Accounting Standard AASB117‚ Leases‚ was made by the Australian Accounting Standards Board on 15 July 2004 under the section 334 of the Corporations Act 2001. The objective of AASB117 is to prescribe appropriate accounting policies for the lessees and lessors in order to assist entities in classifying leases as operating or finance leases and disclosure to apply in relation to leases. AASB 117 includes economic life‚ fair value‚ finance leases‚ operating leases and also hire purchases contracts which
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RISE OF ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES The impact of accounting reports on decision making may be the most challenging accounting issue of the 1970s. by Stephen A. Zeff Since the 1960s‚ the American accounting profession has been aware of the increasing influence of "outside forces" in the standardsetting process. Two parallel developments have marked this trend. First‚ individuals and groups that had rarely shown any interest in the setting of accounting standards began to intervene actively and powerfully
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Statement of Financial Accounting Concepts No. 8 September 2010 Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting Chapter 1‚ The Objective of General Purpose Financial Reporting‚ and Chapter 3‚ Qualitative Characteristics of Useful Financial Information a replacement of FASB Concepts Statements No. 1 and No. 2 Copyright © 2010 by Financial Accounting Foundation. All rights reserved. Content copyrighted by Financial Accounting Foundation may not be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or
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speaking Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB)’s primary purpose is to develop General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). GAAP might not concern the whole areas of accounting criteria‚ FASB look up and adjust accounting standard to make sure standards have been updated to follow current situation. On July 31‚ 2012‚ FASB issued an Invitation to Comment‚ which reviewed key areas of the Private Company Decision-Making Framework - A Framework for Evaluating Financial Accounting and Reporting Guidance
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GENERAL ACCOUNTING SECTION 1530 comprehensive income PURPOSE AND SCOPE .01 This Section establishes standards for reporting and display of comprehensive income. It does not address issues of recognition or measurement for comprehensive income and its components. .02 This Section does not apply to not-for-profit organizations (see FINANCIAL STATEMENT PRESENTATION BY NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS‚ Section 4400). DEFINITIONS .03 The following terms are used in this Section with the meanings
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Financial Accounting Theory and Analysis 10e Chapter 1 - The Development of Accounting Theory What is Theory? Webster defines theory as “Systematically organized knowledge‚ applicable in a relatively wide variety of circumstances; a system of assumptions‚ accepted principles and rules of procedure to analyze‚ predict or otherwise explain the nature of behavior of a specified set of phenomena.” Why is the development of a general theory of accounting important? The development of a general
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Health Care Financial Accountin September 7‚ 2011 Ethical standards in financial reporting are essential. Tools have been set in place to ensure that this takes place. Some of these tools are agencies that have been established‚ elements of financial management‚ and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Several administrative agencies have been established to strive to create a more standardized and ethical standard within the financial practices. These agencies are the United States
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Preparing for international financial reporting standards Amanda Paul Troy University Eddy Burks Troy University ABSTRACT The accounting profession is on the precipice of one of the biggest changes to face it since the 1930s. In the very near future‚ there is a strong possibility that United States generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)‚ as it is known today‚ will cease to exist. In its place will be a global standard encompassed by the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
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compose of the nature of accounting issues‚ historical background of accounting rules in U.S. and IFRS‚ recognition and measurement rules‚ presentation and disclosure rules‚ and development along with the harmonization efforts of FASB and IASB. Before we start all of these‚ we would like to give a brief description how U.S. GAAP differ from IFRS and why we need both of them. The International Financial Reporting Standards are destined to be the language of the accounting world. This means that
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proposed a "Roadmap for Potential Use of Financial Statements Prepared in Accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS] by U.S. Issuers." The SEC road map detailed a process and a set of milestones by which certain larger public companies (those with a public float of at least $700 million) in the United States would transition from financial reporting based on U. S Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to that based on 3FRS beginning in 2014‚ with smaller public companies
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