University of Wollongong Research Online Faculty of Business - Accounting & Finance Working Papers Faculty of Business 2006 Regulation: Standardising Accounting Practice M. Gaffikin University of Wollongong‚ gaffikin@uow.edu.au Publication Details This working paper was originally published as Gaffikin‚ M‚ Regulation: Standardising Accounting Practice‚ Accounting & Finance Working Paper 06/22‚ School of Accounting & Finance‚ University of Wollongong‚ 2006. Research Online is the open access
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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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standard-setting processes. The introduction of IFRS in Australia replaced the original accounting standards and brought several brand new standards. Until now‚ Australia was the first country with a tradition of its own standard-setting to implement international accounting standards for general purposes. Therefore‚ the adoption is unexpected and controversial. This essay mainly focuses on the negative side of this accounting standard conversion‚ which points out a number of potentially serious problems
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AFFECTING ACCOUNTING PRACTICE IN NIGERIA AND THE WAY OUT Accounting Practice refers to the routine manner in which the day-to-day financial activities of a business entity are gathered and recorded. A firm’s accounting practice refers to the method by which its accounting policies are implemented and adhered to on a routine basis‚ typically by an accountant and/or auditor or a team of accounting professionals. In another context‚ an accounting practice is intended to enforce a firm’s accounting guidelines
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CHAPTER 2: REGULATION IN FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING Chapter 2 regulation in Financial accounting LEARNING OUTCOMES Upon completion of this chapter you should be able to understand: • The difference between management and financial accounting. • Why accounting regulations are important and required. • The need for and the structure of professional regulation‚ company law‚ stock exchange legislation and EU Directives. • How the different aspects of regulation work together
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University of Wollongong Research Online Faculty of Commerce - Accounting & Finance Working Papers 2005 Faculty of Commerce Regulation as Accounting Theory M. Gaffikin University of Wollongong‚ michael_gaffikin@uow.edu.au Recommended Citation Gaffikin‚ M.‚ Regulation as Accounting Theory‚ School of Accounting & Finance‚ University of Wollongong‚ Working Paper 9‚ 2005. http://ro.uow.edu.au/accfinwp/50 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of
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necessity of accounting regulations. Some people have many reasons favouring accounting regulations such as the belief that accounting conventions are needed in order to allocate and control the economic outcomes of resource allocation and information stipulation in the market. However‚ others have arguments against the use of accounting regulations‚ such as regulation leading to oversupply of information as users who don’t bare any cost tend to overstate their needs. Accounting regulation arose shortly
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TITLE : RULES AND REGULATION IN PUBLIC SECTOR ACCOUNTING. DATE / TIME : 07 OCTOBER 2012 (MONDAY) / 4:00 PM LOCATION : ROOM SPK308‚ OTHMAN YEOP ABDULLAH BUILDING (SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING.) GUEST : STUDENT OF PUBLIC SECTOR ACCOUNTING GROUP C AGENDA : INFLUENCE OF RULES AND REGULATION ON PUBLIC SECTOR ACCOUNTING PRACTISE. Last Sunday‚ we are discussing about the rule and regulation regarding Public Sector Accounting Practice. On that day‚ we are discussing about the article in federal
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Accounting Practice: It is the routine manner in which the day-to-day financial activities of a business entity are gathered and recorded. A firm’s accounting practice refers to the method by which its accounting policies are implemented and adhered to on a routine basis‚ typically by an accountant and auditor or a team of accounting professionals. Accounting in Bangladesh: In Bangladesh‚ the profession of Accountancy developed during the British colonial period. Today it is represented by two professional
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Accounting Regulation and Conceptual Frameworks‚ Traditional Arguments for Accounting Regulation – 1) Prevention of fraud – Enron 2) Comparability 3) Asymmetrical information – big institutional investors have more information than small retail investors. Beaver (1981)‚ strongly believes in pro market lobby‚ market solutions are always the best‚ we should never regulate. – Very influential academic – Highly reputable Traditional Arguments against accounting regulation 1) Capture theory – person
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