1. WHAT IS BOOKKEEPING? * Bookkeeping is the recording‚ on a day-today basis of the financial transactions and information pertaining to a business. It is concerned with ensuring that records of those individual financial transactions are accurate‚ up-to-date and comprehensive. Accuracy is therefore vital to the process. * Bookkeeping provides the information from which accounts are prepared but is a distinct process‚ preliminary to accounting. 2. WHY IS BOOKKEEPING IMPORTANT?
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Accounting Practice: It is the routine manner in which the day-to-day financial activities of a business entity are gathered and recorded. A firm’s accounting practice refers to the method by which its accounting policies are implemented and adhered to on a routine basis‚ typically by an accountant and auditor or a team of accounting professionals. Accounting in Bangladesh: In Bangladesh‚ the profession of Accountancy developed during the British colonial period. Today it is represented by two professional
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CHAPTER Accounting for Income Taxes OBJECTIVES After careful study of this chapter‚ you will be able to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Understand permanent and temporary differences. Explain the conceptual issues regarding interperiod tax allocation. Record and report deferred tax liabilities. Record and report deferred tax assets. Explain an operating loss carryback and carryforward. Account for an operating loss carryback. Account for an operating loss carryforward. Apply intraperiod tax allocation
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Accounting for Income Tax The standard prescribes the accounting treatment for income taxes is AASB 112 AASB 112 is based on a balance sheet approach to account for income taxes and it covers: • the accounting treatment of current and deferred tax expenses; • recognition and measurement of current tax assets and liabilities; • recognition and measurement of deferred tax assets and liabilities; • the accounting treatment of the tax consequences of various transactions and events‚ including
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Corporate Tax Levies Learning Objectives After studying this chapter‚ the student should be able to: 1. Calculate the corporation’s alternative minimum tax liability (if any). 2. Determine whether a corporation is a personal holding company (PHC). 3. Calculate the corporation’s PHC tax. 4. Determine whether a corporation is liable for the accumulated earnings tax. 5. Calculate the amount of the corporation’s accumulated earnings tax.
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Statements on Management Accounting PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING TITLE Definition and Measurement of Direct Material Cost TABLE OF CONTENTS Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Materiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Material Quantities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Material Lost in the Production Process . . . . Samples‚ Prototypes‚ and Initial Production Runs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 2 2 3 Unit Price of Direct Material
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According to the accounting practice in business‚ companies will always be levied by the federal through the income tax payable that will become the company’s income tax expense when it is paid. The tax net includes the personal profit‚ business income‚ and the capital gain. Referring to Australian Accounting Standard Board (AASB) 112‚ the income tax expense (income) is not merely equal to current tax liability (asset)‚ but also the function of the deferred tax liabilities and assets (Leo‚ Hoggett
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Potential tax issues related to the payment Erin received in August: 1) For Erin: ➢ Based on the information provided‚ Erin’s employment with CCC was terminated in July 2009 and Erin was informed on July 31‚ 2009. Thus the payment Erin received in August is considered as pay in lieu of termination notice. Therefore‚ it is taxable income and should be reported as employment income in her tax return. But it seems that the amount of $9500 she received is net of tax amount (her
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October 15‚ 2012 1. Compare and contrast different ways in which a taxpayer triggers a realization event by disposing of an asset. A taxpayer could sell an asset‚ donate it to charity‚ trade it for a similar asset‚ take it to the landfill‚ or have it destroyed in a natural disaster. 2. Potomac Corporations wants to sell a warehouse that it has used in its business for 10 years. Potomac is asking $450‚000 for the property. The warehouse is subject to a mortgage of $125‚000. If Potomac
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This essay is going to summarize the sources of modern income tax statutes‚ summarize the objectives of modern income tax statutes and compare and contrast generally accepted accounting principles. There are three sources of modern income tax statutes which are legislative‚ executive and judicial. In this paper only the legislative and the executive will be discussed. The Internal Revenue Code‚ which consists of statutory provisions relating to Federal taxation‚ only existed as individual revenue
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