Chapter 1 The Government and Not-For-Profit Environment ------------------------------------------------- Questions for Review and Discussion 1. The critical distinction between for-profit businesses and not-for-profits including governments is that businesses have profit as their main motive whereas the others have service. A primary purpose of financial reporting is to report on an entity’s accomplishments — how well it achieved its objectives. Accordingly, the financial statements
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The financial accounting standards board (FASB) has developed a research tool to assist people in finding the correct guidelines and generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) that apply to companies not ran by the government. [ (multiple, FASB Accounting Standards Codification, 2009) ] The Codification is to give up to date releases of standard-setting activity, ensure accurate codified material, and simply access of all authoritative US GAAP into one centralized location. The Codification
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this was incorrect because based on the IAS 17, paragraph 10 – Accounting for Leases: “Situations that would normally lead to a lease being classified as a finance lease include the following: • the lease term is for the major part of the economic life of the asset, even if title is not transferred • at the inception of the lease, the present value of the minimum lease payments amounts to at least substantially all of the fair value of the leased asset” The Lessee would lease the equipment for
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International Financial Reporting Standards vs. Generally Accepted Accounting Principals Over the last decade, the world has become increasingly connected. Businesses are embracing opportunities abroad and gathering investors from a progressively growing international market. Globalization has given rise to a number of questions regarding multicultural business practice. It has also created a need for universal financial reporting that is consistent and useful to all of its users, international
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Comparative International Accounting Systems and Practices * United States and United Kingdom as major countries in the context of the Anglo-Saxon culture area; * The Netherlands and Sweden as representatives of the Nordic countries; * Germany and Switzerland as representatives of the Germanic countries; * France and Italy as representatives of the developed Latin countries and; * Japan as a representative of the developed Asian countries. | ANGLO-SAXON ACCOUNTING * There is no doubt
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proudly holds the title of the largest search engine. Google offers many tools a few are a browser, blogger, social network, email, maps, most widely known is Android. GAAP and description of accounting principles Generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) was developed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in 1999. GAAP is a set of widely known rules and principles designed for accountant to use in analyzing companies financial statements that are
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money-measurement concept states that accounting reports only those facts that can be stated as monetary amounts * ENTITY CONCEPT The fact that accounts are kept for entities as distinguished from the persons associated with those entities is called the entity concept. GOING-CONCERN CONCEPT an entity, or concern, normally will keep on going from one year to the next. ASSET-MEASUREMENT CONCEPT Most monetary assets are reported at their fair value, and most nonmonetary assets are
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this was incorrect because based on the IAS 17, paragraph 10 – Accounting for Leases: “Situations that would normally lead to a lease being classified as a finance lease include the following: • the lease term is for the major part of the economic life of the asset, even if title is not transferred • at the inception of the lease, the present value of the minimum lease payments amounts to at least substantially all of the fair value of the leased asset” The Lessee would lease the equipment for
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Galaxy Sports Inc. is a manufacturer of sports equipment. It is a public company with three reporting units: Fitness Equipment, Golf Equipment, and Hockey Equipment. During our audit, certain accounting treatments by Galaxy regarding goodwill impairment were found to possibly contradict with the Accounting Standard Codification. Based on my research of the ASC, my recommendations are that management should perform an interim goodwill impairment test at the end of third quarter of fiscal year 2009;
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ACCOUNTING ASSIGNMENT 1 QUESTION 1 PART A: EROSION OF CAPITAL Historical cost is adopted and used by many businesses in Australia. Despite being used by majority, one of the main disadvantages of Historical cost is fails to maintain intact other concepts of capital like constant purchasing power capital, except money capital. It fails to measure assets at their current cost but only use their current cost. In order to maintain capital properly, it should be able to cover the replacement cost of
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