International Accounting Standards and Selected Middle East Stock Exchanges Besalet Basoglu and Ahmed Goma Manhattan College Email: bbasoglu@manhattan.edu Agoma@manhattan.edu JEL Classifications: G1, M4, O5 Keywords: Middle East Stock Exchanges, International Accounting Standards, GAAP, IASC 1. International Accounting Standards and Selected Middle East Stock Exchanges In an effort to generate comparable and reliable accounting information to help investors, creditors and others
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| US | JAPAN | CHINA | GERMANY | NETHERLAND | FRANCE | PROFESSIONALISM | Regulation environment:1. accounting is regulated by private-sector body(FASB), but government underpins the authority of its standards. 2. no legal requirement for the publication of FS3. each state has its own corporate statutes and not rigorously enforced. Reports rendered to local agencies are often unavailable to the public4. only listed companies have compulsory requrirements for FR at the federal level as specified
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Week 8 Assignment: Multinational Acquisition PepsiCo & Quaker Oats “Multinational Acquisition: PepsiCo & Quaker Oats” Briefly describe the acquisition you have selected. PepsiCo, Inc. is a multinational corporation with product sales in over 200 countries and territories. One billion times per day, PepsiCo customers consume one of their numerous food and beverage products. The merger agreement between PepsiCo and Quaker Oats dated December 2, 2000 (completed
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increase in globalization coupled with related regulations has given rise to the need for a common set of global accounting standards – International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Leading the charge, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), formerly known as the International Accounting Standards Committee, has begun a movement toward harmonization and convergence of GAAP. More than 100 countries currently use IFRS, so if your business goals include global expansion, it is critical
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Contracts with Customers The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) have publishing this exposure draft as revenue is a vital number that financial statement users use to value a company’s performance. Both Boards require improvements in their revenue recognition requirements, therefore joined forces to refine the principles for revenue recognition. The goal of the FASB and the IASB is to “develop a common” revenue recognition principle that
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CHAPTER 19 ACCOUNTING FOR INCOME TAXES IFRS questions are available at the end of this chapter. TRUe-FALSe—Conceptual Answer No. Description F 1. Taxable income. F 2. Use of pretax financial income. T 3. Taxable amounts. T 4. Deferred tax liability. F 5. Deductible amounts. T 6. Deferred tax asset. F 7. Need for valuation allowance account. T 8. Positive and negative evidence. F 9. Computation of income tax expense. T 10. Taxable temporary differences. F 11
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in a foreign currency raises accounting issues: when transactions are made in foreign currencies, when foreign subsidiaries consolidate their results to the parent company, and when debt is acquired in foreign currencies. True False 3. FASB 52 requires that companies record foreign currency based transactions at the spot rate at the time of the transaction. True False 4. Consolidation is when a company's various results are aggregated into one report. True False
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of the contemporary business environment which have made accounting bodies, especially The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is a private, not-for-profit organization whose primary purpose is to establish and improve generally accepted accounting principles within the United States in the public's interest.) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) is the independent, accounting standard-setting body of the IFRS Foundation. (1986, pp.152-154), to probe for a number of alternative
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ACC 300 Entire Course To purchase this Tutorial click below link : http://homeworkgallery.com/index.php/product/acc-300-entire-course-2/ ACC 300 Week 1 – Individual Assignment – Chapter Two – Brief Exercises. ACC 300 Week 1 Individual Assignment Chapter 2: Brief Exercises BE2-8, BE2- 9, and BE2-10 ACC 300 Week 2 – Learning Team Assignment. In this excel file ACC 300 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment you will find overview of the following sheets: 1. Demonstration Case 2-1
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Chapter 01 Introduction to International Accounting Multiple Choice Questions 1. Which of the following groups is a supranational organization? A) United Nations B) Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development C) International Federation of Accountants D) All of the above Answer: D Level: Easy LO: 1 2. Determination of net present value involves: A) forecasting future profits and cash flows.
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