Relevance Concept: Information should be relevant to the decision making needs of the user. Information is relevant if it helps users of the financial statements in predicting future trends of the business (Predictive Value) or confirming or correcting any past predictions they have made (Confirmatory Value). Same piece of information which assists users in confirming their past predictions may also be helpful in forming future forecasts. Reliability Concept: Information is reliable if
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Carter and Barker (2010) describe bibliography as a twofold scholarly discipline—the organized listing of books (enumerative bibliography) and the systematic, description of books as physical objects (descriptive bibliography). These two distinct concepts and practices have separate rationales and serve differing purposes. Innovators and originators in the field include W. W. Greg, Fredson Bowers, Philip Gaskell, and G. Thomas Tanselle. Bowers (1949) refers to enumerative bibliography as a procedure
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Accounting Presentation Group members The Accounting Information of System The Personnel, procedures, devices, and records used by an organization to develop accounting information and communicate that information to decision makers The accounting process Economic activities Accounting “links” decision makers with economic activities and with the results of their decisions. Decision makers Accounting information Actions (decisions) Types of Accounting Information
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Summary IAS 8 Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors as issued at 1 January 2012. Includes IFRSs with an effective date after 1 January 2012 but not the IFRSs they will replace. This extract has been prepared by IFRS Foundation staff and has not been approved by the IASB. For the requirements reference must be made to International Financial Reporting Standards. The objective of this Standard is to prescribe the criteria for selecting and changing accounting policies, together
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Semester –I ITM UNIVERSITY, NEW RAIPUR Master of Business Administration Semester –I List of subject for Academic Session 2012 – 13. Serial No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. List of Subjects Principles of Management Managerial Economics Financial Accounting Environment Management Quantitative Techniques Business Legislation Communication Skills- I Computers for Managers ITM UNIVERSITY, RAIPUR Master of Business Administration Subject: Principles of Management Semester-I Unit I Introduction - Nature
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Limitation of historical cost accounting Historical cost accounting: assets are recorded at the amounts paid/ received at acquisition Problem: +) inflation, +) increase in asset values are not reflected in financial statements (wearing out of assets, increase in market value) Advantage: +) objective method: documentary evidence to prove the purchase price of an asset, or amounts paid as expense. +) costs can easily be verified. * Alternative method of accounting that have been developed
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Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) are rules and guidelines established to attempt to standardize accounting and recording practices across the United States and Internationally. International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is a set of international accounting standards stating how particular types of transactions and other events should be reported in financial statements. IFRS uses fair-value accounting of assets and liabilities. GAAP also known as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
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doesn't appear in the newspaper headlines – issues such as: * do directors have to be accounting standard gurus? * how do directors spot the ticking bomb buried deep in a massive board pack? Background ASIC argued that Centro's directors had breached their duties under sections 180 and 344 of the Corporations Act, because its 2007 annual accounts had not complied with the Corporations Act and the accounting standards: * the accounts had misclassified a number of borrowings as non-current
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Research Journal of Finance and Accounting ISSN 2222-1697 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2847 (Online) Vol 3, No 8, 2012 www.iiste.org COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FAIR VALUE AND HISTORICAL COST ACCOUNTING ON REPORTED PROFIT: A STUDY OF SELECTED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN NIGERIA BESSONG, PETER KEKUNG and CHARLES, EFFIONG DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR, P.M.B.1115, CALABAR, CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA Tel: +234 8037079607 ABSTRACT This study aimed to critically
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Executive Summary Accounting concepts are the rules and guidelines used in accountancy and one of these is the historical cost accounting. This concept is an accounting technique that values an asset on the balance sheet at the price paid for the asset at the time of its acquisition. Moreover, the historical cost accounting is the situation in which accountants record revenue, expenditure and asset acquisition and disposal at historical cost. This means the actual amounts of money, or money’s
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