Accounting Standards Boards Paper Elena Thomas ACC/541 January 10, 2011 Accounting Standards Boards Paper In the 1930’s, the financial community was realizing a need for a uniform accounting standard especially for its publicly traded companies. The SEC was given the authority by the Securities Act of 1933 to create accounting standards and determine the accounting disclosures (M.E. Sharpe, 2006). The SEC deferred to the accounting profession the task of creating auditing standards
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Using a conceptual framework in setting accounting standards Ian Dennis Business School Oxford Brookes University Abstract The paper examines the nature and role of a conceptual framework for financial reporting. Although much has been written about such frameworks and their purported role and the FASB and IASB are currently revising and converging their frameworks there are still questions about the kind of thing it is and how it is used in setting accounting standards. Using insights
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ACC307 – Accounting Theory Assignment Name: Chun Ho Hui Student ID: na20150418 Case Study 1 Questions 1. Explain why principles-based standards require a conceptual framework. A: Conceptual framework can be defined as “an attempt to define the nature and purpose of accounting” (Team, 2015). Conceptual framework is essential for principle-based standards because it lays out a fundamental structure for principles-based standards. Setting the standard on and relate to an established body
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1) Accounting Conceptual framework provides accountants with a constitution regarding the recording and reporting of financial information. Conceptual framework comprises the theoretical structures, including various assumptions, principles or rules, companies follow when conducting operations. A common use of conceptual framework is in the corporation’s corporate governance. The Financial Accounting Standards Board defined its conceptual framework as 'a coherent system of interrelated objectives
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Why or why not? The removal of stewardship from the common conceptual frameworks is a recent decision within various accounting standard-setting bodies, met with indistinguishable levels of opposition and support. Financial users insist that determining whether or not resources entrusted in management have been used for their intended purpose should be upheld as a vital objective of financial reporting while conceptual framework regulators and standard setters believe that it is not a necessary
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Using a conceptual framework in setting accounting standards Ian Dennis Business School Oxford Brookes University Abstract The paper examines the nature and role of a conceptual framework for financial reporting. Although much has been written about such frameworks and their purported role and the FASB and IASB are currently revising and converging their frameworks there are still questions about the kind of thing it is and how it is used in setting accounting standards. Using insights
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Accounting is a system of recording processing business event and communicating information about a business to: * The business owner or owners * People who may want to invest in the business * Creditors, that is, people we owe money to * Others, including employees. Accounting information is given in the form of accounting reports, including the Income statement (has the business made a profit or a loss for a year?) and balance sheet (what are the resources of a business
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Accounting Horizons Vol. 24, No. 3 2010 pp. 471–485 American Accounting Association DOI: 10.2308/acch.2010.24.3.471 COMMENTARY A Framework for Financial Reporting Standards: Issues and a Suggested Model American Accounting Association’s Financial Accounting Standards Committee (AAA FASC) James A. Ohlson, Stephen Penman, Robert Bloomfield, Theodore E. Christensen, Robert Colson, Karim Jamal, Stephen Moehrle, Gary Previts, Thomas Stober, Shyam Sunder, and Ross L. Watts SYNOPSIS:
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Definition of 'Accounting Information System - AIS'The collection, storage and processing of financial and accounting data that is used by decision makers. An accounting information system is generally a computer-based method for tracking accounting activity in conjunction with information technology resources. The resulting statistical reports can be used internally by management or externally by other interested parties including investors, creditors and tax authorities. | Answer:There are various
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Accounting Horizons Vol. 26, No. 1 2012 pp. 125–133 American Accounting Association DOI: 10.2308/acch-50087 COMMENTARY Some Conceptual Tensions in Financial Reporting American Accounting Association’s Financial Accounting Standards Committee (FASC) Yuri Biondi, Jonathan Glover, Karim Jamal (Chair and principal co-author), James A. Ohlson, Stephen H. Penman, Shyam Sunder (invited principal co-author), and Eiko Tsujiyama SYNOPSIS: We examine four key conceptual tensions that are at the heart
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