537 Basic Accounting Concepts Sources of GAAP There are four bodies who take part in the creation of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. The first of which is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Companies that go public must file financial statements with the SEC. The SEC creates a standard of financial statements that the companies must file. The SEC works with the private sector as well by encouraging resolving reporting problems and may also reject standard proposals.
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the organization may continue to operate effectively. Financial professionals must continue their education even after they have completed graduate school. Financial professionals must remain informed and compliant with Generally Accepted Accounting
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To: FASB / IASB From: Billy Leigh Re: Proposed Changes to Financial Statement Presentation Dear Members of IASB / FASB, As I understand it, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) are proposing a joint venture to change the presentation of financial statements. I appreciate the opportunity to comment on the proposed changes. It is in my humble opinion that the current requirements for financial statement presentation
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Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is the accounting framework used by the European Union, Japan, Canada, and other world economic leaders. The IFRS is based on the tenets of understandability, reliability, and comparability. It is based off the International Accounting Standards (IAS) and had the opportunity to be built from accounting ideas and principles used across the world. In recent years it also has had the chance to look at the United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
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creative professionals and consumers around the world through its innovative hardware, software and Internet offerings.” Now let’s look at Swatch, according to Swatch it, “is the world's leading supplier of watch movements and finished watches, accounting for as much as 25 percent of total world production, while capturing more than ten percent of all watch sales. The Swatch Group is more than its flagship Swatch brand--which alone accounts for half of the company's profits, and, in the late 1990s
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Accounting for intangible assets is a major issue within the accounting environment. The issue is identifiable when it concerns accounting for research and development costs, in particular, internally generated assets. With two imperative standards in practice today, one being the IASB’s selective capitalisation of expenses into an intangible asset once a specific criteria has been reached and the other being the FASB’s system of straight expensing of all expenditure. This subject
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International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) MBA 691: Managerial Accounting Professor: Prepared by: April 19, 2009 Bibliography: • Ernst & Young, “U.S. GAAP vs. IFRS: The basics”, January 2009. • Securities & Exchange Commission, “Roadmap for the Potential Use of Financial Statements Prepared in Accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards by U.S. Issuers”, www.sec.gov/spotlight/ifrsroadmap.htm (Release No. 33-8982;
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|المحاسبون | |Accounting |محاسبة | |Accounting Assumptions (Postulates) |الفروض أو الافتراضات المحاسبية | |Accounting Concepts |المفاهيم المحاسبية - المبادئ المحاسبية | |Accounting Constraints
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International Accounting Standards and Selected Middle East Stock Exchanges Besalet Basoglu and Ahmed Goma Manhattan College Email: bbasoglu@manhattan.edu Agoma@manhattan.edu JEL Classifications: G1, M4, O5 Keywords: Middle East Stock Exchanges, International Accounting Standards, GAAP, IASC 1. International Accounting Standards and Selected Middle East Stock Exchanges In an effort to generate comparable and reliable accounting information to help investors, creditors and others
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significant changes to some accounting standards and minor changes in others. A number of countries throughout the world are now undergoing a similar process as they too adopt the IFRS regime. However, a single global set of accounting standards has not been achieved as the United States continues to apply its own Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US-GAAP) as endorsed by the US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). In 2003 the International Financial Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the
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