Group Case – FASB Comment Letters Dell Company FASB wants to institute a new regulation on the financial statements about the share-based payment‚ and for these procedure the organization releases on its webite an exposure draft on the subject. One of the reasons for sharing this information is to enhance the proposed techniques through collaboration of companies and / or individuals in the accounting area. Dell‚ an IT company that registered $2‚37 billion net income in 2013‚ was one of the companies
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FASB/GASB Comparison For-profit business is driven by profit earnings. Financial statements provide information in relation to that performance. For-profit businesses will prepare reports based on the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Not-for-profit businesses are not driven by the same motivations and are hold to the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Three distinctions set GASB organizations apart. 1) Receipt of significant recourses that are not expecting proportionate
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FASB Codification System Orientation Paper This paper will talk about what the FASB Codification System is‚ what the purpose of the FASB Codification System is‚ what the nine content areas located in the FASB Codification System are‚ and what types of items are located under each content area. What Is “The Codification is the single source of authoritative nongovernmental U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (US GAAP). The Codification is effective for interim and annual periods ending
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Reporting Council (FRC) announced that Australia would adopt the accounting standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) from 2005(Baxter 2005). After the first of July 2005‚ the new standards (IFRS) start to use across national border. companies would be required to report current results under IFRS and restate recent results. They will also have to report their latest results under the old accounting standard‚ which should make comparing results on a like-for-like basis relatively
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The IASB/FASB joint review conceptual framework states that there are two fundamental characteristics which are relevance and faithful representation and in addition there are four enhancing characteristics which are timeliness‚ verifiable‚ comparable and understandability which enhance the decision usefulness of financial information. For information content to be relevant it must have the ability to influence the economic decisions of users and help users to evaluate or assess past‚ present or
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Accounting Standard Board Tracy L Duran ACC/541 February 23‚ 2015 Leslie Crews Accounting Standard Board Introduction Accounting was created thousand years ago. Many companies use accounting system to record‚ maintain and report‚ and analyze business financial transactions. Because managers and investors make their business decisions base on the Financial Statement‚ the information that obtained from the Financial Statement must be concise and reliability. Budgets and performance reports provide
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value in the new standards specifically. Finally in combination with the concrete background in China‚ we put forward some advices on the carrying out of the fair value in the accounting practice. [Key words] Fair Value; China new accounting standard Since January 1‚ 2007‚ the China new accounting standards will become mandatory for listed Chinese enterprises. The adoption of the new China accounting standards system brings about substantial convergence between Chinese standards and International
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The Similarity and Difference between FASB & GASB Financial Reporting Saintania Bien-Aime Governmental/ Institutional Accounting: ACG4501 Keiser University April 15‚ 2012 Abstract The accounting and financial reporting standards are one of the source that profit businesses and governmental not-for-profit organizations‚ which has been created by the Accounting standards Board (FASB). However‚ accounting and financial reporting standards that apply for state and local governments in America
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FASB Codification System Orientation Paper Introduction Becoming an accountant there are many guidelines and regulations that one must become aware of. The FASB assists in establishing these guidelines through generally accepted accounting principles‚ GAAP. As an accountant one must follow GAAP while producing any reports for a business. Consequently‚ the author will explore the FASB Codification System‚ its purpose‚ and contents. The FASB Codification System The FASB Codification Systems
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an independent‚ private sector organization‚ established the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to establish and improve standards of financial accounting and reporting for nongovernmental entities. FASB has been the designated organization in the private sector for establishing standards of financial accounting that governs the preparation of financial reports by nongovernmental entities. The standards officially recognized as authoritative by the Securities and Exchange Commission are
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