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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 .
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 ...
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leases in financial statements of lessors: Accounting Interpretations of APB Opinion No. 7, Interpretation 1: AIN-APB7: Superseded by FAS 111 1971 November-1972 February: Equity Method of Accounting for investments in common Stock: Accounting Interpretations of APB Opinion No. 18,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
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 ...
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.
Accounting by participating mortgage loan borrowers full-text: 1997 May 9 97-2: Software revenue recognition full-text: 1997 October 27 97-3: Accounting by insurance and other enterprises for insurance-related assessments full-text: 1997 December 10 98-1: Accounting for the costs of computer software developed or obtained for internal use full ...
Personal financial statements guide, with conforming changes as of September 1, 1997 full-text: 39-06: 1999: Personal financial statements guide, with conforming changes as of May 1, 1999 full-text: 39-07: 2000: Personal financial statements guide, with conforming changes as of May 1, 2000 full-text: 39-08: 2001
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) [a] of Canada provided the framework of broad guidelines, conventions, rules and procedures of accounting.In early 2006, the AcSB decided to completely converge Canadian GAAP with international GAAP, i.e. International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), as set by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), for most entities that must ...