1 LITI Task 1 Business Organizations Sole Proprietorship A sole proprietorship is owned by one person that runs the business. No formalities are necessary since the business is not owned by anyone else. There are some advantages and disadvantages of owning a sole proprietorship. One advantage is that the business can be closed down at any time and any financial obligations can be paid off. Another advantage is that the business has no boss‚ partner‚ or board of directors to answer to. One
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GASB and FASB Analysis Paper ACC/460 The Governmental Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Standards Boards were put in place to assist in regulating the private sector‚ federal‚ and state and local governments. These regulations that are in place are to hold he sector accountable for its accurate financial reporting and documentation. I ask how these two divisions differ in its objectives and how to they regulate each party it governs. The Governmental Accounting
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Question 1: What are the primary goals and tenets of SOX with respect to fraud? The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was created to reduce financial statement fraud by two main congressmen; Senator Paul Sarbanes and Representative Michael OXLEY. The primary goal of the SOX was to fix auditing of US public companies ‚ also SOX improvement of the quality of audits in an attempt to eliminate fraud in order to protect the public’s interest‚ as well as for the protection of the investors (Donaldson‚ 2003)
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I. Background on SOX The Securities and Exchange Commission was created in 1934 to police the U.S. financial markets. The pioneers of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 saw a close connection between protecting investors and maintaining a healthy economy. In the past years‚ the SEC did not provide the regulation and control that might have prevented the worst results of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Its failures were of two kinds. First‚ succumbing to the deregulatory environment
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November 3‚ 2013 Accounting 305 FASB Codification 1. The relevant FASB codification standards are as follows… 1. 350 Intangibles – Goodwill & Other 1.2 20 Goodwill 1.3 35 Subsequent Measurement 1.3.1 Overall Accounting for Goodwill (35.1-3) 1.3.2 Recognition & Measurement of Impairment Loss & Step 1 of the Qualitative Assessment (35.3A-15) 1.3.4 Determine the Fair Value of a Reporting Unit (35.22-23) 1.3.5 Reporting Unit (35.33-38) 2. 280 Segment Reporting 2.1 10 Overall
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A sole trader business: • is owned by one person • has unlimited liability • is regarded as a separate entity for accounting purposes • is not a legal entity in its own right. A sole trader is a person who is the only owner of a business. A sole trader enjoys many advantages‚ including inexpensive start-up costs and a relatively simple process of establishment. The owner makes his/her own decisions and is entitled to all the profits of the business. However‚ a sole trader must bear all losses
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ACC 305 Intermediate Accounting The Role of FASB After the Stock Market Crash of 1929‚ many believers felt the crash was a result of inadequate and misleading financial statements which contributed to overstated stock prices‚ causing the crash and an the eventual depression. The Stock Market Cash proved the necessity for accounting standards. “Investors and creditors use financial information to make their resource allocation decisions. It’s critical that they be able to compare financial
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Holey Soles experienced rapid revenue growth. During this period‚ Holey significantly increased the production capacity‚ warehouse space and inventory in an effort to meet demand. Now Holey has excess manufacturing capacity beyond the actual manufacturing plan‚ this works extremely well when actual demand exceeds forecasted demand (pre-booked orders)‚ but is it robust enough to handle the opposite scenario? In other words‚ the model is “optimized” for large upswings in product demand‚ thus allowing
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followed‚ and was also put in place to help restore confidence in the financial market. SOX-Applies only to US companies on the US exchange‚ and is an Act put in place in 2002 to mandate all publicly traded corporations to maintain adequate internal control. SOX basically make sure that all US publicly traded corporation do what is in the best interest to protect the investment of stockholders. SOX-Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is an ACT that was put in place where all publicly traded U.S. corporations
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Accounting Standards The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) are working on a joint venture known as the convergence project. With more business’s doing business globally financial reporting is an issue among the differing countries. Some countries report their financial differently‚ while the United States uses Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) the convergence project aims at making a uniform set of international accounting
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