Information Qualitative Characteristics Gap: Evidence from Jordan Ahmad N. Obaidat Tafila Technical University‚ Tafila‚ Jordan [Abstract] The general objective of financial reporting is to provide useful information to present and potential investors‚ creditors‚ and others to help them make investment‚ credit‚ and other decisions. The purpose of this paper is to find out whether there is an existing gap concerning the importance of accounting information qualitative characteristics from investors`
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Qualitative Characteristics of Accounting Information Qualitative characteristics are the attributes that make the information provided in financial statements useful to users. The four principal qualitative characteristics are understandability‚ relevance‚ reliability and comparability. It is also pointed out that these qualitative characteristics may need to be balanced against one another. (John Wiley& Sons Australia‚ Ltd‚ 2009) The relative importance of the characteristics in different cases
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Qualitative Characteristics of Accounting Information Business owners can use accounting information to conduct a financial analysis of their companies’ operations. Accounting information often has quantitative and qualitative characteristics. Quantitative characteristics refer to the calculation of financial transactions. Qualitative characteristics include the business owner’s perceived importance of financial information. Business owners often require financial information
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4 PRINCIPAL OF QUALITATIVE CHARACTERISTIC Understandability An essential quality of the information provided in financial statements is that it is readily understandable by users. For this purpose‚ users are assumed to have a reasonable knowledge of business and economic activities and accounting and a willingness to study the information with reasonable diligence. However‚ information about complex matters that should be included in the financial statements because of its relevance to the economic
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Qualitative Characteristics of Useful Financial Information The purpose of financial reporting is to provide decision makers with useful information. When accounting choices are to be made by individuals‚ those choices should be based upon the usefulness of that information to the decision making process. The Framework identifies six qualitative characteristics of financial statements as follows:- • relevance; • faithful representation; • comparability; • verifiability; • timeliness; and
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TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENT PAGE NUMBER INTRODUCTION 3-4 EXTERNAL USERS 4-5 FEEDBACK VALUES CHARACTERISTICS 6-7 FORECAST VALUES CHARACTERISTICS 7-9 SUMMARY 9-10 REFERENCES 11 Introduction Bursa Malaysia was in the beginning started as the Singapore Stockbrokers’ Association back in the year 1930. For Malaysia‚ it is the first official securities business organization
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INTRODUCTION A Shareholders’ Agreement is an agreement amongst the shareholders of a company. When a company is created‚ its founding shareholders determine how a company will be owned and managed. The Shareholders’ Agreement establishes rules to govern the relationship between two or more owners of a company. Without a shareholders’ agreement in place‚ the rules that apply are in the applicable corporate statute. The shareholders’ agreement creates an overlay that addresses issues created or left
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STAKEHOLDER vs. SHAREHOLDER The central objective of the firm and its managers is making optimal tradeoffs and that of value maximization‚ i.e. maximizing total market value of the firm. There are two theories proposed to achieve the firm’s objective which are the ‘Stakeholder Theory’ and ‘Shareholder Theory’. “Stakeholder Theory” assumes that values are necessarily and explicitly a part of doing business and the manager needs to take into account the interest of all the stakeholders while taking
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private placement of shares as compared with a public issue. (1 mark) 3. The shareholders of Quinninup Ltd hold 25 000 A class ordinary shares‚ fully paid at $4.50 each. On 17 April 2012‚ the company directors voted to make a 1 for 5 rights offer to these shareholders. The additional shares were offered at $1.75 each‚ payable in full one month after acceptance. The offer closed on 31 May 2012 with 90% of the shareholders accepting. Shares were duly allotted on that date and all monies were received
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person becomes a shareholder and owner of the corporation. Shareholder and corporations are liable. THE LIMITED LIABILITY OF SHAREHOLDER One of the key advantages of the corporate forms is the limited liability of its owners. Corporate shareholders normally are not personally liable for the obligations of the corporation beyond the extent of their investments. CORPORATE TAXATION Corporate profits are taxed‚ and do not receives tax deduction for dividends distributed to shareholders. Profits that
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