Accountants follow professional guidelines for measurement and disclosure of financial information. These are called generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). In the United States‚ the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) formulates GAAP. The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) sets global or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)‚ the two basic types of external providers of capital include investors (who exchange cash for stock) and creditors (who loan cash)
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Generally Accepted Auditing Standards ACC/491 Contemporary Auditing 1 March 27‚ 2014 Richard A Cochran Generally Accepted Auditing Standards Generally Accepted Auditing Standards‚ also known as GAAS‚ are the most acknowledged auditing standards known. GAAS relates to the conduct of individual audit engagements and are a set of standards in which quality of audits are performed and may be judged. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has a division
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Receivable others are: interest receivable‚ rent receivable‚ tax refund receivable‚ and receivables from employees Accounts Receivable- are amounts due from customers for credit sales when a company does extend credit directly to customers it: 1. Maintains a separate account receivable for each customer 2. accounts for bad debts from credit sales Recognizing Accounts Receivable: AR occurs from credit sales to customers Sales on Credit: credit sales are recorded by increasing(debiting) accounts
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ACC201 Principles of Managerial Accounting Assignment Type: Individual or Group Words: 1500 words for individual or 2800 or 4200 words for a group of two or three members‚ respectively. Presentation: Both hardcopy and softcopy should be presented on the due date. The hardcopy should handle to me and the softcopy to the Turnitin (as software to check out the plagiarism)by the due date. The instruction for how to submit to the Turnitin will be provided you later through my web space.
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What Does Historical Cost Mean? A measure of value used in accounting in which the price of an asset on the balance sheet is based on its nominal or original cost when it was acquired by the company. The historical-cost method is used for assets in the United States under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Cost concepts and terms 1. Cost The amount of expenditure (actual or notional) incurred on or attributable to a specified article‚ product or activity is referred to
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OL3210--Principles of Managerial Accounting—unit 2 complete There are various ways that financial statement information is presented in this article on Nokia. The first way I see is in the Good News section on page 1 “the bulk of its revenues—more than quadrupled‚ from $2.1 billion in 1993 to $8.7 billion last year (1997)‚” and on say “the recent June quarter surging to $616 million‚ up 76% from the same quarter in 1997” this is an partial example of an horizontal analysis (Stone‚ 1998). A horizontal
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Problem sET A Problem 4-1A (40 minutes) Aug. 1 Merchandise Inventory 6‚000 Accounts Payable—Abilene 6‚000 Purchased goods on credit. 4 Accounts Payable—Abilene 100 Cash 100 Paid freight for Abilene. 5 Accounts Receivable—Lux 4‚200 Sales 4‚200 Sold goods on credit. 5 Cost of Goods Sold 3‚000 Merchandise Inventory 3‚000 To record the cost of August 5 sale. 8 Merchandise Inventory 5‚540
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NFA note Chapter 1 Government by statute or under not for profit corporation laws are governmental if they posses one more of the following chateristics: their officers are popularly elected or a controlling majority of their governing body is appointed or approved by governmental officals‚ they possess the power to enact and enforce a tax levy‚ they hold the power to directly issue debt whose interest is exempt from federal taxation‚ or they face the potential that a government might dissolve
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HT513 PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING FOR TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY 1. Document used after business transaction 2. Book of prime entry INTRODUCTION OF BUSINESS • The purpose of a business is to make a profit for its owner(s) • A business is a separate entity from its owner. • Every financial transaction has a dual effect. • Double entry bookkeeping accounts for the dual aspect of financial statement transactions. INTRODUCTION OF FINANCIAL STATEMENT • Information from a trial balance is used to prepare
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Running Head: Foundational Accounting Principles and Terminology 1 TUI University Eric Bollar Module 1: Case Assignment ACC501 Accounting For Decision Making Dr. Wendy Achilles January 21‚ 2011 Foundational Accounting Principles and Terminology 2 We all know how important the accounting aspect of any business/organization is. It is basically the most important way to manage
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