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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_____________________________________________________________________ As you concerned‚ our company need to start report comprehensive income. I made several searches for that. In this memo‚ I will illustrate comprehensive income‚ FASB codification‚ and comprehensive income‚ locate and extract relevant information and authoritatively support for the financial report. Comprehensive Income & Net Income Net income shows a company’s total earning and profit. Comprehensive
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becoming increasingly contentious and providing a hurdle to convergence between GASB and IASB is accounting for Financial Instruments. The financial crisis of 2008 had devastating consequences for the financial markets everywhere. Blame was widely spread and both IASB and GASB considered making changes in the accounting of financial instruments‚ particularly the delayed recognition of credit losses on loans. FASB and IASB began working together‚ but found irreconcilable differences in their solutions to
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Accounting Standards Boards “The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) are currently working on a joint venture referred to as the convergence project” (University of Phoenix‚ 2013‚ p. 1). As a result‚ both Boards have agreed to meet a deadline of June 2011 for the convergence of the accounting guidelines to be complete. Understanding their history and their relationship can help students in the MSA program to get ready for the working
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2015 Herber Howard To: Supervisor From: Frank Mattair Date: April 20‚ 2015 Subject: FASB Research Results and Recommendations The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) website contains accounting information and is a good source for data pertaining to any issue. Answers to the information in question to leases and lease structure issues were found on the FASB website. Research was primarily focused on three lease types‚ direct financing‚ sales type‚ and operating leases
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Client Clarification Memo Sammy Shelton ACC/541 – Accounting Theory and Research July 23‚ 2011 Memo To: Client From: Team B Date: August 6‚ 2012 Re: The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) defines a contingency as a possible future event that will have some impact on the firm. The decision to report contingencies should be based on the principle of disclosure. Namely‚ when the disclosure of an event adds to the information content of financial statements‚ it should be reported
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MEMO To: Client From: Accounting Firm Re: Lawsuit Pending lawsuits against a company are both expensive and detrimental to a company’s image. The decision to understand the implications of a lawsuit to the company is the first step in minimizing risk and potential loss to the organization. Research was conducted based on the guidelines of the FASB to answer the client’s questions pertaining to the lawsuit. The memo provided to the client will answer the following questions: How are
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1. You use a perpetual inventory system and value the inventory using FIFO. Prior to making adjusting year-end entries you valued the inventory at the lower-of-cost or-market. Justify why you valued the inventory at lower-of-cost or-market. FASB ASC CITATION: Adjustments to Lower of Cost or Market 330-10-35-1 A departure from the cost basis of pricing the inventory is required when the utility of the goods is no longer as great as their cost. Where there is evidence that the utility of goods‚
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To: FASB / IASB From: Billy Leigh Re: Proposed Changes to Financial Statement Presentation Dear Members of IASB / FASB‚ As I understand it‚ the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) are proposing a joint venture to change the presentation of financial statements. I appreciate the opportunity to comment on the proposed changes. It is in my humble opinion that the current requirements for financial statement presentation
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Chapter 16 codification assignment 1. Identify what authoritative literature addresses accounting for stock compensation plans. What are the objectives for the accounting for share based compensation? 718-10-10-1 The objective of accounting for transactions under share-based payment arrangements with employees is to recognize in the financial statements the employee services received in exchange for equity instruments issued or liabilities incurred and the related cost to the entity as
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