ACC/290 March 28, 2016 Steven McAlister IFRS verses GAAP International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is a set of accounting standards developed by an independent, not-for-profit organization called the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), (Rouse, 2011). While, GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) is a collection of commonly-followed accounting rules and standards for financial reporting. Even though IFRS is a set of accounting standards and GAAP are
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deliverable because it's integrated with the five-year license and distribution agreement and doesn't have a stand-alone value. According to FASB ASC 605-25, it's not a deliverable. 2. According to FASB Statement of Financial Accounting Concepts(CON) 5,Recognition and Meaurement in Financial Statements of Business Enterprises, revenue is considered “earned” if an entity has substantially accomplished what it must do to be entitled to the contractual benefits. Revenue is “realizable” when related assets
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communication of financial information about economic entities.[1][2] The modern field was established by the Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli in 1494.[3] Accounting, which has been called the "language of business",[4] measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of users, including investors, creditors, management, and regulators.[5] Practitioners of accounting are known as accountants. The terms 'accounting' and 'financial reporting' are
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FAC3703/101/3/2015 Tutorial letter 101/3/2015 Specific Financial Reporting FAC3703 Semesters 1 and 2 Department of Financial Accounting IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Please activate your myUnisa profile and myLife email address and ensure you have regular access to the myUnisa module site FAC3703 as well as to your group site. Note: This is an online module, and therefore your module is available on myUnisa. CONTENTS Page 1 INTRODUCTION .........................................
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basis. Identify What Standard Setters have said as to the superiority of accrual accounting relative to a cash basis. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is recognized by the Securities and exchange commision as the accounting standard setter for public companies. The FASB believes that using accrual accounting provides a better picture of a company’s true financial health, and for this reason is a better choice than cash accounting. The FASB is recognized by many organizations as an
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Memorandum To: Big Wig, CFO, Big Bear Power From: James Albert Date: March 24th, 2016 Subject: The Bear Minimum Statement of Relevant Facts: Big Bear Power and Goliath Company entered into a contract in which Big Bear leased a combustion turbine. * The contract was signed on December 15th, 2004, but did not begin until January 1st, 2005. * The contract lasts for 10 years and is non-cancelable * Big Bear pays $500,000 in legal counsel fees, and are required to pay $1,000,000
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Bernard, and Noal Mellott. "The international standardization of accounting: the resistible rise of the IASC/IASB." In Annales des Mines-Gérer et comprendre, no. 2, pp. 15-24. ESKA, 2010. European Commission. 1995. Communication from the Commission, Accounting Harmonisation: A New Strategy Vis-à-vis International Harmonisation. Com, 95, p.508. Guggiola, G., 2010. IFRS adoption in the EU, accounting harmonisation and markets efficiency: A review1. The International Business & Economics Research
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efficient by letting investors compare companies from different countries. In particular, the issue of American adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is of importance because IFRS standards are used by companies in many countries around the world, including all the countries in the European Union, and some say that the best hope for assuring that the international standards are uniformly followed would be having The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), responsible for deciding
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Accounting Standards Board Paper Cassandra Fatchett ACC/541 Monday, March 23, 2015 Christine Errico Accounting Standards Board Paper International convergence of accounting standards is not exactly a new idea. In the 1950’s, in response to economic integration post World War II, initial efforts focused on reducing the differences among accounting principles used in major capital markets around the world. By the 1990's, 40 years later, the idea of harmonization had been replaced by the concept
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Fall2012 2012;14(1):19-26. Available from: Business Source Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed November 7, 2014. de Mesa Graziano, C., & Heffes, E. M. (2008). IFRS Section: Definition of Fair Value, One of the Differences Between U.S. GAAP and IFRS. Financial Executive, 24(10), 14 Romeo, G., & Bao, D. (2012). TEACHING INVENTORY USING U.S. GAAP AND IFRS: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE. Journal For Global Business Education, 1225-34. Siegel J., & Shim J. (2010) Accounting Handbook, Barron’s Educational
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