IFRS – One World One Accounting Introduction to IFRS Currently‚ more than 100 countries requires or adopt IFRS and it is expected that by 2012‚ more than 150 countries will adopt IFRS. India has also taken the step towards convergence of Indian Accounting Standards with IFRS. This article details the need for harmonization of local GAAP with IFRS‚ challenges for Corporate India etc. 1. Importance of Accounting Standards 2. Accounting Standards Across the world 3. Need of Harmonization
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during an accounting period in monetary terms. These business activities vary from one enterprise to other. To compare the financial statements of various reporting enterprises poses some difficulties because of the divergence in the methods and principles adopted by these enterprises in preparing their financial statements. In order to make these methods and principles uniform and comparable to the extent possible – standards are evolved.What are Accounting Standards? Accounting Standards are the
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Wilkerson Company 1. What is the competitive situation faced by Wilkerson? The critical product in term of market competition is the pumps of Wilkerson Company. The pumps are Wilkersons major product line with a production of about 12‚500 units per month. Pumps currently have the lowest gross margin among all products‚ because competitors had been reducing prices on pumps and Wilkerson adopted its prices in order to remain competitive and to maintain the volume. 2. Given some apparent problems with
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COST ACCOUNTING-MMS FORMAT OF COST SHEET Opening stock of Raw Material XX Add: Raw material purchased XX Less: Closing Stock of Raw Material XX Raw Material Consumed ZZ Direct Labor XX Direct Expenses. XX PRIME COST ZZ Add: Factory Overheads: Indirect Material XX Indirect Labor XX Indirect Expenses XX GROSS WORKS COST/FACTORY COST ZZ Add: Opening WIP XX Less: Closing WIP XX COST OF GOODS MANUFACTURED
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LABOUR COST ACCOUNTING. It is concerned with identifying the amount of labour costs to be changed to jobs and overhead accounts. Where a manufacturing organization operates a job costing system‚ information on the labour costs should be properly captured from the following documents:- i) Job Cards: This is open for each job‚ when the job is started‚ the time of starting is entered on the job card and when it is completed‚ the completion time is also entered. The difference between the two
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Accounting has been around since the beginning of civilization. ¡§Accountants participated in the development of cities‚ trade‚ and the concepts of wealth and numbers.¡¨ (Giroux) The importance of accounting cannot be overemphasized. Equally important are the standards used to guild the application of accounting practice. Without principles and standards‚ financial reporting would not fairly present the financial position of a company. Accounting has changed and evolved vastly over time and continues
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PROJECT ON ACCOUNTING STANDARDS 1. ACCOUNTING STANDARD 16 2. ACCOUNTING STANDARD 21 SUBMITTED TO: PROF. T.K. NAGPAL SUBMITTED BY: VARUN FN3 FN2 Accounting Standard (AS) 16 (issued
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.......................... TUTORIAL DAY & TIME........………................... TUTOR’S FULL NAME......................................... Test 1 – Version 2 Session 2‚ 2012 Course Code: ACCG 224 Course Name: INTERMEDIATE FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING Time allowed: 55 minutes plus 5 minutes reading time Total No. of questions: Three Questions Instructions 1. You must answer ALL questions in the test booklet. No separate booklet will be provided to answer the questions. 2. This is
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spreading its wings and India is not the exception. In India IFRS is being implemented in phased manner. Till now it has been made mandatory for some specific group of listed companies. Although many countries of the world have been benefitted after implementing IFRS‚ it is both threat and opportunity for India. Indian companies have various challenges and issues to implement IFRS. The biggest challenge in India is to harmonize IFRS with respect to existing laws and regulations. Proper implementation
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additional costs incurred. Actual variable costs increased from $218 to $247.50‚ causing an unfavourable flexible-budget variable cost variance of $59 457. The next section‚ 3.2 Variable and Fixed Variance Analysis‚ will look into the specific causes of this increased in cost and resources consumed. Understanding the reasons why actual results differ from budgeted amounts can help Barnes better manage its costs and pricing decisions in the future. If Barnes have not been able to pass these costs on to
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