influences Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)? (1) Securities and Exchange Commission (2) AICPA (1938-1973) (3) FASB What constitutes GAAP? Generally accepted accounting principles have authoritative support. * Either a rule-making body has established a principle or, over time, a practice has been adopted as appropriate because of universal application. What are the sources of GAAP? The Codification simplifies GAAP and provides it all in one place. * Its purpose is
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RELATED INFORMATION IFRS questions are available at the end of this chapter. TRUE-FALSe—Conceptual Answer No. Description T 1. Usefulness of the income statement. F 2. Limitations of the income statement. F 3. Earnings management. T 4. Transaction approach of income measurement. T 5. Single-step income statement. T 6. Revenues and gains. F 7. Multiple-step vs. single-step income statement. F 8. Multiple-step income statement. T 9. Multiple-step vs. single-step income statement
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CHAPTER 11 DEPRECIATION, IMPAIRMENTS, AND DEPLETION IFRS questions are available at the end of this chapter. TRUe-FALSe—Conceptual Answer No. Description T 1. Nature of depreciation. F 2. Nature of depreciation. T 3. Depreciation, depletion, and amortization. T 4. Definition of depreciation base. F 5. Factors involved in depreciation process. F 6. Definition of inadequacy. T 7. Objection to straight-line method. F 8. Units-of-production approach. F 9. Accelerated depreciation
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The IMPLeMeNTATION OF IFRS IN The UK DeVOLVeD ADMINISTRATIONS Ciaran Connolly Tony Wall The IMPLeMeNTATION OF IFRS IN The UK DeVOLVeD ADMINISTRATIONS by Ciaran Connolly Tony Wall Published by CA house 21 haymarket Yards edinburgh eh12 5Bh First published 2013 © 2013 ISBN 978-1-904574-94-1 eAN 9781904574941 This report is published for the Research Committee of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and
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Assets R31: Income Taxes R32: Long-Term Liabilities and Leases U.S. GAAP SS9 SS8 Generally Accepted Accounting Principle The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) The International Accounting Standards (IAS) The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) SS10 Recognition R33: Financial Reporting Quality R34: Financial Statement Analysis: Applications Measurement IFRS Disclosure Financial analysis 3-375 4-375 Framework Financial
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GLOBAL AVIATION GROUP 2013 Airline Disclosures Handbook Financial reporting and management trends in the global aviation industry kpmg.com KPMG’s Global Aviation practice KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We operate in 156 countries and have 152,000 people working in member firms around the world. The independent member firms of the KPMG network are affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity
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© Neste Oil 2005 Neste Oil Corporation Initial Public Offering April 2005 1 Disclaimer This presentation has been prepared by, and is the sole responsibility of, Neste Oil Corporation (the ‘‘Company’’) and its directors. This presentation does not constitute or form any part of any offer or invitation or inducement to sell or issue, or any solicitation of any offer to purchase or subscribe for, any shares or other securities of the Company, nor shall it or any part of it or the fact
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Principles (GAAP) is the standard platform of guidelines that governs the rules of financial accounting utilized in the preparation of financial statements. The US GAAP can be quite flexible in its interpretations and rulings, but the framework of GAAP is based upon certain constraints and principles in the preparation of financial reports. This paper shall endeavor to address the organization of GAAP and some of the specific areas of its governing responsibility. BODY GAAP is defined as
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quality goods * * Financial vs. Managerial Accounting * 1 users: external users vs. plan & control for internal use * 2 Time： Historical vs. Future * 3 objectivity and verifiability vs.relevance * 4 precision vs. timeliness * 5 subject companywide vs. segment * 6 rules GAAP/IFRS vs. not bound by any prescribed format * 7requirement mandatory for external reports vs. not mandatory * * Process Management * Four
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NiCE Working Paper 09-108 April 2009 Quality of Financial Reporting: measuring qualitative characteristics Ferdy van Beest Geert Braam Suzanne Boelens Nijmegen Center for Economics (NiCE) Institute for Management Research Radboud University Nijmegen P.O. Box 9108, 6500 HK Nijmegen, The Netherlands http://www.ru.nl/nice/workingpapers 1 Abstract We construct a compound measurement tool to comprehensively assess the quality of financial reporting in terms of the underlying fundamental
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