Accounting Standards Board FASB; IASB and US FASB Complete First Stage of Conceptual Framework," 2010). This committee recommended that a full time board be developed to create set accounting standards. This led to the development of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in 1973 within the Financial Accounting Foundation ("US Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB; IASB and US FASB Complete First Stage of Conceptual Framework," 2010). The function of the FASB is to establish and publish
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Accounting and its role in society Accounting is concerned with collecting, analysing and communicating economic information (Atrill & McLaney, 2004, p1). However in order to develop a broader understanding of accounting and the central role it plays in society, we need to consider it from a social perspective. Individuals in society coexist by establishing relationships with each other. Another way of viewing society is by segmenting it into different groups or arenas, for example the social
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are established and propagated on the basis of two key conceptual structures, namely, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Boards (IASB) (Cong 2013). This essay will discuss and justify that accounting theory played a role in setting of accounting practices but it played no significant role in setting of accounting standards. Rather, several accounting standards were set by the conceptual frameworks formulated by the accounting standards-setting groups
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Main purposes of Conceptual Framework Document The Conceptual Framework explains the main objectives as well as the concepts that underlie financial accounting and reporting. The Conceptual Framework creates the concepts that are useful in developing International Accounting Standards and other documents that provide guidance on information included in general purpose financial statements. It standardizes the development and revision of accounting standards. However, the framework does not override
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contribute for the growth of the economy, and at the same time improving the standard of life of employees and their families as well as for the society they operate their business and future generation. REQUIREMNT OF THE CURRENT CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK Conceptual framework is a guideline issued by international accounting standard board (IASB) for the development of international accounting standards (IAS). It is a practical tool that assist IASB to develop standards and assist preparers to develop
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a need for a common framework for requirement analysis. Some organizations have their own process but still it is required to create a conceptual model for requirement analysis. As requirement analysis is human centered activity it is considered as Soft System. As there are many stakeholders involved in the FPSO projects it is considered as fuzzy problem to record all their objectives for requirement analysis. Soft System Methodology will be tool for creating the conceptual model. Most frequently
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Culture-Specific Forensic Accounting Conceptual Framework: A skills Set Theoretical Analysis Abstract : Forensic accounting, given its peculiar investigative stance, requires a specific skills set on the part of the forensic accountant, that integrates accounting, auditing and investigative skills. The Jordanian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (JACC) struggle to investigate Maward’s, a Jordanian state-own company, suspected corruption has raised serious concerns regarding the weak state of forensic
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Chapter 2: Conceptual Framework Underlying Financial Reporting Objective 1: Indicate the usefulness and describe the main components of a conceptual framework for financial reporting * First, to be useful, standard setting should build on an established body of concepts and objectives. Having a soundly developed conceptual framework as their starting point, standard setters are then able to issue additional useful and consistent standards over time. The result is a coherent set of standards
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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: This paper addresses the issues that confront the FASB and IASB in developing a new conceptual framework document. First, we
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Financial statement analysis (or financial analysis) the process of understanding the risk and profitability of a firm (business, sub-business or project) through analysis of reported financial information, by using different accounting tools and techniques. Financial statement analysis consists of 1) reformulating reported financial statements, 2) analysis and adjustments of measurement errors, and 3) financial ratio analysis on the basis of reformulated and adjusted financial statements. The first
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