conservation Prudence concept: revenue and profits are included in the balance sheet only when they are realized(or there is reasonable ’certainty ’ of realizing them) butliabilities are included when there is a reasonable ’possibility ’ of incurring them. Also called conservation concept. Du Pont analysis A type of analysis that examines a company ’s Return on Equity (ROE) by breaking it into three main components:profit margin‚ asset turnover and leverage factor. By breaking the ROE into
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Week 2 I)Frontier Park was started on April 1 by C.J Mendez and associates. The following selected events and transactions occurred during April. April 1 Stockholders invested $40‚000 cash in the business in exchange for common stock. 4 Purchased land costing $30‚000 for cash. 8 Incurred advertising expense of $1‚800 on account. 11 Paid salaries to employee $1‚500. 12 Hired park manager at a salary of $4‚000 per month‚ effective May 1. 13 Paid
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harmonization of accounting system. Accounting Standards are the statements of code of practice of the regulatory accounting bodies that are to be observed in the preparation and presentation of financial statements. The Generally Accepted Accounting Principles is comprised of a large group of individual accounting standards. Accounting Standards in other words can be stated as rules which govern the preparation of financial statements. They are the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
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regulations set by the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles or GAAP. Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF): Their responsibility is to establish and improve financial accounting‚ the administration and finances of the financial accounting of its standard-setting board‚ the financial accounting standards advisory council‚ the governmental accounting standards board or better known as GASB and their advisory council. Standards of non-government financial accounting and reporting like not-for-profit
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Financial Statement Analyses (Intro) The financial statement is a company’s document reporting the outcome of the business. Managers‚ investors‚ and the public can look to the company’s financial statements to assess a company’s current position‚ past performance‚ and predictions of future performance (Horngren‚ Sundem‚ Stratton‚ Burgstahler‚ & Schatzberg‚ 2008). The individual financial statement assists investors in coming to a conclusion concerning the company. It is imperative
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JETER/ ADVANCED ACCOUNTING CHAPTER 11 INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS TEST BANK MULTIPLE CHOICEConceptual 1. The goals of the International Accounting Standards Committee include all of the following except a. To improve international accounting. b. To formulate a single set of auditing standards to be applied in all countries. c. To promote global acceptance of its standards. d. To harmonize accounting practices between countries. 2. Which of the following is true about the FASB after
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2.0 Ratio analysis The next will introduce the Mulberry’s and its competitor—Burberry’s financial ratios from their financial statements from 2010-2012. 2.1 Profitability analysis 2.1.1 Net profit margin Table 2.1 Mulberry and Burberry’s net profit margin Net profit margin | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | Mulberry | 4.12% | 14.03% | 15.02% | Burberry | 6.42% | 13.74% | 14.27% | Data source: Mulberry’s and Burberry’s 2010-2012 annual reports From Table 2.1 it can find that Mulberry’s net profit
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Classification of Accounting Systems Critically evaluate to what extent past research into classification of accounting systems has become irrelevant because of international harmonization efforts. Let us remind that IASC was replaced in 2001 by IASB (International Accounting Standards Board). We are going to start this paper with the different classification researches‚ taking for example Hofstede and Gray’s studies. Then we will draw the main differences between GAAP (Generally Accepted
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Accounting Assumptions‚ Principles‚ and Constraints The basic assumptions of accounting provide a foundation for recording the transactions and preparing the financial statements. There are two main assumptions of accounting: Monetary unit assumption and Economic entity assumption (Weygandt‚ J. J.‚ Kimmel‚ P. D.‚ & Kieso‚ D. E. (2008)). The monetary unit assumption requires a company to include accounting records that show transaction data. Next‚ is the Economic entity assumption. It requires
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Accounting concepts and conventions [pic] Going concern This concept is the underlying assumption that any accountant makes when he prepares a set of accounts. That the business under consideration will remain in existence for the foreseeable future. In addition to being an old concept of accounting‚ it is now‚ for example‚ part of UK statute law: reference to it can be found in the Companies Act 1985. Without this concept‚ accounts would have to be drawn up on the ’winding up’ basis
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