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Accounting ethics is primarily a field of applied ethics and is part of business ethics and human ethics, the study of moral values and judgments as they apply to accountancy. It is an example of professional ethics. Accounting was introduced by Luca Pacioli, and later expanded by government groups, professional organizations, and independent ...
Accounting for leases in financial statements of lessors: Accounting Interpretations of APB Opinion No. 7, Interpretation 1: AIN-APB7: Superseded by FAS 111 1971 November-1972 February: Equity Method of Accounting for investments in common Stock: Accounting Interpretations of APB Opinion No. 18, Interpretations 1-3: AIN-APB18: Amended by FAS 96
The philosophy of accounting is the conceptual framework for the professional preparation and auditing of financial statements and accounts.The issues which arise include the difficulty of establishing a true and fair value of an enterprise and its assets; the moral basis of disclosure and discretion; the standards and laws required to satisfy the political needs of investors, employees and ...
Joseph Edmund Sterrett outlined the debate and issues in setting up a Code of Professional Conduct in his address to the annual meeting of the American Association of Public Accountants in 1907 [2] The earliest "official" version of the code of professional conduct among American accountants was issued by the American Institute of Accountants on April 9, 1917.
The Accounting Professional & Ethical Standards Board (APESB) is an independent, national body that sets out the code of ethics and professional standards with which accounting professionals who are members of CPA Australia, Institute of Chartered Accountants or Institute of Public Accountants must comply. [1]
Under the AICPA's Code of Professional Ethics under Rule 203 – Accounting Principles, a member must depart from GAAP if following it would lead to a material misstatement on the financial statements, or otherwise be misleading. In the departure, the member must disclose, if practical, the reasons why compliance with the accounting principle ...
SAS No. 119, Supplementary Information in Relation to the Financial Statements as a Whole (issued February 2010); and; SAS No. 120, Required Supplementary Information (issued February 2010). SAS No. 122 also withdraws SAS No. 26, Association With Financial Statements, as amended. The AICPA is the source of the most up-to-date information.
Accounting practices of real estate investment trusts : proposal to Financial Accounting Standards Board to amend Statement of position 75-2 full-text: 1978 May 12 78-3: Accounting for costs to sell and rent, and initial rental operations of, real estate projects full-text: 1978 June 30 78-4