The accruals and going concern concepts are regarded as fundamental in the preparation of financial statements. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these concepts‚ explaining the reasons why these concepts may be difficult to apply or may be inconsistent with other concepts. Accounting statement and records are a periodic summary of account activity within a period and the documentations involved in the preparation of it (Thomas and Ward‚ 2012: 4). They are done based on a set of rules developed
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The lecture last night discussed accrual accounting concepts such as timing issues‚ and the basics of adjusting entries. The discussion went into more detail on periodicity assumption and how accounting divides the economic life of a business into artificial time periods. These time periods are generally a month‚ a quarter‚ or a year‚ now whether it is a fiscal year or a calendar year that is determined by the company itself. The lecture then reviews the revenue recognition principle which expects
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According to this concept‚ it is assumed that the business will continue for a fairly long time to come. There is neither the intention nor the necessity for the purpose of liquidating the particular business venture in the foreseeable future. This is because if the results of the business operation were to be accounted for on the basis of the expected liquidation it would be almost impossible for suppliers to supply goods and services and other business firms to enter into any economic transactions
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wynne@accaglobal.com tel: +44 207 396 5778 Abstract • IFAC Public Sector Committee issued their standard on the cash basis of accounting and the ASB (UK) issued its draft interpretation for public benefit entities (not-for-profit organisations) earlier this year. In each case the private sector model of accounts was followed closely. • What is the experience in the UK of producing full accrual based accounts for public sector organisations? Have the increased value of these accounts been realised in practice
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Going Concern in a Credit Crisis – Call for Your Views Steve Priddy Director of Technical Policy and Research October 2008 You can comment on this piece at http://discuss.accaglobal.com/view_topic.php?id=49&forum_id=62 One of the fundamental accounting concepts is that financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis – that is that there is an underlying assumption that the entity will continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and that the entity has neither the intention
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the business and not due to his contribution to the business. Any increase in owner’s equity is called revenue and any reduction in it termed as a loan. In fact‚ it is the direct outcome of Realization Concept (already discussed) and the Accounting Period concept. In a way‚ realization concept has been split up into two parts‚ namely‚ production of economic goods or rendering of economic services‚ and realization of due revenue. Any uncertainty about any of the two elements beyond
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Application of Accounting Concepts Matching Principle & Accrual Concept Accrued / Prepaid Expense & Accrued or Advance Revenue To ensure an accurate matching of expenses and revenue under the accrual basis‚ it is necessary to include all revenue earned but not received and expenses incurred but not paid. Such adjustments comprise adjustments for : Accrued Revenue Accrued Expenses On the other hand‚ many recorded costs and revenues benefit more than one accounting period. Therefore‚ adjusting
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Week Three CheckPoint: Accrual and Cash Accounting XACC/290 August 11‚ 2013 Week Three CheckPoint: Accrual and Cash Accounting Accrual and cash-based accounting offer two different styles of tracking the flow of money in a business. Each serves a purpose and to understand this idea one must first realize the how one varies from the other. Accrual-based accounting can be described as any transaction that changes a company’s financial statement is recorded in the accounting period the transaction
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|ADJUSTMENT FOR ACCRUALS AND PREPAYMENTS | |Learning outcome | |Explain the foundations of accruals and prepayments‚ including the nature of the resulting change in the income statement. | |Show the entries for accruals and prepayments in the journal‚ ledger and final accounts.
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Accrual Accounting: Income is recorded as you invoice customers‚ and expenses are recorded when you receive bills from vendors‚ regardless of when cash is actually exchanged. This presents a truer picture of income and expenses. Most companies use this method. Cash-Basis Accounting: Income is recorded when cash (checks‚ money orders‚ or currency) is received‚ and expenses are recorded when paid. However‚ unpaid credit sales and purchases do not show on ledgers‚ which can present a misleading
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