations relating to financial accounting as rules that are developed by independent authoritative body to govern the preparation of financial statements which are accounting standards. Since decades ago‚ there have been arguments for and against the existence of accounting regulations. With a stance of pro-regulation‚ this essay is going to examine the reasons that financial accounting and reporting should be regulated and the merits of accounting regulations. Firstly‚ financial reports
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A practical guide to segment reporting September 2008 PricewaterhouseCoopers’ IFRS and corporate governance publications and tools 2008 IFRS technical publications IFRS Manual of Accounting 2008 Provides expert practical guidance on how groups should prepare their consolidated financial statements in accordance with IFRS. Comprehensive publication including hundreds of worked examples‚ extracts from company reports and model financial statements. IFRS Pocket Guide 2008 Provides a summary
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Example 2.1 Recognition of an asset Entity X enters into a legal arrangement to act as trustee for entity Y by holding listed shares on entity Y’s behalf. Entity Y makes all investment decisions and entity X will act according to entity Y’s instructions. Entity X will earn a trustee fee for holding the shares. Any dividends or profit/(loss) from the investments belong to entity Y. Elements of financial statementsThe elements of financial statements 53 Entity X should not recognise the listed shares
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Accruals and the Prediction of Future Cash Flows: evidence from China Background Predicting the company’s future cash flows is of high significance in accounting and finance areas alike‚ due to the fact that the ability of company generating cash flows substantially influences its securities value. For this purpose‚ Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) states that the primary objective of financial reporting is to provide information to help investors‚ creditors‚ and others in assessing
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Index 1 Introduction to segmental reporting 2 2 Origin of segmental reporting 2 2.1 The fineness-theorem 2 2.2 Market efficiency theory 2 2.3 Agency theory 2 2.4 Accounting theory 3 3 The most important segmental reporting standards 3 3.1 International Accounting Standard 14 (IAS 14) 3 3.1.1 The International Accounting Standards Committee 3 3.1.2 The International Accounting Standards Board 4 3.1.3 IAS 14: Segment reporting 4 3.1.3.1 Objective of IAS 14 (revised) 4 3.1.3.2 Applicability
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Governmental Financial Reporting Presented by David R. Koeppen‚ Ph.D.‚ CPA Department of Accountancy Boise State University dkoeppen@boisestate.edu Topics • • • • • Introduction Reporting Basics Fund Accounting Government-wide Financial Statements Summary and Conclusion Introduction • • • • Purpose of Financial Reporting Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Characteristics of Governmental Entities Effects of Characteristics on Financial Reporting Purpose of Financial Reporting • Private sector
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