The Washington State Board of Accountancy has specific education requirements that are current after July 2000. In order to be eligible to take the CPA exam, a person must have a Bachelor’s degree or higher and must have completed at least 150 semester credits of college education (Board of Accountancy Washington State). Within these 150 semester credits, 24 credits must be in accounting subjects with 15 credits at the upper or graduate level and 24 credits must be in business administration subjects
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............................ 2 SEC Leadership in International Effort .......................................................... 3 The SEC Work Plan........................................................................................ 4 FASB and IASB Convergence Efforts............................................................. 5 AICPA Participation ....................................................................................... 7 Two Sides of the Story ...............................
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accounting objective of that standard. This minimizes the opportunities for financial engineering designed to evade the intent of the standard. Second, each standard is drafted in accordance with objectives set by an overarching, coherent conceptual framework meant to unify the accounting system as a whole. Third, this approach eschews exceptions, which by their very nature are contrary to fulfilling a principled objective, create internal inconsistencies within the standard, and, inherently,
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measurement is required by IFRSs. Discussion at the September 2005 IASB Meeting At the September 2005 meeting, the IASB added the Fair Value Measurements topic to its agenda. The aim of the project is to provide guidance to entities on how they should measure the fair value of assets and liabilities when required by other Standards. This project will not change when fair value measurement is required by IFRSs. Discussion at the November 2005 IASB Meeting The staff conducted an education session on the FASB's
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Revenue Recognition: Where it Will Take Us By Robert Bloom and Jacob Kamm Financial Executive • SUMMER 2014 FINANCIAL REPORTING Since 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) have collaborated on a converged revenue recognition standard. Current U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) standards related to revenue recognition are essentially rules-based, containing over 200 specific requirements related to
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Property, Plant and Equipment Property, Plant and Equipment I- Nature of Accounting Issues Businesses purchase and use a variety of fixed assets, such as equipment, furniture, tools, machinery, buildings, and land. These fixed assets are long-term or relatively permanent assets. Also, they are tangible assets because they exist physically. They are owned and used by the business and are not offered for sale as part of normal operations. Perhaps the most descriptive titles these assets are
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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) governs the preparation of corporate financial reports. This paper will reflect on the FASB conception, its accountability, and members of the board. Furthermore, in many ways, the FASB standards known as generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), places limitations on business practices and financial reporting requirements; but it is required since accounting standards are crucial in a market where financial information should be transparent
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IAS 1: Presentation of Financial Statements Introduction The IASB – International Accounting Standards Board issued its framework for the Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements in 1989. This is referred to as its conceptual framework. The framework sets out the concepts that underline preparation and presentation of financial statements for external users. The IASB framework assists the IASB: • “in the development of future International Accounting Standards and in its review
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December 2004 as a temporary Standard before the IASB finish a more comprehensive Standard for mining activities. ● An entity has to determine a consistent accounting policy specifying which expenditure on exploration and evaluation will be recorded as an asset. ● In determining the policy, an entity can decide to apply the Conceptual Framework, or retain the accounting policies it has applied previously even if those do not comply with the framework. ● An entity can change its accounting policy for
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AFX 5860 Assignment International Studies in Banking & Finance Visit 1: UN Food and Agricultural Organization [pic] Place: Rome Italy Brief Introduction: The Food and Agriculture Organizaiton of the United Nations (FAO) is a special agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. FAO acts as a forum where all nations meet equally to negotiate agreements and debate policy, it also a source of knowledge and information which help developed and developing
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