are two of the four key qualitative characteristics of financial accounting information. The others being understandability and comparability. Relevance requires that the financial accounting information should be such that the users need it and it is expected to affect their decisions. Reliability requires that the information should be accurate and true and fair. Relevance and reliability are both critical for the quality of the financial information‚ but both are related such that an emphasis
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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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Certificate of Secondary Education (Thanawia Amma) from Yehia Al Rafaei Language School‚ 1995. Experience (Current Occupation: Financial Controller Responsibilities: 1. Monthly Closing & Management reporting • Full responsibility for the Monthly closing (production reports ‚ Inventory and financial results) • Full responsibility for the monthly management reporting • Full responsibility for the monthly reporting package (both
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What caused the Financial Crisis…another way‚ Not who ..BUT WHAT the three common narratives about the financial crisis. The first argues that the primary cause was government intervention in the housing market. This intervention‚ principally through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac‚ inflated a housing bubble that triggered the crisis. This is the view expressed by one of our co-commissioners in a separate dissent. -Both of these views are incomplete and misleading. The existence of housing bubbles
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Financial Reporting Accurate financial reporting is paramount to the establishment of a level playing field for businesses. It also aids in analyzing trends in business and the economy. The first part of the research paper should outline the different offices and bureaus of financial reporting and why they are significant. The second part of the research paper will present some positive and negative examples of financial reporting results and offer analysis about them. These examples can incorporate
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Professional Ethics and financial statement disclosure: In a constructionist perspective Abstract This essay addresses the relationship between professional ethics and financial statement disclosure. The public should change its view on the objectivity of accounting profession because in no means can anyone be absolutely objective. The reason to this will be articulated thoroughly in the essay. Then how to maximize relative objectivity is discussed and
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Financial management study material (Reference: Financial management by S.N.Maheshwari‚ Financial management by I.M. Pandey ‚ Financial management by Prassana Chandra & Anna university study material) Unit – I FOUNDATIONS OF FINANCE Financial management: An Overview Time value of money introduction to the concept of risk and return of a single asset and of a portfolio‚ valuation of bounds and shares – option valuation OBJECTIVES AND FUNCTIONS OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Maximization of the
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FINANCIAL CONTROL Accession negotiations between Turkey and EU started on 3 October 2005. Explanatory and bilateral screening meetings for “Chapter 32: Financial Control” took place in Brussels on 18 May 2006 and 30 June 2006‚ respectively. The Ministry of Finance has been designated as the coordinator institution in this chapter. Financial Control chapter was opened to accession negotiations in Intergovernmental Conference on 26 June 2007 without any opening benchmarks. However‚ the following closing
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Financial Management FINANCIAL INTERMEDIERIES IN PAKISTAN Definition: A financial intermediary is an institution‚ firm or individual who performs intermediation between two or more parties in a financial context. Typically the first party is a provider of a product or service and the second party is a consumer or customer. Financial Intermediaries are financial institutions that accept money from savers and use those funds to make loans and other financial investment in their
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Consumer Interests Annual Volume 54‚ 2008 Financial Behavior and Problems among College Students in Malaysia: Research and Education Implication The purpose of this study are to identify and compare financial behavior and financial problems experienced by students; to conduct multivariate analysis of factors influencing financial behavior‚ and financial problems‚ and to explore the influence of financial literacy on financial behavior‚ and problems. Mohamad Fazli Sabri‚ Iowa State University1 Maurice
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