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One of the key reasons many investors and analysts pay attention to critical accounting policies is that their subjective nature is believed to be ripe for abuse through creative accounting, especially slush fund accounting. In slush fund accounting, excess earnings from a good quarter or year are hidden by changing the subjective element of a ...
Technical Information Service Inquiries and Replies included in AICPA Technical Practice Aids; Accounting textbooks, handbooks, and articles. The FASB issues an Accounting Standards Update (Update or ASU) to communicate changes to the FASB Codification, including changes to non-authoritative SEC content. ASUs are not authoritative standards. [5]
Internal control, as defined by accounting and auditing, is a process for assuring of an organization's objectives in operational effectiveness and efficiency, reliable financial reporting, and compliance with laws, regulations and policies. A broad concept, internal control involves everything that controls risks to an organization.
Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors (2003) 1978 January 1, 1979: IAS 9: Accounting for Research and Development Activities 1978 January 1, 1980: July 1, 1999: IAS 38: IAS 10: Contingencies and Events Occurring After the Balance Sheet Date (1978) Events After the Balance Sheet Date (1999) Events after the Reporting ...
Accounting standards prescribe in considerable detail what accruals must be made, how the financial statements are to be presented, and what additional disclosures are required. The term generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) was popularized in the late 1930s.
Management accounting is an applied discipline used in various industries. The specific functions and principles followed can vary based on the industry. Management accounting principles in banking are specialized but do have some common fundamental concepts used whether the industry is manufacturing-based or service-oriented.
As was typical of early management accounting practice after the industrial revolution, it was a topic of interest to engineers. Church discussed practices that conveyed the management accounting principles of causality and analogy but never formally defined them. The content of this series was reprinted in The History of Accounting Journal in ...
Accounting research examines how accounting is used by individuals, organizations and government as well as the consequences that these practices have. Starting from the assumption that accounting both measures and makes visible certain economic events, accounting research has studied the roles of accounting in organizations and society and the consequences that these practices have for ...