University of Lethbridge – Faculty of Management MANAGEMENT 3100 Intermediate Financial Accounting I Course Outline – Fall 2014 Instructor: Carla Carnaghan, Ph.D., CISA, CMA Office & Hours: Calgary Campus office, 5:00 – 6:00pm Thursdays. Please email for appointment, and for alternative times. Office hours may be done in person, with Webex, or by phone, and for smaller issues with email. E-mail: Carla.Carnaghan@uleth.ca (emails received in the evening, particularly
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the US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, the accounting standard used in the United States, while IFRS the International Financial Reporting Standards is used in a vast amount of countries around the world (Tilea, D. M., Bleotu, V., & Serban, A. A. M. (2013)). The Contrast IFRS does not command an exact order or classification of accounts on the statement of financial position. In most cases, companies report assets in reverse order of liquidity. GAAP explicitly requires that all
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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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5: CONCLUSION 5.1. Solutions to improve credit risk management in trade financing in VIB Through the case study analysis in the previous chapter, we can see clearly the shortcomings needed to be improved in VIB now. In addition, the survey result in the following chart will make clear the solutions which should be applied in VIB. Figure 7 The survey result of solutions and recommendations to VIB (Source: Survey results made in VIB staffs) 5.1.1 Improving credit risk management capacity In the above
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is only fair that Namport works on their problems and improve where they fall short through implementations of newer and updated policies. 5. RECOMMENDATION • Namport should invest and train its project team members, management committees and financial employees that deal with cost estimates and budgeting. • Namports cost estimates and budgeting policies should be altered to include latest updates on estimate and budgeting processes being applied in different industries. • The state should implement
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At present, financial accounting standards are established and propagated on the basis of two key conceptual structures, namely, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Boards (IASB) (Cong 2013). This essay will discuss and justify that accounting theory played a role in setting of accounting practices but it played no significant role in setting of accounting standards. Rather, several accounting standards were set by the conceptual frameworks formulated
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auditors should also obtain an understanding of the methods and assumptions used by the specialist, make appropriate tests of data provided to the specialist, and evaluate whether the specialist’s findings support the related assertions in the financial
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4. The fraudulent activity at CA centred on issues of earnings management concerning revenue recognition. On 14 November 2011 the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued for public comment a revised draft standard to improve and converge the financial reporting requirements of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and US
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fraudulent activity at CA centred on issues of earnings management concerning revenue recognition. On 14 November 2011 the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued for public comment a revised draft standard to improve and converge the financial reporting requirements of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and US General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for revenue (and some related costs) from
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Accounting Standards Board Paper Katherine Meyer ACC/ 541 Kenneth Burton July 30, 2012 The Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Standards Board have been critical in modernizing the accounting field. The Accounting Standards Board was created out of criticism of the field and the Financial Accounting Standards Board was created out of criticism of the Accounting Standards Board. The histories of the boards have improved the accounting profession and have made the flow
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