Fraud Cases: Violations of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) Section 1 In July 2002 the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed by the U.S. Senate by a vote of 98 to 0. The bipartisan support for the legislation emanated directly from the investing public’s lack of tolerance for financial statement fraud. Not surprisingly‚ when formulating its post-Sarbanes technical audit guidance‚ the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) made it clear that detecting fraud must be the focus
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Accounting Theory There is always a reason behind each and every action of a human being. A man does not anything without any sound reason. Regarding Finance‚ or financial matters‚ a man is always extra cautious and so‚ he never makes any financial transaction without any reason. As accounting deals with financial transactions‚ so every accounting work is also based on reasoning. Accounting Theories always try to explain with reason‚ the logic underlying a particular practice. Generally Accepted
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ACCG399 Accounting in Context Macquarie City Campus Unit Guide Offered in Session 2‚ Undergraduate‚ City 2013 General Information Convenor and teaching staff: Lecturer –in-Charge: Email: Adrian Koit Adrian.Koit@mqc.edu.au Credit Points 3 Prerequisites ACCG224(P) and 42cp Corequisites N/A Co-badged status This unit is not co-badged. Contacting Staff Please use email as the first form of contact. Students are required to send all enquiries about the unit to the staff
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ACCOUNTING ASSUMPTIONS‚ PRINCIPLES‚ AND CONSTRAINTS Phil Toms March 29‚ 2013 The basic assumptions are monetary unit assumption and the economic entity assumption. The monetary unit assumption requires that companies include in the accounting records only transaction data that can be expressed in terms of money. This assumption enables accounting to measure economic events. The monetary unit assumption is vital to applying the cost principle. An economic entity can be any organization
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ACCT7102 Individual Case Study Assignment: ‘Biovail Corporation: Revenue recognition and FOB Sales Accounting’ Task Description: The financial reporting case study is a comprehensive case study which examines the specific application of case scenarios involving principally Topic 5 (Managerial incentives for financial statement management). The case will also be used to examine student report writing skills‚ general accounting knowledge‚ and ability to critically evaluate complex case
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aggregation concept Concept on Prudence Matching Principle Dual Aspect Relevance Concept Introduction Financial accounting has a number of conservative laws which have been considered over the years and all the possible identifiable rules are: Business Entity Concept‚ Money Measurement Concept‚ Going concern Concept‚ Accrual basis of accounting concept‚ Consistency Concept‚ Materiality and aggregation concept‚ Prudence‚ Matching Principle and Dual Aspect 1. The Business Entity Concept
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reader how Christopher struggles with autism. Firstly‚ every author has its specific style of approach to the audience‚ the way Mark has added diagrams in this novel to make it look like this is the way autistic kids write or describe it is very unusual. While explaining the journey of Christopher’s life‚ diagrams are something he uses daily. “First of all I made a plan of our street...like this”(35).In this diagram it shows a bird’s eye view of Christopher’s street. It states that Christopher uses
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ACCOUNTING ENVIRONMENT Learning Outcomes At the end of this chapter the students should be able to: Explain the meaning and purpose of accounting Describe the role of accounting as a information system Describe why accounting is considered as the language of business Assess the impact of external environmental factors on accounting Introduction Accounting has evolved and emerged as most other fields of human activity in response to the social and economic needs of society
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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) and was published simultaneously by FASB and IASB in September 2010. It deals with
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Precautionary Principle The precautionary principle was arguably developed and originally implemented in Germany and Sweden‚ and it is these nations that remain the leading proponents of it. For example‚ it was one of these nations (Germany) that put the precautionary principle on the international stage‚ and today with regard to environmental regulation (in particular chemicals) it is Sweden that is pushing forward precautionary legislation in the European Union. There is a conflict between
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