variables to predict future cash flows, asset values and withdraw plans” (Investopedia, 2015). Many companies and organizations cannot run without having the proper financial planning, by keeping records up to date, following the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and general financial ethical standards as well as the four main elements of financial management. Finally, by addressing financial reporting practices and ethical standards within healthcare finance, fraud and abuse can not only
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FASB I. As discussed many times in ACC 310, the FASB is the current accounting standard setters in the U.S. as they are empowered by the SEC. Visit the FASB website at www.fasb.org and answer the following questions: (Do not cut and paste but answer in your own words. Any material quoted should be cited). 1. What is the FASB mission? 1pts The FASB mission is to establish and improve financial accounting standards and reporting. This sets the guidance for nongovernmental entities
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Auditing Week 2 HW 4-18 a. (1) b. (3) c. (1) 4-19 a. (1) b. (3) c. (3) 4-20 Service/Violation? a. Providing bookkeeping services to a public company. The services were pre-approved by the audit committee of the company. Yes b. Providing internal audit services to a public company that is not an audit client. No c. Implementing a financial information system designed by management for a private company. No d. Recommending a tax shelter to a client that is publicly
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The Financial Accounting Standards Board instituted the extraordinary items rule to provide more insight and transparency to financial statements. Events can be classified as extraordinary items if they are unusual or occur infrequently. Classifying unusual and infrequent events as extraordinary on financial statements provides a more accurate picture of the businesses’ performance. For companies to meet the unusual standard, the event must be extremely abnormal and are totally unrelated to ordinary
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witnessed many countries that have adopted International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in replace of their global General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), or at least have permitted IFRS. European Union is one important example of twenty eight countries that adopted IFRS in 2005. European policy makers state that the reason for adopting one set of accounting standers is to “level the playing field” for investors in the European capital market by increasing the comparability of financial statements
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identify better information? The relevance and reliability are the two main criteria that would identify better information since this would result useful and trustful information. 9-Is the setting of accounting standards desirable for society? If so, who should set standards? Yes, the setting of accounting standard is desirable for society because it provides investors with relevant information. There are a variety of standards that each depends on its setter for example the “Public Interest Theory”
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MALAYSIAN ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD Technical Release i-4 Shariah Compliant Sale Contracts © Malaysian Accounting Standards Board 2010 1 TR i-4 This Technical Release (TR) contains material in which the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation (IASCF) holds copyright and which has been reproduced in this Statement with the permission of IASCF. Copyright in the International Financial Reporting Standards (including Interpretations), International Accounting Standards
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W Accounting Standards Boards Miranda Arnold ACC/541 Cecil Lucy March 17, 2014 Accounting Standards Boards The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) first converged in 2002 following the Norwalk Agreement (Whittington, 2007). The convergence was inspired by the need of the boards to produce a solid infrastructure by uniting the two frameworks represented by each board in a bid to harmonize
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Objectives of GPFR The conceptual framework (CF) is a logical guideline of interrelated objectives and fundamentals that are expected to lead to consistent accounting standards and underlie the preparation and presentation of financial reports. Only CF and SAC 2 deal with the objective of GPFR (Mala 2013, pp. 12-6). There is no clear definition of the objectives of GPRF in the Conceptual Framework but according to the CF’s guideline and SAC 2 there are few objectives that GPRF should be met: OB1
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the past few decades, different generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) have been developed in various countries. These differences have arisen in response to the unique legal, regulatory, litigious, social, economic, religious, and cultural environments of the countries they were created in (Wiecek and Young, 1-2). The increase in globalization coupled with related regulations has given rise to the need for a common set of global accounting standards – International Financial Reporting Standards
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