European Accounting Review Vol. 19‚ No. 3‚ 461– 493‚ 2010 Fair Value or Cost Model? Drivers of Choice for IAS 40 in the Real Estate Industry A. QUAGLI∗ and F. AVALLONE∗∗ ∗ Department of Accounting and Business Studies (DITEA)‚ University of Genova‚ Genova‚ Italy and ∗ ∗ Department of Computer and Management Science (DISA)‚ University of Trento‚ Trento‚ Italy (Received September 2008; accepted February 2010) ABSTRACT The IFRS mandatory adoption in European countries is an excellent
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Case 11-2(b) Fair Value Disclosures Case 11-2(b) is an extension of Case 11-2(a). For this case‚ assume that the Case 11-2(a) facts remain‚ with the exception of the additional assumptions listed below for each security. As stated in Case 11-2(a)‚ Family Finance Co. (FFC) accounts for its investments at fair value‚ with changes in fair value reflected either in earnings (for trading securities) or other comprehensive income (OCI) (for available-for-sale (AFS) securities). 1 Because FFC uses
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Fair value accounting Type of accounting that companies measure & report certain assets and liabilities at prices the company would receive if they sold them and liabilities are reported at the value the company would receive if they were relieved of them. The purpose of this method is for creating realistic financial statements. Advantages of Fair Value Accounting Reduced Net Income when values of assets decrease‚ the company’s calculated net income decreases. lower net income results in
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Many of the characters in the poem‚ the Swedish and Danish royal family members‚ correspond to actual historical figures. Originally pagan warriors‚ the Anglo-Saxon‚ and Scandinavian invaders experienced a large-scale conversion to Christianity at the end of the sixth century. Though still an old pagan story‚ Beowulf came to be told by Christian poets. This poem has hidden historical values of the fifth‚ eighth‚ and twelfth centuries. Beowulf is a significant part of English literature‚ molded
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INTRODUCTION Realised-profit‚ matching-based‚ historical cost accruals accounting (HCA) has for over fifty years been repeatedly challenged as being an inadequate basis for the measurement of "income" which reports increments in the value of businesses. Such challenges continue unabated and are made by both accounting standards regulators and by academic commentators. Despite its obvious deficiencies for measuring valuation based income‚ and subject to concept of prudence‚ internationally HCA remains
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Fin Aff 2013‚ 2:1 http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2167-0234.1000108 Open Access A Fair Value and Hedge Activities Doan Van Dinh1* and Guangming Gong2 1 2 College of Economics and Trade Management of Hunan University‚ China and Faculty of Finance and Banking of the Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City‚ Vietnam Business school Hunan University in China Abstract This article‚ author consider the fair value of financial instruments whether it is appropriate for economic development and the
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2010—Pages 93–118 Did Fair-Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis? Christian Laux and Christian Leuz I n its pure form‚ fair-value accounting involves reporting assets and liabilities on the balance sheet at fair value and recognizing changes in fair value as gains and losses in the income statement. When market prices are used to determine fair value‚ fair-value accounting is also called mark-to-market accounting. Some critics argue that fair-value accounting exacerbated the
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Why is IFRS so strong in using Fair Value instead of Historical Cost for its valuations of Property‚ Plant and Equipment? IFRS defines Fair value as the amount for which an asset could be exchanged or a liability settled between knowledgeable willing parties in an arms length transaction. Whereas Historical cost ignores the amount the asset could be sold for in the open market‚ called fair value‚ until the asset is actually sold. For Historical Cost the company carries the asset on the balance
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a. Current Liabilities b. Part of Accounts Payable c. Long-term Liabilities d. Reduction from accounts 4. Which of the following is not an acceptable lasts for valuation of inventory? a. Historical Cost b. Current replacement cost c. Prime cost d. Current selling price less cost of disposal 5. Capetown Company began operation on Jan. 1‚ 2011 Capetown has found that its estimated bad debt expense has been consistently higher than actual bad debts. Management proposes lowering
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Criticism on historical cost accounting 1. Inability to provide useful information in times of rising prices * Assumes that money holds a constant purchasing power‚ so the result become irrelevance in times of rising prices * Received much criticism during high inflation periods of 1970s and 1980s. * Obvious flaw in time of rising prices. 2. Real problem of additivity * Some countries allowed revaluation of non-current assets and the different assets are revaluing
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