The historical cost accounting is an accounting technique that values an asset for balance sheet purposes at the price paid for the asset at the time of its acquisition. It is usually used in combination with other measurement bases. For example‚ inventories are usually carried at the lower of cost and net realizable value‚ on the other hand marketable securities are usually carried at market value‚ and entities prefer to carry pension liabilities at their present value. The main advantage of using
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Qualitative Characteristics of Accounting Information Business owners can use accounting information to conduct a financial analysis of their companies’ operations. Accounting information often has quantitative and qualitative characteristics. Quantitative characteristics refer to the calculation of financial transactions. Qualitative characteristics include the business owner’s perceived importance of financial information. Business owners often require financial information
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Qualitative Characteristics of Accounting Information Qualitative characteristics are the attributes that make the information provided in financial statements useful to users. The four principal qualitative characteristics are understandability‚ relevance‚ reliability and comparability. It is also pointed out that these qualitative characteristics may need to be balanced against one another. (John Wiley& Sons Australia‚ Ltd‚ 2009) The relative importance of the characteristics in different cases
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Information Qualitative Characteristics Gap: Evidence from Jordan Ahmad N. Obaidat Tafila Technical University‚ Tafila‚ Jordan [Abstract] The general objective of financial reporting is to provide useful information to present and potential investors‚ creditors‚ and others to help them make investment‚ credit‚ and other decisions. The purpose of this paper is to find out whether there is an existing gap concerning the importance of accounting information qualitative characteristics from investors`
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4 PRINCIPAL OF QUALITATIVE CHARACTERISTIC Understandability An essential quality of the information provided in financial statements is that it is readily understandable by users. For this purpose‚ users are assumed to have a reasonable knowledge of business and economic activities and accounting and a willingness to study the information with reasonable diligence. However‚ information about complex matters that should be included in the financial statements because of its relevance to the economic
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Historical cost is a traditional method of recording assets and liabilities at their original or nominal value without making adjustments for inflation. It first came in evidence in Jun 1979 in a French project after numerous debates. The historical cost principle states that the asset should include all cost necessary to get the asset in place and ready for use. The principle of historical cost is based upon two fundamental principles: the principle of monetary standardization and principle of
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What is included in the cost basis of a long- lived asset? Explain for a least two types of such assets. Add the original price of your investment and any transaction costs. For example‚ if you buy 100 shares of stock at $10 per share and pay a $20 broker’s commission‚ your purchase expense totals $1‚020. Disregard dividends or other income you receive as cash while you own the investment. Dividends or interest are classified (and taxed) by the Internal Revenue Service as ordinary income and
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However‚ the historical cost accounting still widely and continuously to be used by most companies in their accounting. Conversely‚ reporting current cost in accounting are recommended rather than historical cost as it is the fair value reported in the current year would be beneficial to the firm and the shareholders of the company. 2.0 Historical Cost Accounting and Benefits of Current Cost 2.1 Introduction to Historical Cost‚ Disadvantages and Advantages of Historical Cost The historical cost accounting
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Abstract This paper is written for the accounting theory course as a course project. This paper discusses the differences between the historical cost accounting approach and the fair value accounting approach. The discussion will focus on the debate on using which accounting approach. We begin by stating the definitions of both concepts and discussing them thoroughly‚ then we state the main advantages of the two approaches followed by comparison between them. The last section of this paper discusses
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Qualitative Characteristics of Useful Financial Information The purpose of financial reporting is to provide decision makers with useful information. When accounting choices are to be made by individuals‚ those choices should be based upon the usefulness of that information to the decision making process. The Framework identifies six qualitative characteristics of financial statements as follows:- • relevance; • faithful representation; • comparability; • verifiability; • timeliness; and
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