The FASB codification process includes all the accounting values issued by a standard setter. The standard setter is in the levels ‘A’ right through ‘D’ of the present US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, GAAP, ladder. Also included is the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, AICPA, and the Emerging Issues Task Force, EITF (FASB, 1984). The codification process involves the assigning of numbers or letters to documents to enable faster access to those documents as well as their
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must record this revenue for the period ending 2010, but the transaction is not set to complete until 2011. The first issue that must be detailed is how and when revenue can be recognized. Under GAAP this is called the revenue recognition principle. This principle states that revenue can be recorded only when it is realizable, generally when the product or service has been delivered or performed, regardless of when the cash is received. Even though Data Equipment has paid for the product, Excello cannot
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Accounting and Business OBJECTIVES Obj 1 Describe the nature of a business and the role of ethics and accounting in business. Obj 2 Summarize the development of accounting principles and relate them to practice. Obj 3 State the accounting equation and define each element of the equation. Obj 4 Describe and illustrate how business transactions can be recorded in terms of the resulting change in the basic elements of the accounting equation. Obj 5 Describe the
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protocol and financial regulations. Legal Issues The accounting staff was tasked to find a way to log the sale of equipment in the current business year instead of the next year. The staff did recognize that the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles should not be violated. However, they still contemplated violating the Sarbanes-Oxley Act by reporting sales that did not occur and going against reported financial controls. Not to mention the potential misleading financial information reported
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Codification (Financial Accounting Standards Board), AICPA (American Institute of CPA’s) and FASAB (Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board) I can give a overview of how these items are defined in various resources. The FASB Accounting Standards Codification is the single source of authoritative nongovernmental U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Looking at the online FASB site it offers the most GAAP generally accepted accounting principles. The site is set up so that you can access the
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WorldCom but then after reading the section in Chapter Seven about Earnings Management Techniques (Mintz & Morris, 2011), it seemed clear that this is a shenanigan also know as an acceleration of revenue. Sarbanes-Oxley Act There are several principles of the SOX Act that can be taken into consideration here and applied to the behavior of top management. Aside for SOX, a key to management is to be ethical in top management and
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Explaining Basic Accounting Concepts and Business Structures The Hierarchy of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles identifies the sources for the accounting standards and principles. These sources include “FASB Standards, Interpretations, and Staff Positions; APB Opinions; and AICPA Accounting Research Bulletins” (Kieso, Weygandt, & Warfield, 2007, p. 12). When companies prepare financial statements in accordance with GAAP, they sometimes run into situations in which some standards do not
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the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), I am required to uphold and practice with a level of ethical conduct. I ensure that I have the required educational background and experience, and continue to maintain updated educational recaps every three years. According to the Code of Professional Conduct, members are to have “…a continuous responsibility to cooperate with each other to improve the art of accounting” (AICPA, 2012, para. 1). I am responsible for maintaining an expected
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these. The time frame associated with a balance sheet is: A. a point in time in the past. B. a one-year past period of time. C. a single date in the future. D. a function of the information included in it. Current U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and auditing standards require the financial statements of an entity for the reporting period to include: A. Earnings and gross receipts of cash for the period. B. Projected earnings for the subsequent period. C. Financial position at the end of
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Basic Accounting Concepts Vai Ma’ake University of Idaho Financial Accounting ACCP/537 March 19, 2011 Introduction To identify and describe the sources of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Also identify the source hierarchy and explain why the hierarchy is important. Describe effective accounting information using the qualities of accounting information and how an accrual basis of accounting system is different from a cash basis of accounting
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