CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR FINANCIAL REPORTING SCOPE OF THE FRAMEWORK The existing framework deals with the ■ Objectives of financial statements; ■ Qualitative characteristics of financial statements; ■ Elements of financial statements; ■ Underlying Assumptions; ■ Recognition of the elements of financial statements; ■ Measurement of the elements of financial statements; and ■ Concepts of capital and capital maintenance OBJECTIVES The objective of general purpose financial reporting.
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE – CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK INTRODUCTION: The great Indian master of Political Science Kautilya mentioned four functions of a king in his well-known book Arthashastra -1.Raksha or protection‚ 2.Vriddhi or enhancement‚ 3.Palana or maintenance‚ and 4.Yogakshema or wellbeing or safeguard. It is the sacred duty of the state to protect the person and property of its subject to enhance their wealth‚ to maintain them and to safeguard their interest in general. This noble concept
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Democracy‚ governance and development: A conceptual framework BY MARION NECHESA MAYENDE ADM NO: Paper Presented to The School of Business and Public Management Of Mount Kenya University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the degree of Master of Development Studies November 2012 Definition of terms Democracy is a system of running organizations‚ businesses and groups in which each member is untitled to vote and take part in decision. Government is
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Theoretical Background and Conceptual Framework Article 14‚ Section 2 of the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines states that I is the study of the state to provide adult citizens‚ disabled‚ out-of-school youth with training in civics‚ vocational efficiency and other skills. With this provision‚ the Philippine government is expected to take responsibility for these growing numbers of individuals known as the mentally subnormal. This provision of the law‚ too which the Department of Education
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2 Contents Conceptual framework for financial reporting Objectives 2.1 Why a conceptual framework? 2.2 IASB Framework for the Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements 2.2.1 The objective of financial statements 2.2.2 Stewardship as an objective of financial statements: the current debate 2.2.3 Underlying assumptions 2.2.4 A note on the ‘going concern’ assumption 2.2.5 Qualitative characteristics of financial reporting information 2.2.6 Constraints on financial reporting 2.3 Elements
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Nonetheless‚ to some‚ the conceptual framework has contributed a lot in the development of business‚ financial‚ accounting and auditing fields. For instance‚ using the conceptual framework of financial reporting‚ the Water Accounting Standards Board (WASB) in Australia has developed a Water Accounting Conceptual Framework in order to assist in the country’s water reporting and the rights to water (Chalmers et al.‚ 2012). The WASB replicated the financial accounting concepts‚ principles and practices
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24/07/2013 Overview of ACCT2011 Institutional and Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting Week 1 Lecture Schedule of weekly topics › UoS Outline Assessment › Mid-semester test (7 Sep 2013) 40% 60% › Final exam (final exam period) ACCT2011 Financial Accounting A Dr Eagle Zhang › Please note: You must achieve at least 40% in the final exam to pass the unit AND get an overall mark of 50% or more. 1 4 Overview of ACCT 2011 1. Applying specific accounting standards: • interpreting
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Corporate Governance in Banking: A Conceptual Framework Penny Ciancanelli E-mail: p.ciancanelli@strath.ac.uk And Jose Antonio Reyes Gonzalez E-mail: areyes@eh.quik.co.uk Department of Accounting and Finance Strathclyde University Glasgow‚ G4 0LN Tel: (44) (0) 141 548-3896 Fax: (44) (0) 141 548-3547 This paper can be downloaded from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=253714 Paper submitted for presentation at the
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What is a conceptual framework for financial accounting and why is it needed? The purpose of this essay is to address the definition of a conceptual framework (CF) for financial accounting and why it is needed. The CF can be described as a “coherent system of inter-related objectives and fundamentals that should lead to consistent standards that prescribe the nature‚ function and limits of financial accounting and financial statements” (FASB‚ 1976). This suggests that the CF has a very important
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The New Conceptual Framework: The Objective of General Purpose Financial Reports By Jim McFie‚ a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya FASB (the Financial Accounting Standards Board‚ a US body) was the first organization to develop “Concepts Statements”. All the other “Concepts Statements” have been based on those developed by FASB. A new “Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting” was worked on jointly by FASB and IASB (the International Accounting Standards Board)
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