CHAPTER 1 Accounting—Present and Past CHAPTER OUTLINE: I. What Is Accounting? A. Definition B. Uses of Accounting Information C. Classifications 1. Financial Accounting 2. Managerial Accounting / Cost Accounting 3. Auditing — Public Accounting 4. Internal Auditing 5. Governmental and Not-for-Profit Accounting 6. Income Tax Accounting II. How Has Accounting Developed? A. Early History B. The Accounting Profession in the United States C. Financial Accounting Standard
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financial statements The International Financial Reporting Standards or better known as IFRS‚ are generally principal-based standards‚ interpretations‚ and framework which is taken up by the International Accounting Standard Board (IASB) (Accounting Standards‚ 1997). The IFRS financial statements include the presentation of a set of statement of financial position‚ an income statement‚ a statement of cash flows and a statement of changes in equity. Information that are presented in
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2005 onwards. The IASB – International Accounting Standards Board‚ (Formerly IASC)‚ issued its Framework for the Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements in 1989. This is referred to as its conceptual framework. The framework sets out the concepts that shape the preparation and presentation of financial statements for external users. The framework does not have the status of an accounting standard‚ as also is the case with the ASB’s Statement of Principles. The IASB framework assists
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are recognized in financial statements. The project is planned to provide the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and national standard setters with a sound conceptual basis for: (a) Revising and expanding the measurement aspects of their conceptual frameworks‚ and (b) Improving the measurement requirements of their financial reporting standards. . Although the IASB has not yet on purpose the issues in the Discussion Paper‚ it has made tentative Decision’s in another project that addresses
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OVERVIEW Accounting is the language of business. As such‚ accountants collect and communicate economic information about business enterprises or other entities to a wide variety of persons. To be useful‚ financial statements must be clearly understandable and comparable so that users may compare the performance of one business with the performance of the same business for a prior period or with the performance of another similar business. Therefore‚ all general purpose financial statements should
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Issues With Revenue Recognition within the Software Industry The Isoft Example Financial Controller-SoftWarehouse Ltd This report has been prepared for the Board of Directors of SoftWarehouse Ltd for elucidation about the contentious issues that have given rise to the publication of the article concerning Isoft’s issues with revenue recognition. Finally‚ it will also assess whether or not these issues are likely to affect SoftWarehouse Ltd. TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary: 3
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Reporting Practices and Ethics Paper HCS/405 November 23‚ 2011 Reporting Practices and Ethics Paper This paper discusses the elements of financial management that is important to the healthcare organizations‚ generally accepted accounting principles‚ and a summary of the articles related to healthcare financial management. Elements of Financial Management There are four different elements used in financial management. These elements include: planning‚ controlling‚ organizing and directing
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Exposure Draft 242: Leases Introduction The Exposure Draft (ED) on leases is dissected to prove its ability to provide useful information to the user. This essay will firstly describe the objectives and the three key issues‚ which are lessee accounting‚ presentation of statements and disclosure. Secondly‚ it will analyse how the changes in new ED affect users and provides useful information in terms of those three issues. Lastly‚ a conclusion will be drawn to summarise and restate the topics. Objectives
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are practiced in the United States. GAAP is considered more of a rule based accounting practice while IFRS are based much on the accounting principles. IFRS are developed by IASB (International Accounting Standards Board) while GAAP are developed by FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board) (Bellandi 2012). The IASB and the FASB are working hard together attempting to establish standards leading to the "elimination of significant differences in the way certain transactions are accounted for and reported"
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of this ongoing and complex cooperative effort‚ there is currently a joint project between the FASB and the IASB to develop a common measurement and reporting structure for fair value accounting (Metzger‚ n.d.). Fair value accounting has been around for many years and has been used for many asset and liability accounts. Due to the expanding use and misuse of financial reporting‚ the FASB and the IASB have worked to implement a common approach. The first step is disclosure of fair value information
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