Running Head: ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARDS PAPER Accounting Standards Boards Paper Lila Alemar ACC 541 Shauki Smith May 24‚ 2010 History of the relationship between IASB and FASB The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) began operations in 2001. It is an organization committed to developing‚ in the public interest‚ a single set of high quality‚ global accounting standards that require transparent and comparable information in general purpose financial
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7101AFE Financial Accounting Theory and Practice Tutorial Questions for Tutorials 1- 6: Semester 1 2015 TUTORIAL 1 - Semester 1 2015 Deegan Topic 1: Introduction to financial accounting theory QUESTION 1 – Question 1.2: If you developed a theory to explain how a person’s cultural background influences how they prepare financial statements‚ would you have developed a positive theory or a normative theory? The first of all‚ it is important to understand the mean by a ‘theory’. According to Contemporary
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share some similarities in their accounting systems. Being strongly influenced by the individualism culture‚ both countries exercise a high level of professionalism among accountants. There is a common tendency to follow accounting standards bodies in both countries. In the UK this would be the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) which helps to set the Financial Reporting standards (FRS) used in the UK‚ whereas in the Netherlands the Dutch Generally Accepted Accounting Polices (GAAP) are provided by the
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Learning Log Week -2 Lecture: In this lecture I had the understanding‚ why accounting bodies are so heavily regulated by the government. After the corporate collapse‚ accounting body lost the trust of public. Our work was not transparent and therefore‚ was no longer reliable. Regulator body such as ASIC‚ AASB‚ FRC and ASX are formed after the corporate collapse. ASIC is the corporate ‘watch dog’ who monitors FRC‚ AASB and office of AASB. Why we need regulation? Because it is human nature to
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Essential link in objectives of business -----‘Accounting is dubbed “language” of business activities conducted by firms as it is used to communicate business transactions per se to all stakeholders’ According to Weygand‚ Kieso and Kimmel (2012‚ p.4)‚ the main purpose of accounting is consists of three basic activities‚ identifying‚ recording and communicating the business events by users. These three activities help the firm to operate the business to make decision
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Acknowledgement I would like to pay my sincere thanks to‚ University of Delhi‚ South Campus for endowing me with the precious insights needed for working out this Project. He has been very instrumental in communicating the core of this project study and thus without his direction‚ the very inception of this work would not have been possible. Q1. Whether a country’s capital market is debt –oriented or equity oriented has a significant impact on the financial reporting that develops in the
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Chapter 5: Cost Behavior: Analysis and Use As we shall see in later chapters‚ the ability to predict how costs respond to changes in activity is critical for making decisions‚ controlling operations‚ and evaluating performance. Three major classifications of costs were discussed in this chapter—variable‚ fixed‚ and mixed. Mixed costs consist of variable and fixed elements and can be expressed in equation form as Y = a + bX‚ where X is the activity‚ Y is the cost‚ a is the fixed cost element‚ and
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Exercise 11-1 (10 minutes) 1. 2. 3. Exercise 11-2 (10 minutes) Average operating assets £2‚200‚000 Net operating income £400‚000 Minimum required return: 16% × £2‚200‚000 352‚000 Residual income £ 48‚000 Exercise 11-3 (20 minutes) 1. Throughput time = Process time + Inspection time + Move time + Queue time = 2.8 days + 0.5 days + 0.7 days + 4.0 days = 8.0 days 2. Only process time is value-added time; therefore the manufacturing cycle efficiency
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a tradition of common law (UK)‚ specific accounting rules are established by the profession or by an independent nongovernmental body representing a variety of constituencies. Thus‚ the type of legal system in a country tends to determine whether the primary source of accounting rules is the government or a nongovernmental organization. Code Law: the accounting law tends to be rather general and does not provide much detail regarding specific accounting practices and may provide no guidance at all
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the total cost of borrowing over the life of the bond. (4) Would the total bond interest expense be greater than‚ the same as‚ or less than the total interest expense that would be reported if the straight-line method of amortization were used? SOLUTION (a) (1) 2010 July 1 Cash 3‚501‚514 Discount on Bonds Payable 498‚486 Bonds Payable 4‚000‚000 (2) Dec. 31 Bond Interest Expense ($3‚501‚514 X 5%) 175‚076 Discount on Bonds Payable 15‚076
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