ACC 305 Intermediate Accounting The Role of FASB After the Stock Market Crash of 1929‚ many believers felt the crash was a result of inadequate and misleading financial statements which contributed to overstated stock prices‚ causing the crash and an the eventual depression. The Stock Market Cash proved the necessity for accounting standards. “Investors and creditors use financial information to make their resource allocation decisions. It’s critical that they be able to compare financial
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1. You use a perpetual inventory system and value the inventory using FIFO. Prior to making adjusting year-end entries you valued the inventory at the lower-of-cost or-market. Justify why you valued the inventory at lower-of-cost or-market. FASB ASC CITATION: Adjustments to Lower of Cost or Market 330-10-35-1 A departure from the cost basis of pricing the inventory is required when the utility of the goods is no longer as great as their cost. Where there is evidence that the utility of goods‚
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Unit 2 Case Study Access the FASB Codification and prepare responses to the following questions‚ providing Codification references as support for your answers. 1. Access the glossary and give the definition for: a. Firm Fixed-Price Contract This is a contract of the price which allows it not be subject to adjustment as a result of the performance provided as outlined in the contract. What was outlined in the contract is what will be the cost. There cannot be any hidden fees added once the
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NaviNow will pay $8 million to the four former owners of TrafficEye if revenues from the combined system exceed $100 million over the next 3 years. NaviNow estimates this contingent payment to have a probability adjusted present value of $4million. According to down said formula (http://www.ey.com/Global/assets.nsf/United%20Accounting/ATG_FRD_BB1616/$file/ATG_FRD_BB1616.pdf) the $8million is consideration transferred in the acquisition. B6.4.4.7 Factors involving a formula for determining contingent
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Theory The first experiment focused on the concept of errors and uncertainties that are obtained during measurements. For an experiment to be successful‚ especially those that involve measurements‚ the number of significant figures must be known. Significant figures are the digits required to express a measured quantity and thus reflect the accuracy of the measurement. Uncertainty is defined as the smallest increment that can be measured and is defined by the instrument used. An error is defined
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Relationship between the IFRS and the FASB Hadassah Moore ACC/541 May 14‚ 2013 Instructor: Sonja Wilson Relationship between the IFRS and the FASB The principle of accounting dates backs thousands of years to a time where those in positions of governance wanted to make others aware of their growth and progress. Shift forward‚ and now the principles of accounting have moved towards an interest in investments and creating wealth for all those who hold stock within the company. This has led
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criteria specified in the FASB’s conceptual framework that contain basic guidelines for revenue recognition. Based on these guidelines‚ revenue should not be recognized until it is realized or realizable and earned.（FASB ASC 605-10-25-3; FASB ASC 605-10-25-5）Recognition and Measurement in Financial Statements of Business Enterprises‚ paragraph 83(b) states that "an entity’s revenue-earning activities involve delivering or producing goods‚ rendering services‚ or other activities that constitute its
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International Accounting‚ Auditing and Taxation The financing of the IASB: An analysis of donor diversity Robert K. Larson a‚∗ ‚ Sara York Kenny b a b Department of Accounting‚ University of Dayton‚ Dayton‚ OH 937-229-2497‚ United States IFRS Interpretations Committee‚ and Retired‚ International Finance Corporation‚ World Bank Group‚ United States a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: International Accounting Standards Board IASB International Financial Reporting Standards IFRS Financing
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"Revenue from Contracts with Customers” Jade Nelson ACCT 4111-01 10/28/2014 Over the past few years‚ the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) have been working closely together to develop a new set of revenue recognition standards in an effort to merge the standards of FASB and IASB‚ lessen the amount of industry-specific differences in the standards‚ and make the standards more principles-based. Because revenue is very important
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are “7” members for the FASB and they function as full time along with being obligated to break their links to firms and institutions that they have been affiliated with in previous time frames. This is all prior to them linking up as board members for the FASB‚ 2014. The present executive members are Golden‚ Kroeker‚ Buck Linsmeier‚ Schroeder‚ Siegel and Smith. 1. Golden started his duration as the 7th chairman of the FASB as of 7/1/2013. He began his duties to the FASB back in 2010. At that
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