Enron‚ a Houston-based commodities‚ energy and service corporation‚ was named “America’s Most Innovative Company” for six consecutive years by Fortune Magazine. Ironically‚ its shares price had peaked at $90.75 in August 2000 and dropped massively to $0.67 in January‚ resulting in shareholders losing approximately $11 billion. In the November of 2011‚ it was revealed that Enron’s earnings had been overstated by several hundred billion dollars because enormous debts had been kept off from the balance
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AASB Standard AASB 101 Presentation of Financial Statements FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT (NFP) ENTITIES ONLY This compiled Standard applies to annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2013 but before 1 July 2013. Early application is permitted. It incorporates relevant amendments made up to and including 18 December 2012. Prepared on 10 May 2013 by the staff of the Australian Accounting Standards Board. Obtaining Copies of Accounting Standards Compiled versions of Standards‚ original
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2.1 Accounting standard-setters have an expectation that the readers of general purpose financial reports have a ‘reasonable knowledge’ of accounting. Specifically‚ the IASB Framework states that ‘users are expected to have a reasonable knowledge of business and economic activities and accounting and a willingness to study the information with reasonable diligence’. Hence‚ there is an expectation that financial statements are not tailored to meet the needs of people who have not‚ in some way‚ studied
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Enron: Questionable Accounting Leads to Collapse In the case of Enron‚ it comes down to pure greed and a lack of accountability. From the top‚ there was illegal activity with Ken Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ and Andrew Fastow who raided the company as though it was their own personal bank. On top of that‚ the culture of the rest of the company was to make as much money as they could and employees were rewarded by the amount of profit they could make without questioning the ethical means to do so.
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Major changes in rules and regulations Since the Enron collapsed an array of new laws and regulations has been adopted to tighten corporate oversight. US offices were the first one to come out and implement the policies. Almost all of the firms had their headquarters in the US and they replicated their headquarters policies to a good extend in other offices around the world. Also other governments and regulatory bodies around the world came out with their country specific rules and regulations which
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Enron: Questionable Accounting Leads to Collapse The Enron Corporation was established by integrating two major gas pipelines in 1985. The Company provided products and services related to natural gas‚ electricity‚ and communications and it was one of the world’s leading organizations at these sectors with claimed revenues of nearly $101 billion in 2000. Throughout the 1990s‚ Chair Ken Lay‚ chief executive officer Jeffrey Skilling and chief financial official officer Andrew Fastow transformed
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The International Accounting Standard Committee (IASC) came into existence on June 29 1973 when sixteen accounting bodies from nine nations (designated as founder members) signed the agreement and constitution for its formation with headquarters at London. The objective of the committee is "to formulate and publish in the public interest standards to be observed in the presentation of audited financial statements and to promote their worldwide acceptance and observance". This would
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302 Accounting Standard (AS) 16 (issued 2000) Borrowing Costs Contents OBJECTIVE SCOPE DEFINITIONS RECOGNITION Borrowing Costs Eligible for Capitalisation Excess of the Carrying Amount of the Qualifying Asset over Recoverable Amount Commencement of Capitalisation Suspension of Capitalisation Cessation of Capitalisation DISCLOSURE Paragraphs 1-2 3-5 6-22 8-12 13 14-16 17-18 19-22 23 The following Accounting Standards Interpretations (ASIs) relate to AS 16: ASI 1- Substantial Period
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RESEARCH: Accounting Standard Codification (ASC) 1. FASB had four primary goals in developing the codification. List these four goals: 1. Simplify user access to all authoritative U.S. GAAP by putting them all in one place with codification 2. Assist FASB with the research and international convergence efforts required during the standard-setting process 3. Become the authoritative source of literature for the completed extensible business reporting language (XBRL) taxonomy 4. Clarify that
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Intermediate Accounting Paper The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is a private‚ not-for-profit organization whose primary purpose is to develop generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) within the United States in the public ’s interest. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) designated the FASB as the organization responsible for setting accounting standards for public companies in the U.S. It was created in 1973‚ replacing the Accounting Principles Board and the Committee
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