ASSIGNMENT (Stage 1) ACCT 11059 – Using Accounting For Decision Making Prepared By Lingdi Fu (s0210541) Lecturer & Tutor’s Name: Mitch Hsu Due Date: Saturday‚ 4th August 2012‚ 11:00 PM Step1 During carefully and thoughtfully read through the firm’s latest annual report. We can find the company is called GR Engineering Services. It is an Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) listed public company located in 183 Great Eastern Highway‚ Belmont. The principle activities of the company is providing
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Contents QUESTION ONE: Accounting Concepts and Conventions 1 a) Accounting Concepts 1 i) The going concern concept. 1 ii) The accruals concept (or matching concept) 1 iii) The entity concept: 3 iv) The money measurement concept: 3 v) The historical cost concept: 4 vi) The realization concept: 4 vii) Duality concept: 4 b) Accounting conventions 5 QUESTION TWO: Clashing accounting concepts and conventions that might bring about inconsistency in the accounting process 9 1. Clash between
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Slide 1 ACCOUNTING THEORY & CONTEMORARY ISSUES (AT1) MODULE ONE Slide 2 ACCOUNTING UNDER IDEAL CONDITIONS Part 1 - Foundation items re the course Part 2 - Present value accounting under certainty Part 3 - Present value accounting under uncertainty Part 4 - Reserve recognition accounting Part 5 - Examination question examples Part 6 - Historical cost accounting Lecture by: Dr. A. L. Dartnell‚ FCGA Year 2009 - 2010 2 Slide 3 PART 1 Foundation Items re the Course Different Course
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Purchase Method of Accounting All business combinations must be accounted for by applying the purchase method. This involves 3 key steps: a) Identifying an acquirer‚ b) Measuring the cost of the business combinations and c) Allocating the cost of the business combination to the identifiable assets and liabilities acquired. a) Identifying the Acquirer The acquirer should be identified for all business combinations‚ The acquirer is the entity which obtains controls over the other entity‚ There
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COMMON ACCOUNTING SYSTEM INTRODUCTION 1. Most of the State Cooperative Societies Acts have provisions regarding preparation and submission of financial statements such as Balance Sheet‚ Profit and Loss Account and Trading Account of PACS. However‚ the formats for financial statements of PACS have not been prescribed in many States. The existing formats have evolved over a period of time on the basis of instructions from the RCS‚ Director of Audit‚ etc.‚ There is no uniformity and transparency in
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information for a statement of cash flows. Discuss special problems in preparing a statement of cash flows. Explain the use of a work sheet in preparing a statement of cash flows. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. Kieso‚ Intermediate Accounting‚ 13/e Instructor’s Manual (For Instructor Use Only) 23-1 CHAPTER REVIEW 1. Corporate investors and potential investors seek information about the financial position‚ results of operations‚ and cash flow. The required presentation of the
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Glasson Holding Ltd is a group of companies. Use the financial report to identify 3 companies in the group. The three companies are: Hallenstein Bros Limited Hallenstein Properties Limited Glassons Limited. Question 4: a) What is meant by the accounting term "consolidation"? Consolidation means combining two or more organizations fund‚ etc into one. b) Explain briefly how it will apply with the Hallenstein group of companies. This will apply with the Hallenstein group of companies because there
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Journal of Accounting and Economics 35 (2003) 347–376 Management of the loss reserve accrual and the distribution of earnings in the property-casualty insurance industry$ William H. Beaver‚ Maureen F. McNichols‚ Karen K. Nelson* Department of Accounting‚ Graduate School of Business‚ Stanford University‚ Stanford‚ CA 94305‚ USA Received 2 March 2002; received in revised form 14 January 2003; accepted 27 January 2003 Abstract We document that property-casualty insurers with small positive earnings
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Applicability of Accounting Standard (AS) 26‚ Intangible Assets‚ to intangible items 1. Accounting Standard (AS) 26‚ ‘Intangible Assets’‚ came into effect in respect of expenditure incurred on intangible items during accounting periods commencing on or after 1-4-2003 and is mandatory in nature from that date for the following: (i) Enterprises whose equity or debt securities are listed on a recognised stock exchange in India‚ and enterprises that are in the process of issuing equity or debt
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