FASB Codification System Orientation ACC/497 The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) became necessary to accounting standards in order to ensure certain methods and structures are followed. The FASB is not the primary group to hold this responsibility, and because of this confusion can arise from complying with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). In order for the FASB to simplify standards, the Accounting Standards Codifications was established. The FASB ASC is designed
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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) established a codification system to provide a single source of information for accounting standards. Before, pronouncements from standard setters were separate and time consuming to research. The FASB ASC is a searchable database that significantly reduces the amount of time it takes to find and research pronouncements from the FASB, Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF), Accounting Standards Executive Committee (AcSEC), Accounting Principles Board (APB)
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information. 1. In the Course Home tab of your course shell, click on “FASB Codification Access.” Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on “For tutorials please click on the link here.” Watch and listen to the four tutorial modules and answer the following questions with information you learned in the tutorial, your book and through Internet research: a. Why was codification needed? Ultimately the Codification was needed to simplify access, improves accuracy of research and mitigates
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According to FASB (2012), “The FASB Accounting Standards Codification is the source of authoritative generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) recognized by the FASB to be applied to nongovernmental entities” (FASB Accounting Standards Codification, Para. 1). The FASB accounting standards codification is basically a record of bookkeeping data that will allow clients to browse amongst thousands of GAAP proclamations that are put into about 100 issues. The system is planned to help lessen
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FASB Codification System Orientation Paper Millay Dimond June 15, 2015 ACC 497 Shonda Meadows FASB Codification System Orientation Paper In effort to create a system to aid professionals when researching accounting principles, the Financial Accounting Standards Board created the FASB Codification System. The new Codification system is widely accepted as the source of authoritative United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. This paper will explain the FASB Codification System and its
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FASB Codification System Orientation Paper Janet Osegueda University of Phoenix Advanced Topics in Accounting Research ACC/497 Raymond Clark, Instructor July 3, 2014 FASB Codification System Orientation Paper The FASB Codification System is a database and research system that was developed by the financial Accounting Standards Board. It authentically pulls together many different resources about the accounting standards and it puts it into a single searchable system. The
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FASB Codification System Orientation Paper The Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) Codification System would be a system that has been put into place that holds all resources together from the GAAP standards. The standards includes FASB, the Accounting Principle Board, the Securities and Exchange. The information within the FASB has all of the information located within one central location. The purpose of having the FASB Codification System in place would be for all of the information
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obligations on the issuer; preparedness to perform and pay for agreed upon services (FASB 460-10-25-2). According to FASB 460-10-25-5 “because of the uncertainty surrounding claims that may be made under warranties, warranty obligations fall within the definition of a contingency.” This means that we accrue losses from warranty obligation that are considered “probable”. A. A lot of new literature has been published by FASB regarding the recognition of separately priced warranties. These new items will
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should account for investments in different forms and situations. If these guidelines are followed, Cascade Company will be in coherence with FASB concatenations. Readily Determinable: According to the authoritative literature, the fair value of a security is readily available when its specifications meet any of the following conditions (According to FASB ASC 320-10-20 Glossary): I. The fair value of an equity security is readily determinable if sales prices or bid-and-asked quotations are currently
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reform is still accelerating, for a number of well-known reasons : establishment of a new international order, trend towards modernization in many countries, etc., the moment seems appropriate to wonder how influential Napoleon’s Code is on the codifications which are taking place now. Of course, we shall consider this Code, not as it was in 1804, but in its present state, after two centuries of legislative additions and
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