Core Faculty: Dr. Timothy 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
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IFRS Income Tax Accounting IFRS for SMEs: A less taxing standard? On July 9, 2009, the IASB published the International Financial Reporting Standard for Small and Medium-sized Entities (“IFRS for SMEs” or “the standard”), a self-contained standard of about 230 pages designed to ease the burden of IFRS reporting for entities that do not have public accountability. Globally, more jurisdictions may be encouraged to replace existing local GAAP with IFRS for SMEs. As a result, it holds important
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International Financial Reporting Standards Introduction: IFRS are a set of rules developed and issued by IASB (International Accounting Standards Board) which is an independent body based in London, England. These rules will apply uniformly to financial reporting by public entities worldwide. The adoption of IFRS is widespread around the world with 120 countries requiring public corporations to adapt IFRS. Accounting standards as we know are a modern development although its traces date back 500
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FOREIGN CURRENCY RISK EVALUATION ACC401 With Firm XYZ’s proposed expansion into three new foreign markets there will be several problems that arise. A risk assessment will need to be completed and presented to the board. The following is a risk assessment, with relevant subsequent mitigation measures in the area of foreign currency. Types of Risk There are primarily three types of risk that the firm XYZ faces with the expansion abroad. These are the accounting exposure, transaction exposure
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the income statement in regards to the specific industries of the companies that we have chosen as well as the differences in accounting practices of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), the Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) and the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Industry Differences Although most income statements are essentially the same, the income statement of a company in the retail or manufacturing industry may differ from the income
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Definition There is significance between accounting harmonisation and accounting standardisation where harmonisation allows countries to have different accounting standards provided that they do not have logical conflict with 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
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ASSURANCE AND ACCOUNTING CANADIAN GAAP – IFRS COMPARISON SERIES Issue 15: IAS 1 Presentation Of Financial Statements Both IFRS and Canadian GAAP are principle based frameworks, and from a conceptual standpoint, many of the general principles are the same. However, the application of those general principles in IFRS can be significantly different from Canadian GAAP. Therefore, to understand the magnitude of the differences between IFRS and Canadian GAAP, it is essential to look beyond the general
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|FRAMEWORK | | |U.S. GAAP |IFRS |Similarities | |Purpose of Framework |The FASB framework resides lower in hierarchy. |Management is explicitly required to |Both the frameworks are similar in | | |Management
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------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Grading Summary | These are the automatically computed results of your exam. Grades for essay questions, and comments from your instructor, are in the "Details" section below. | Date Taken: | 1/29/2012 | Time Spent: | 2 h , 45 min , 16 secs | Points Received: | 129 / 150 (86%) | | Question Type: | # Of Questions: | # Correct: | Essay | 7 | N/A | | | Grade Details | 1. | Question : | (TCO D) A classmate
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U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International financial reporting standards (IFRS) are the accounting principles that all companies must abide by in the US (GAAP) and internationally (IFRS). Golf-Travel Inc wants gather information about the tax issues related to their foreign subsidiaries. By researching through the codification, we find the different issues pertaining to their earnings from their global operations. Specifically, the answers to the issue that involves
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