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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Financial Reporting in an International Approach (1) Answer: Conceptual Framework: The Conceptual Framework is a report of generally recognized theoretical values which is very important form the period of reference for business reporting. Moreover‚ it is a coherent structure of related purposes and a major idea which is recommends the environment‚ purpose and boundaries of business accounting that is predictable to lead to reliable guidance. Also‚ it is planned to assist the community interest
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Discuss the effect of the Statement of Principles for Financial Reporting on current UK financial reporting practice. The ASC was set up in the 1970’s‚ where at the time there was no clear statement of accounting principles‚ accept that the accounts should be prudent; consistent; follow the accrual accounting procedures and be based on the assumption that the entity would remain a going concern. Up until 1990 standards were set by the ASC; a body made up of six professional accounting bodies
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Financial Reporting Problem Part 1 XACC/290 March 1‚ 2015 Financial Reporting Problem Part 1 J.P. Morgan is a company in the banking industry. J.P. Morgan was established in 1799 and despite multiple stock market crashes and recessions; it is a company that continues to do well in its sector (JP Morgan‚ 2014). J.P. Morgan Bank is the publicly traded company that I chose to analyze the 2013 annual report. At the end of 2013‚ the total assets of J.P. Morgan was 1‚945‚467‚000‚000; one trillion‚ nine
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all investment decisions and entity X will act according to entity Y’s instructions. Entity X will earn a trustee fee for holding the shares. Any dividends or profit/(loss) from the investments belong to entity Y. Elements of financial statementsThe elements of financial statements 53 Entity X should not recognise the listed shares as its asset even though it is in posses- sion of the shares. Entity X does not control the investment’s future economic benefits. Benefits from the investments flow
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revenue sources on financial reporting at the hospital? o How are the hospital’s revenues and expenses grouped for planning and control? (one section) dennis HOW IS FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE MEASURED? Measuring hospital financial performance is commonly performed by analyzing margins (I.e.‚ the difference in revenue vs. expenses). Margins can be expressed by using financial ratios and as dollar amounts. OSHPD uses two financial ratios to measure a hospital’s financial performance. Both
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ACCOUNTING AND FINACIAL REPORTING Group Project FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS Due January 30‚ 2013 1. Focused on parts: 2 Balance Sheet and 3 Income Statement 2. Focused on parts: 1 General Information 3. Focused on parts: 4 Evaluation of the Corporation’s Disclosures 4. Focused on parts: ……………… (Although each member may focus on some specific parts for report preparation purpose
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Financial Analysis XACC/280 February 05‚ 2012 The two major companies that manufacture beverages are PepsiCo and the Cocoa-Cola Co. These two companies have been in competition for many years and both companies have a variety of choices when purchasing one of their beverages. These companies can be identified through their products such as; if a person were to buy a Pepsi the person
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1. Is this an example of fraudulent financial reporting or misappropriation of assets In this case‚ it is misappropriation of assets because the fraud is the consequence of the employee theft. As it is stated in the case “manager at Aspen store was stealing payments by customers on accounts. That’s why subledger was out of balance with the GL. To cover it up‚ the manager debited the sales account‚ which was why the gross margins didn’t make sense.” 2. What created an opportunity to commit the fraud
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