Report: Where does the US stand on the adoption of IFRS? - 2012 Abstract The globalization of markets over the past 50 years has led to the demand for increasingly comparable financial statements across countries. In response to this demand‚ the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) was formed with the purpose of developing a set of high quality global accounting standards. Although a majority of developed markets have adopted the international standards‚ the United States has not.
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Inc. the accounts are prepared under different regimes. Dell is a US computer distributer and hardware manufacturing company and the accounts are prepared according to the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). By comparison‚ Hartcourt Companies‚ Inc. is a Chinese distributor of computer hardware based in Shanghai and its accounts are prepared according to the accounting practices of the PRC (People’s Republic of China) GAAP. The International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) that came
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P A R T I Healthcare Finance Overview CHAPTER Introduction to Healthcare Finance 1 Progress Notes After completing this chapter‚ you should be able to THE HISTORY Financial management has a long and distinguished history. Consider‚ for example‚ that Socrates wrote about the universal function of management in human endeavors in 400 B.C. and that Plato developed the concept of specialization for efficiency in 350 B.C. Evidence of sophisticated financial management exists for much
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ACCOUNTING/291 Capital Expenditure vs Revenue Expenditure Carlos Flannigan XACC/291 Instructor: Tameka Johnson October2 ‚2014 Expenditures are unavoidable for any company to exist in the competitive market‚ to expand the business or to find new opportunities to open up beneficial business
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economy we live in today. However‚ this is more easily said than done because of some very notable differences between U.S. GAAP and IFRS standards. One of the most significant differences between GAAP and IFRS arises when accounting for income taxes. The first issue that arises when accounting for income taxes is determining the tax basis of an asset or liability. Under IFRS standards‚ tax basis is based on the expected manner of recovery. These standards define the tax base of an asset as the amount
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ACCOUNTING/291 Capital Expenditure vs Revenue Expenditure Carlos Flannigan XACC/291 Instructor: Tameka Johnson October2 ‚2014 Expenditures are unavoidable for any company to exist in the competitive market‚ to expand the business or to find new opportunities to open up beneficial business in those areas‚ etc. Expenditure is defined as payments of cash or cash equivalent for goods or services‚ or a charge against
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IFRS Income Tax Accounting IFRS for SMEs: A less taxing standard? On July 9‚ 2009‚ the IASB published the International Financial Reporting Standard for Small and Medium-sized Entities (“IFRS for SMEs” or “the standard”)‚ a self-contained standard of about 230 pages designed to ease the burden of IFRS reporting for entities that do not have public accountability. Globally‚ more jurisdictions may be encouraged to replace existing local GAAP with IFRS for SMEs. As a result‚ it holds
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IFRS in India... A Research Report Submitted for the partial fulfillment of MBA (Sem – III & IV) 2012-13 as a subject Management Research Project MRP on A Study of the Need & Adoption of IFRS in India. Submitted to: Submitted By Professor Hardik Shah Mr. Mukeshkumar Rajmal Jain & Roll No. 1414 Dr. Naresh Patel Center for Management Studies‚ Dharmsinh Desai University‚ Nadiad. Contents Page 1. Introduction Indian Accounting Standards 1 Need for Universal
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should not overestimate the amount of revenues that you record‚ nor underestimate the expenses. You should also be conservative in recording the amount of assets‚ and not underestimate liabilities. Another way of looking at prudence is to only record a revenue transaction or an asset when it is certain‚ and to record an expense transaction or liability when it is probable. Another aspect of the prudence concept is that you would tend to delay recognition of a revenue transaction or an asset until you
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Financial Reporting and Analysis – ACG6175 Date: 5/18/09 Revenue Recognition Problems in the Communications Equipment Industry 1 – In late 2000‚ Lucent announced that revenues would be adjusted downwards by $679 million as a result of revenue recognition problems. Yet the firms market capitalization plummeted by $24.7 billion. Why do you think the market reacted so negatively to Lucent’s announcements of the problems? There is usually a grey zone between aggressive accounting‚ which
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