Financial Accounting Standards Board, FASB, was implemented in 1973 in the private sector. It was meant to set up the standards for which financial accounting should operate. Its duty was to establish and improve the standards of financial accounting and reporting the financial matters to the general public as well as guiding and educating them. It also helps the auditors, issuers, and users who benefit from financial information. The FASB codification process includes all the accounting values issued
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Executive Summary The report analyzes three options to record the transfer of the in process research and development project Drug X from Bust-a-Knee to Pharmers. Based on the analysis, we recommend Options #3 as the approach to record the journal entries at the date of transfer. The first option records the acquisition of Drug X and OuchX into an intangible account -- “ownership”. In the case of transfer ownership of the IPR&D of Drug X from Brust-a-Knee to Pharmers, Brust-a-Knee receives
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Zachary Brink Professor McComb 16 September 2014 The FASB has recently issued Accounting Standards Update Number 2014-11 regarding topic 860: repurchase-to-maturity transactions, repurchase financings, and disclosures. Previously these transactions were accounted for as a sale with a forward purchase agreement, which would remove the asset from the balance sheet of the transferor. These transactions will now be recorded as a secured borrowing. The reasoning for this is that repurchase-to-maturity
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statements and accompanying notes present fairly a company’s financial position, results of operations, and cash flows in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Once this examination is made, the auditor is required to render an opinion. According to the standards adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), AU section 110-02, (Responsibilities and Functions of the Independent Auditor), “The auditor has the responsibility to plan and perform the audit to
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express an opinion on management’s assessment and an opinion on the effectiveness of the company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining
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environment to those.” Do you agree/disagree with Richards’ comment? Why/Why not? Discuss the ethical implications of the fraud committed at Computer Associates. In your response you should refer to Part A of the Code of Ethics of the Australian Accounting Profession discussed in Chapter 29 of the text. (25 marks) EARNINGS MANAGEMENT 2. “Numerous pieces of evidence suggested that earnings management – the managerial use of discretion to influence reported earnings – was a widespread corporate
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of earnings management concerning revenue recognition. On 14 November 2011 the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued for public comment a revised draft standard to improve and converge the financial reporting requirements of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and US General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for revenue (and some related costs) from contracts with customers. The objectives
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Accounting Standards Board Paper Katherine Meyer ACC/ 541 Kenneth Burton July 30, 2012 The Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Standards Board have been critical in modernizing the accounting field. The Accounting Standards Board was created out of criticism of the field and the Financial Accounting Standards Board was created out of criticism of the Accounting Standards Board. The histories of the boards have improved the accounting profession and have made the flow
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Financial Reporting policies in healthcare are a commonly used set of standards that the company compiles by use of authoritative and accepted ways to record and report accounting. Corporate compliance is designed to prevent any violations of the law by those such as, agents, employees, of a business. The ethics are equally important these are a set of morals or moral principles set by a person or agency. Fraud can be described as a breach or deceit and abuse can be described as a misuse of authority
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Accounting Standards Board In the last decades, there is a significant increase in corporations, which operate in different regions of the globe, and resulted in an increased demand for global financial reporting. In this research paper, we will analyze the relationship between the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). The research paper will discuss also how the Master’s of Science in Accounting (MSA) at University of Phoenix prepares students
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