Petty Cash 3 000 Creditors Control 50 000 Debtors Control 60 000 Equipment 90 000 Investments 90 000 Long term Loans 200 000 Motor Vehicles 120 000 Inventory 200 000 Retained Earnings 420 000 1 063 000 1 063 000 However the following transaction has not yet being taken into account: • A delivery vehicle with a book value of R 52 000 (initial cost of the vehicle was R 69 333) was involved in an accident and the insurance company’s assessors determined that the vehicle was beyond repair
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adoption on Financial Statement and Accounting Quality Q2) Principle and rule-based accounting reflect different approaches to accounting. The pros and cons of rule-based accounting (RBA) and principle-based accounting (PBA) are as discussed. (1) RBA deters creative accounting as rules reduce opportunistic discretion unlike PBA which is more subjective and ambiguous.On the other hand‚ others argue that rules are a means to circumvent the objectives of a standard and more vulnerable to transaction restructuring
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What is financial reporting? The traditional function of financial reporting was to provide business owners with information about the companies that they owned and operated. Once the delegation of managerial responsibilities to hired personnel became a common practice‚ financial reporting began to focus on stewardship—that is‚ on the managers’ accountability to the owners. Its purpose then was to document how effectively the owners’ assets were managed‚ in terms of both capital preservation and
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To: Carminho Building Products Ltd From: Rodrigues Accounting Dear Sir/Madam‚ We are submitting herewith our report entitled UK Subsidiary Expansion. The main purpose of this report is to help Carminho Building Products Ltd decide the potential and suitable site for the formation of a public listed subsidiary. This report will include United Kingdom’s current financial reporting environment and other information that Carminho Building Products Ltd would need in order to make a sound decision
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Financial Reporting Quality and Investment Efficiency Rodrigo S. Verdi The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania 1303 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall Philadelphia‚ PA 19104 Email: rverdi@wharton.upenn.edu Phone: (215) 898-7783 Abstract This paper studies the relation between financial reporting quality and investment efficiency on a sample of 49‚543 firm-year observations between 1980 and 2003. Financial reporting quality has been posited to improve investment efficiency‚ but there has been
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for the intangible assets. Applicable accounting pronouncement ASC 805-20-25 Business Combinations-Identifiable assets and liabilities and any non controlling interest-Recognition Recognition Conditions 25-2 To qualify for recognition as part of applying the acquisition method‚ the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed must meet the definitions of assets and liabilities in FASB Concepts Statement No. 6‚ Elements of Financial Statements‚ at the acquisition date. For
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Accounting Basics: Introduction Accounting is a glorious but misunderstood field. The popular view is that it’s mostly mind-numbing number-crunching; it certainly has some of that‚ but it’s also a rich intellectual pursuit with an abundance of compelling and controversial issues. Accountants are often stereotyped as soulless drones laboring listlessly in the bowels of corporate bureaucracies. But many accountants will tell you that it’s people skills‚ not technical knowledge‚ that are crucial to
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Accounting Reporting Criteria (GM and Toyota) Team B Megan Wooliver September 7‚ 2010 Accounting Reporting Criteria In order to keep up with the times most organizations of today are finding themselves consistently coming up with different ways to keep accounting information personal as well as accurate. Providing good accounting information not only leads to better decisions but also increase in profit. Even two different organizations that provide a similar product or service have
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Sustainability Reporting‚ and have also provide a summary about the two theories stakeholder theory and legitimacy theory including the annual reporting about the company ’s Toyota motor corporation and BHP Billiton and the comparison that how they have address the economic social environmental aspect of the companies in their report 2011. And has finalise by comparing two different sustainability report from both company accordingly it has define that how legitimacy is managed through reporting by the
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Introduction Financial accounting is branch of accountancy that deals with the financial statements which helps in informing public as well other concerned people who are not involved in day to day working of a company‚ about its current financial performance. Different stages involved in financial accounting are governed by certain standards set by organisations such as The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). The standards made by IASB
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