The Role of Accounting in the Medical Office By Joy Hicks Medical Office Expert An accounting department plays an enormous role within the medical office. As the backbone of the organization, the accounting department allows the organization to operate at its fullest potential. Without an accounting department, it would be impossible for any type of organization to operate in a cost effective manner. General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) are the common set of accounting principles
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make sure that the accounting process is done the same all over the country, and to help prevent fraudulent or any misleading information. This issue has become even more important with the evolution of traditional business to ecommerce which leads to the constant moving of money between countries. Accounting has the ability to be done in many different forms and fashions, but the world had narrowed it down to only two accounting practices which are IFRS and GAAP. Accounting practice has been around
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When establishing accounting standards is basically saying they want you all accounting firms and accountants to be uniform. They don’t want any outliers doing something completely different on their accounting reports when another accountant is following the set of standards given to him by AICPA and FASB. FASB has a need for balancing their accounting considerations and economic consequences. Political process is basically a process that forms and administrates public policy that is usually between
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unreasonable estimates or one time transactions during good economic times in order to smooth out activity in bad economic times (Levitt). These transactions directly violate, not only simple human honesty, but also Conservatism, one of the main accounting principles. A real world example of the use of cookie jar reserves is the computer company Dell. In 2010, they paid a penalty to the SEC of $100 million dollars due to their using of cookie jar reserves. To establish their reserves, Dell did
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MEMORANDUM TO: Senior Accounting FROM: Staff Accountant DATE: June 29, 2015 SUBJECT: Shared-Based Payment Reporting and Special Purpose Entities (SPE) CC: Team members ______________________________________________________________________________ As an Accounting Firm it is very important that we follow the most recently changed or amended regulations and standards set by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). As of 2009 the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has made
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standards for accounting of state and local governments by determining what pieces of data are necessary to provide useful information to citizens. FASB creates standards for all business and government entities to follow. GASB monitors government entities and sets the standards for local and state governments, while FASB works to help investors and creditors make decisions from the rules regulating the accounting standards of private entities. GASB helps to identify how accounting should be handled
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Green Dreams Evaluation Exercise Answer these questions on a group basis: 1. Develop a chart similar to the evaluation handout and fill in all of the pieces for the main accounting issue: “How should Green Dreams account for the sales/use taxes?” Use the provisions of SFAC #6 and FASB #5 to reach a conclusion. |Elements of Reasoning | |What is
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Q NO.03: Discuss the role of each of the following in the Formation of Accounting Principles? * AICPA * FASB * SEC Ans: * AICPA: American Institute of Certified Public Accountant: The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) is the national professional organization for Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) in the United States. Founded in 1887, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) is the national professional organization of Certified
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Case 1-3 Politicalization of Accounting Standards Some accountants have said that politicalization in the development and acceptance of generally accepted accounting principles (i.e., standard setting) is taking place. Some use the term politicalization in a narrow sense to mean the influence by governmental agencies, particularly the SEC, on the development of generally accepted accounting principles. Others use it more broadly to mean the compromising that takes place in bodies responsible for
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Accounting Standards Board Juanika Hogue ACC 541 – Accounting Theory and Research September 8, 2014 Valerie Turnbow The FASB begin with the abolishment of the APB (Accounting Principles Board) after the recommendation of the Wheat committee in 1972. The IASB is a private board created in 1973 to create accounting standards to be observed worldwide. Beginning with the Norwalk agreement in 2002 the FASB and the IASB committed both entities to making mutually compatible standards both foreign
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