REGULATIONS OF FINANCIAL REPORTING IN NIGERIA INTRODUCTION Regulation of accounting information is aimed at ensuring that users of financial statements receive a minimum amount of information that will enable them take meaningful decisions regarding their interest in a reporting entity. The bodies responsible for these regulations are often statutory agencies such as the Financial Reporting Council‚ Securities and Exchange Commission and the
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Substantive Audit Testing: Revenue Cycle 1. Substantive Audit Testing: Revenue Cycle 2. MULTIPLE CHOICE: 3. 1. Which of the following might be detected by an auditor’s review of the client’s sales cut-off? 4. a. Excessive goods returned for credit. 5. b. Unrecorded sales discounts. c. Lapping of year end accounts receivable. d. Inflated sales for the year. 6. ANSWER: D 7. 2. Which of the following forms of evidence represents the most competent evidence that a receivable actually exists? 8. a. A
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Marginal Revenue and Marginal Cost An understanding of marginal revenue and marginal cost is economically crucial to owning and operating a successful business. Marginal revenue is the amount of change in total revenue by selling one additional product. So if a company sells four extra unit of product and brings extra total revenue of 500 dollars than the marginal revenue for this month would be 125 dollars. This is found by taking the change in total revenue‚ 500 dollars‚ and dividing it by the
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Unearned revenues are revenues that are received before the company delivers goods or provides services. Some industries that have unearned revenues would include magazine publishers as they only receive checks from customers once the magazine is ordered. Until then the company awaits payment and does not have this in advance. Another company would be airlines because they receive cash once the tickets are sold for future flights. Unearned revenue is used by any company that accepts payments or deposits
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need to have access to an integral platform‚ which can smooth and speed the interaction among them as well as with the organization where they coincide. 4. Product Usage: Customers who want to differentiate themselves from other groups by acquiring state-of-the-art customized tools. Summing up the aforementioned approaches‚ the following chart pictures the Customer Segments to which is the App Business Model offered: 1. Heriot-Watt University: It is the main customer
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IASB and FASB release revenue recognition exposure draft What is the issue? On June 24th‚ the FASB and IASB issued an exposure draft proposing a new revenue recognition model that could fundamentally alter the way entities across a variety of industries recognise revenue. The proposal is an output of the boards’ joint efforts to develop a converged revenue recognition standard based on the same principles. A key objective is to increase the consistency of revenue recognition for similar contracts
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Bureau of Internal Revenue (Philippines) The Bureau of Internal Revenue (Filipino: Kawanihan ng Rentas Internas‚ or BIR) is an attached agency of Department of Finance. BIR collects more than one-half of the total revenues of the government. Functions The powers and duties of the Bureau of Internal Revenue are: Assessment and collection of all internal revenue taxes‚ fees and charges; and enforcement of all forfeitures‚ penalties‚ and fines connected therewith‚ including the execution of judgments
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Economics of Baseball: Revenue Sharing Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada. The organization is comprised of a partnership between the National League‚ founded in 1876‚ and the American League‚ founded in 1901. There are currently 30 teams in Major League Baseball‚ 14 in the American League and 16 in the National League. "Since 1903‚ the best of both of these leagues have met in the World Series‚ with the winner of the best-of-7
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3.6 Revenue recognition with examples when goods are sold under sale or return There are cases when payments are received prior to events that trigger revenue recognition. In that case‚ cash is debited and the unearned revenue is credited. On the other hand‚ when revenue recognition is triggered before actual payment is received‚ accounts receivable is debited while revenue is credited (“Revenue Recognition Principle‚” 2013). Goods are sold under sale or return when they are “sent by the supplier
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Cash-strapped Peugeot Automobile Nigeria‚ has said that it will soon commence importation of used cars into the country in a move to shore up its revenue profile. The company’s Managing Director‚ Dr. Haroun Aliyu‚ said at a news conference held at the ongoing Kaduna International Trade Fair that since Nigeria has a large market for second hand vehicles‚ there was nothing wrong if PAN imported and certified such vehicles for the use of Nigerians. Justifying the company’s new direction‚ the PAN boss
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