Client Clarification Memo Sammy Shelton ACC/541 – Accounting Theory and Research July 23‚ 2011 Memo To: Client From: Team B Date: August 6‚ 2012 Re: The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) defines a contingency as a possible future event that will have some impact on the firm. The decision to report contingencies should be based on the principle of disclosure. Namely‚ when the disclosure of an event adds to the information content of financial statements‚ it should be reported
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Apple Inc. THE COMPANY Our analysis of Apple Inc. will incorporate the general overview of the company and how it records it revenues. We will observe how they make an honest effort to be within compliance of all accounting standards according to the Financial Accounting Standards Board for recording and disclosure of its income. Apple’s leading competitor‚ Google Inc.‚ will also be examined to see whether they are comparable to Apple and still within compliance of the Securities and Exchange Commission
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sentenced to 10 years. He had moved company cash into his personal bank account. Some of this was used to buy Polly Peck shares to keep the price up. In 2002 the accounting disciplinary body‚ the Joint Disciplinary Tribunal‚ fined Stoy Hayward £75‚000 for its role as group auditor to Polly Peck. Erdal & Co‚ the north Cypriot accounting firm was also fined for its audit of the north Cypriot subsidiaries of Polly Peck in 1988 and 1999. 2. Enron 2001 Massive fraud. AA helped to set up off balance
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The Governmental Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Standards Boards were put in place to assist in regulating the private sector‚ federal‚ and state and local governments. These regulations that are in place are to hold he sector accountable for its accurate financial reporting and documentation. I ask how these two divisions differ in its objectives and how to they regulate each party it governs. The Governmental Accounting Standards Board oversees the federal‚ state
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FAIR VALUE ACCOUNTING AND THE MANAGEMENT OF THE FIRM * Benzion Barlev‚ ‚ * Joshua Rene Haddad * Department of Accounting‚ School of Business Administration‚ Hebrew University of Jerusalem‚ Jerusalem‚ Israel Received 15 October 2001 Accepted 20 April 2002 Available online 26 September 2002 * http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1045-2354(02)00139-9‚ How to Cite or Link Using DOI * Permissions & Reprints Abstract The development of accounting standards reveals that the historical
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2. How are investments reflected in the statements of not-for-profits? 3. What are the disclosure requirements for not-for-profits as related to investments? Business - Accounting ACC 460 Week 1 Individual Assignment Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) and Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Analysis Paper ACC 460 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ch. 1‚ 2‚ 3 Textbook Exercises ACC 460 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment CAFR Budget Analysis ACC 460
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9 2.6 Further testing 11 3. International differences in the effects of asymmetric timeliness on earnings 11 3.1 Common-law versus code-law countries 11 3.1.1 Classification-differences of bad news as a bias to measured conservatism 13 4. Conservatism and its impact on earnings quality 13 4.1. The significance of conservatism in different context settings 13 4.1.1. Uncoditional versus conditional conservatism 14 4.1.2. Non-contracting benefits of conservative accounting 14 4.1.3. Contracting benefits
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view‚ a set of accounting standards as part of accounting systems is continuously influenced by several differing institutional factors where that set of standards operates. These factors include culture (e.g. in regards to the implementation of IFRS in the Arab world‚ it could be complicated to harmonize accounting standards to those of western civilizations- Sanchez (2015))‚ enterprise ownership and activities‚ finance and capital markets‚ economic growth and development‚ accounting regulation‚ legal
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and what types of items are located under each content area. FASB Codification System is a database and research system developed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board that pulls together many of the authoritative resources about accounting standards into a single‚ searchable system. The purpose of this system is to better organize accounting principles and laws to simplify user access. The nine content areas located in the system include Presentation‚ Assets‚ Liabilities‚ Equity‚ Revenue
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From: Team A Date: September 13‚ 2010 Subject: Share-based payment reporting and special purpose entities reporting December 16‚ 2004 the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement 123‚ Shared- Based Statement‚ which took the place of Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation and replaced Accounting Principal Board Opinion No. 25 Accounting for Stock issued to Employees. Share-based payment is “a transaction in which the entity receives or acquires goods or services either as consideration
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