................................................ 22 Accounting changes and prior period adjustments ............................................................ 24 4. Comprehensive income ................................................................................................ 31 5. Balance sheet and disclosures overview .......................................................................... 36 6. Interim financial reporting ..........................................
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Criticism on historical cost accounting 1. Inability to provide useful information in times of rising prices * Assumes that money holds a constant purchasing power‚ so the result become irrelevance in times of rising prices * Received much criticism during high inflation periods of 1970s and 1980s. * Obvious flaw in time of rising prices. 2. Real problem of additivity * Some countries allowed revaluation of non-current assets and the different assets are revaluing
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Accounting System Controls In accounting systems‚ certain controls are needed to ensure that employees are doing their jobs properly and ensure that the system runs properly. These checks are in the best interest of the organization. These controls come in the form of internal and external controls for the system. The internal controls are the checks that are placed in the system my the company ’s own management and directors. Today more and more companies are moving from the manual accounting
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economic development whose healthy progressing relies on its management levels. I will describe the role and importance of the application of strategic management accounting in public and not-for-profit sectors and analyzes its conceptions and methods‚ combining with its management characteristics. 1. The role and importance of the application of strategic management accounting in public and not-for-profit sectors Strategic management accounting is the need of public and not-for-profit sectors effectively
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CHAPTER 1 MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING: INFORMATION FOR CREATING VALUE AND MANAGING RESOURCES ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 1.1 There are several possible answers to the question. QANTAS‚ the national airline of Australia‚ has faced a number of changes to the business environment in recent years‚ including deregulation of the domestic aviation industry. This resulted in increased competition as new firms attempted to enter the industry. The most notable of these was two failed attempts by Compass to succeed
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International Management Review Vol. 3 No. 2 2007 Accounting 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
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HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING LEARNING OUTCOMES Understand the history of accounting dating from prehistoric times to written record keeping. Identify the seven preconditions for the emergence of systematic book keeping. Know Luca Pacioll contributions in introducing double entry book keeping. Accounting is a tool‚ invented by humankind‚ to fulfill needs of society. Unlike the explorers of the past who discovered new lands‚ accounting cannot in any true sense be said to have been discovered
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Safety is also very important of the quality of a product. The things you sell to consumers must also be safe‚ and not just for legal reasons. If you are in the food industry and you sell rotten food to a customer‚ it can lead to issues for that person. Similarly‚ if you sell an electronics device that has not passed safety inspections‚ it can lead to safety issues for the consumer‚ like an electrical fire or shock. Malfunctioning or unsafe products are a threat in almost every industry‚ and could
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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 when making business
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In accounting literature‚ the notion of conservatism is to employ a less optimistic attitude towards handling accounting transactions or events when varied alternatives are present. The basic implication of the convention was traditionally to anticipate not profits but all losses. Therefore‚ a series of accounting procedures based on conservatism have been developed to account for provisional expenses and potential losses in accounting practice‚ such as allowances for doubtful accounts‚ reserves
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