Accounting policies are specific accounting bases selected and consistently followed by a business.Allowing businesses to make choices on the use of accounting policies may lead to withholding information from the accounts to ensure that the figures appeal to stakeholders. This can be perceived as a potential weakness of accounting policy choices as businesses may have to cease all trading activities and employees will lose their jobs so this can affect stakeholders. Accounting policy choices
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perceived. In an accounting context‚ the sustainability reporting has evolved into a kind of tool for an organization to show and present its Corporation Social Responsibility. Moreover‚ it is also the expectation for the business organization to operate in a sustainable way. In the recent researches‚ there are sufficient evidences show how important the sustainable development to the community? How the conventional accounting evolve into two breeds of accounting‚ which are social accounting and environment
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prepared financial statements The International Financial Reporting Standards or better known as IFRS‚ are generally principal-based standards‚ interpretations‚ and framework which is taken up by the International Accounting Standard Board (IASB) (Accounting Standards‚ 1997). The IFRS financial statements include the presentation of a set of statement of financial position‚ an income statement‚ a statement of cash flows and a statement of changes in equity. Information that are presented
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Name: Section: University of Toronto At Mississauga Financial Accounting Theory & Policy I MGT 224 Mid-Term October 23‚ 2006 6:10-7:40 p.m. Instructions: 1. This is a ninety minute examination. 2. The test consists of two short exercises and one case. Please show your calculations. For the case analysis‚ use the case analysis framework as discussed in class. 3. You are allowed to use only a non-programmable calculator. No other aids are allowed. 4. You may
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change recorded in the value of the asset since acquisition. In this manner‚ the accounting report does not demonstrate genuine value of assets. Historical cost is reprimanded for its mistake since it may not reflect current market valuation. As indicated by GAAP standards‚ fixed assets ought to be at historical cost less accumulated depreciation.
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Accounting Regulation With the recent accounting discrepancies that have taken place in some of America’s largest and well known corporations greater importance is being placed on the creation and monitoring of financial reports. Some of these organizations which regulate how financial reports and compiled are private‚ given a charter by a federal agency‚ others were born from the creation of new laws and regulations‚ some are state agencies‚ and many more are private organizations made up of academics
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The term of creative accounting refers to select accounting methods for the preparation of financial statement that provide the result desired by the accounting preparers. Especially when the firms are under a financial difficulty‚ the need of creativity would be very apparent because it might be difficult for parties such as auditors‚ with an oversight function‚ to report that the account preparers are doing anything wrong (Deegan‚ 2010). When the economy is moving into recession‚ the most companies
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Question no: 01:- Accounting profit and Economic profit. Economic Profit Implicit cost Accounting profit Explicit cost Total opportunity cost Revenue Revenue How an economist views a firm How an accountant views a firm Accounting profit equals sales revenue minus ( - ) all costs except the cost of equity capital‚ while Economic profit is sales revenue minus ( - ) all costs including the opportunity cost of equity capital. Thus economic profit may be lower than the accounting profit. If accounting
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HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING Primitive Accounting Traced as far as 8500 BC in Mesopotamia through the use of clay like: a. Record for paid wages b. Record purposes‚ as general Pyramids in Egypt‚ for the costs of structures Other places like China‚ Babylon‚ and Greece Middle Ages More formal account-keeping methods were developed by the merchants and banks. Double-entry records first appeared in Genoa in 1340 AD. First accounting book was written by Contrugli in Naples Summa de Arithmetica
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RESPONSIBILITY ACCOUNTING Management Accounting - Responsibility Accounting Planning & control are essential for achieving good results in any business. Firstly‚ a budget is prepared and‚ secondly‚ actual results are compared with budgeted ones. Any difference is made responsibility of the key individuals who were involved in (i) setting standards‚ (ii) given necessary resources and (iii) powers to use them. In order to streamline the process‚ the entire organization is broken into various
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