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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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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Week 2: Topic 1: Financial Accounting Theory & the Reporting Environment GHTHH Chapter 2 5. Researchers who develop positive theories and researchers who develop normative theories often do not share the same views about the roles of their respective approaches to theory construction. (a) How do positive and normative theories differ? (b) Can positive theories assist normative theories‚ or vice versa? If yes‚ give an example. If not‚ why not? Normative accounting research makes policy recommendations
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410 Instructor’s Manual Financial Accounting and Reporting Twelfth edition Barry Elliott Jamie Elliott For further instructor material please visit: www.pearsoned.co.uk/elliott-elliott ISBN: 978-0-273-71271-8 ( Pearson Education Limited 2008 Lecturers adopting the main text are permitted to download and photocopy the manual as required. [pic] Pearson Education Limited Edinburgh Gate Harlow Essex CM20 2JE England and Associated Companies
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Abstract The Financial Reporting Council decided in 2002 that Australian would move to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in 2005. Prior to that‚ Australia had its own 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
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the 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
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MCQs in lecture from ch 2 1. Accounting theories should be A. Inductive B. Deductive C. Descriptive D. None of the given options is correct 2. Which of the following statements is true about accounting measurements such as profits and assets? A. They are subject to professional judgment B. They would not vary if prepared by different accountants‚ providing they were based on the same set of accounting standards C. They are based on hard‚ objective‚ evidence
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Financial Reporting in an International Approach (1) Answer: Conceptual Framework: The Conceptual Framework is a report of generally recognized theoretical values which is very important form the period of reference for business reporting. Moreover‚ it is a coherent structure of related purposes and a major idea which is recommends the environment‚ purpose and boundaries of business accounting that is predictable to lead to reliable guidance. Also‚ it is planned to assist the community interest
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ACCOUNTING AND FINACIAL REPORTING Group Project FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS Due January 30‚ 2013 1. Focused on parts: 2 Balance Sheet and 3 Income Statement 2. Focused on parts: 1 General Information 3. Focused on parts: 4 Evaluation of the Corporation’s Disclosures 4. Focused on parts: ……………… (Although each member may focus on some specific parts for report preparation
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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 as its asset even though it is in posses- sion of the shares. Entity X does not control the investment’s future economic benefits. Benefits from the investments flow
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