At present, financial accounting standards 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
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Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”) within a year of its issuance. In the US, the Emerging Issues Task Force (“EITF”) also attempted to address the related accounting issues in EITF Issue 03-14, Participants’ Accounting for Emissions Allowances under a “Cap and Trade” Program. However, it was never finalized, and ultimately removed from the EITF’s agenda. More recently, organizations have been advised of informal views from both the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) and the Securities and
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Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”) within a year of its issuance. In the US, the Emerging Issues Task Force (“EITF”) also attempted to address the related accounting issues in EITF Issue 03-14, Participants’ Accounting for Emissions Allowances under a “Cap and Trade” Program. However, it was never finalized, and ultimately removed from the EITF’s agenda. More recently, organizations have been advised of informal views from both the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) and the Securities
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the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). Therefore the accounting standards in different countries are not identical but very similar from one to another which allows convergence of accounting practices. However, standardisation of accounting has the direct opposite meaning of harmonisation where the standardisation requires all accounting practices in various countries to be exactly the same. Harmonisation tends to be associated with IASB which carries out the process of coordination
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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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International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) have been trying to implement a global acceptable standard for financial reporting since the end of 2002 onwards (Fogarty, 2011). However to this day in 2013 the convergence of both IFRS and US GAAP has yet to be completed and implemented. The likelihood of the convergence being completely finished and implemented seems possible but yet so far as both the IASB and FASB have already been trying for ten years
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COMPARING IFRS TO GAAP Lucien Goode University of Phoenix ACC/291 12/7/2015 IFRS VS GAAP There are over twenty-eight million businesses in the United States alone and less than one percent of those companies are incorporated. Corporations have been doing international business for hundreds of years and with the tech boom error growing over twelve times more than the early nineties, the way the world does business has changed tremendously. With the United States having so many businesses
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The BIGGER Picture (Ch. 1) Why do we need financial reporting? What is its purpose? Who are some of the key players in financial reporting? PROVIDER EXTERNAL USERS REGULATORS Your textbook (as most out there) evaluates accounting issues from a FASB perspective. We will discuss issues from the FASB’s conceptual framework, but also will try to think about others’ perspectives as well. Before we talk about the conceptual framework, we will discuss the structure of the ultimate product of the financial
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Brown Introduction The purpose of the following paper is to address common terms used in accounting, to include Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), double entry accounting, historical cost, accrual basis vs. cash basis accounting and current assets and liabilities vs. non-current items. I will also describe the general organization of the following three companies; Apple, Inc., Swatch Group, and Nikon. In doing so, I will attempt to determine and demonstrate what is more useful – net
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entries, preparation of financial statements, multiple step income statement. Chapter 1: Purpose (objective) of financial accounting; cash vs accrual accounting (net operating cash flow vs. net income); history of standard setting – SEC, AICPA (formerly AIA), CAP, APB, FASB; process of standard setting (graphic 1-4); global accounting standards – IASC, IASB, IFRS, Covergence project; Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 – Key provisions; Conceptual framework – objective of financial reporting, qualitative
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