Intermediate Accounting Project Assignment #1 AIA2-1 (Financial Reporting Issues: The Procter & Gamble Company) a) Proctor and Gamble’s revenue recognition policies state that the customer recognizes revenue upon either date of shipment or date of receipt; e.g. when the product or receipt has switched hands. They also record revenue net of sales‚ trade promotion spending‚ and other taxes on behalf of governmental authorities. All of these transactions are generally recorded at time of
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Chapter 1 BE1-1 Briefly define accounting. What are the three main characteristics of accounting? Is accounting static or dynamic? Accounting collects‚ analyzes‚ measures and records financial information about an organization and reports that information to stakeholders and decision makers. Accounting has 3 essential characteristics. Accounting is the (1) identification‚ measurement‚ and communication of financial information about economic entities to interested persons. Like social
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b 8. Common set of standards and procedures. c 9. Role of SEC. c 10. Powers of the SEC. d 11. SEC enforcement. d 12. Creation of FASB. d 13. Appointment of FASB members. a 14. Purpose of the Financial Accounting Foundation. b 15. Characteristics of FASB. b 16. FASB and "due process" system. b 17. Publications of FASB. c 18. Purpose of FASB Technical Bulletins. d 19. Purpose of Emerging Issues Task Force. b 20. Purpose of GASB. c 21. Domain of GASB. c 22. Standard setting
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position of an entity. However‚ accounting measurement issues are seen to be problematic as many measurements are derived. According to Mary E. Barth (2007)‚ an analysis regarding the latest activities of the International Accounting Standard Board (IASB) have revealed that the use of fair value as a measurement base in financial accounting is probable to increase. With the increased probability of using fair value as a measurement base and the adoption of international accounting standards by Australia
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Dennis Business School Oxford Brookes University Abstract The paper examines the nature and role of a conceptual framework for financial reporting. Although much has been written about such frameworks and their purported role and the FASB and IASB are currently revising and converging their frameworks there are still questions about the kind of thing it is and how it is used in setting accounting standards. Using insights from the philosophical literature this paper considers the nature
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Chapter One Introduction to International Accounting Learning Objective 1. Understand the nature and scope of international accounting. 2. Describe accounting issues created by international trade. 3. Explain reasons for‚ and accounting issues associated with‚ foreign direct investment (FDI). 4. Describe the practice of cross-listing on foreign stock exchanges. 5. Explain the notion of global accounting standards. 6. Examine the importance of international trade‚ FDI‚ and
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In the United States they have their own conceptual framework; they have not adopted either IFRSs or the IASB Framework. Both the IASB and the US Conceptual Frameworks are considered to have shortcomings. As a result‚ the IASB and FASB are jointly developing a revised conceptual framework. A revised conceptual framework is also necessary because of the joint efforts of the IASB and FASB to converge their accounting standards‚ with uniform accounting standards there is also a need to have a uniform
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Laux; Shiva Rajgopal; George Vrana. Summary: FASB organizes the discussion of these conditions: users of financial reports‚ primary use of financial statements- management and investment decisions‚ cash flow as the objective of financial reporting‚ limitations of external financial reporting‚ relevance and trustworthiness‚ auditing and trustworthy numbers‚ conservatism bias‚ balance-sheet and income-statement approach‚ and the function of the FASB/ IASB. For example‚ the use of financial statements
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Comprehensive Income: Presentation of Comprehensive Income was issued to increase the importance of items reported in other comprehensive income. The FASB‚ along with IASB‚ worked jointly to improve and converge the reporting and presentation requirements for items contained in other comprehensive income. At the same time FASB issued ASU 2011-05‚ IASB issued an amendment to IAS 1‚ Presentation of Financial Statements‚ which implemented the same reporting and presentation requirements as FASB’s new
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Users of financial accounting statements have both coinciding and conflicting needs for information of various types. 8. The Securities and Exchange Commission appointed the Committee on Accounting Procedure. 9. The passage of a new FASB Standards Statement requires the support of five of the seven board members. 10. Financial Accounting Concepts set forth fundamental objectives and concepts that are used in developing future standards of financial accounting and reporting.
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