Principles (GAAP) to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS); in virtually 100 countries, 12,000 corporations have opted to follow IFRS. As this standard is becoming globally accepted, the United States has been compelled to cooperate with IFRS. To portray the challenges involved, one large United States company, Clark Corporation, will be explored. At the close of the 2010 financial year, Clark Corporation’s external auditors strongly recommended that they prepare its financial statements using
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ACCOUNTING 404 INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING FALL 2012 Instructor: Dr. Meihua Koo Office: Building 164, Room 2086 Email: mkoo@csupomona.edu Vmail: (909) 869-4531 Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday: 5:00 – 5:45 p.m. Wednesday: 9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. COURSE DESCRIPTION: Examination and discussion of accounting theories, techniques, procedures, accounting standards and regulations used in other nations. Examination of contemporary practices prevailing in different parts of the world. Emphasis on multi-national
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issues and challenges that multinational businesses face in financial recording and reporting of foreign based operations. With operations based in different countries that operate under different accounting principles and with varying currencies, there has been a need for the accounting principles and standards to be converged. This has in the past nine years seen the accounting policy making suggesting a complete overhaul in the way financial statements are reported and a convergence between the US's
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ideal world, financial statements would be consistent for market participants to easily understand, regardless of location. In reality, there are people that exist that have put that idea into real-life action. These people are known as the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). IASB formed in 2001 with a commitment to develop “a single set of high quality global accounting standards that provide high quality, transparent and comparable information in general-purpose financial statements
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(1) Uses of Accounting Information and the Financial Statements a. Accounting as an Information System i. Accounting is an information system that measures, processes, and communicates financial information about an economic entity. Accountants focus on the needs of decision makers. ii. External decision makers use financial accounting reports to evaluate how well a business has achieved its goals. These reports are called financial statements. iii. The primary external users of accounting information
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amount, if any, of sales due should be recognized in eVade’s financial statements? According to FASB ASC 450-20-25-2, in order to recognized a loss contingency, two of the following conditions have to be met; information available before the financial statements are issued or are available to be issued indicates that it is probable that an asset had been impaired or a liability had been incurred at the date of the financial statements and the amount of loss can reasonably be estimated. Since
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The Philippines known as one of the developing countries in Southeast Asia has also become one of the countries supporting the shift and full compliance with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The change from following the U.S GAAP or the localized version of the U.S GAAP to the International Financial Reporting Standards has become one of the main priorities in the accounting system of the country. However, there is a need to fully understand whether or not there really
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authorities have started to take action, and new international accounting standards (IAS) defined rules on boards¡¦ responsibilities and imposed penalties (the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) have come into effect. IAS rules will cause a greater need for comparability across various accounting and reporting principles. The European Union has decided that listed companies, a company which has any of its shares listed on a recognized stock market, should use international accounting standards (IAS) for accounting
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4011 APRIL 7, 2009 CRAIG CHAPMAN Biovail Corporation: Revenue Recognition and FOB Sales Accounting Background Late on October 9, 2003, David Maris, an analyst at Banc of America Securities (BAS), was trying to interpret the shocking events of the previous few days and finish the write-up of his first report on the Canadian pharmaceutical firm, Biovail Corporation. Maris didn’t like what he saw at the company, but he never liked writing “Sell” recommendations. In any event, he wanted
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receiving the related revenue. Most customers will not use the $25 credit the date issued, but rather use it at their convenience. In addition to researching US GAAP, the IFRS provided similar guidance on accounting for the $25 Referral Credit. International Accounting Standard 18 paragraph 19 offers guidelines that match corresponding revenue with expenses. Runway Discount provides the existing customer incentive due to a specific transaction by a referred new customer. With the credit being a specified
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