examine how certain professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting ‘‘reliability’’ and ‘‘relevance’’ of proposed standards. Notably, we find FASB members with backgrounds in financial services are more likely to propose standards that decrease ‘‘reliability’’ and increase ‘‘relevance,’’ partly due to their tendency to propose fair-value methods. We find opposite results for FASB members affiliated with the Democratic Party, although only when
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CHAPTER 5 Revenue Recognition after Delivery * Assumes we are able to make reasonable estimates of amounts due from customers that potentially might be uncollectible. * For product sales this also includes amounts not collectible due to customers returning the products they purchased. Installment Sales * Increasing the length of time allowed for payment usually increases the uncertainty about whether the store actually will collect a receivable * The increased uncertainty concerning
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ACC 100 - 201 Chapter 1: Accounting Communication - An Introduction (Pages 1-21, 25-26) Focus On Financial Results Canadian National Railway Company (CN) * Generated $7.9 billion in revenues; $2.2 billion in income after expenses and income taxes * Owed $5.6 billion to creditors; Assets of $23.5 billion Organization - a collection of individuals pursuing the same goal or objective. Ex: Student groups, a government, a business, a club, or a charity * Need financial information
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Highlights of IFRS Research By CYNTHIA BOLT-LEE, CPA and L. MURPHY SMITH, CPA, DBA NOVEMBER 2009 Conversion from U.S. GAAP to IFRS is a heavily discussed topic in the corporate world. Expected benefits of adoption include reporting consistency, enhanced global competition and improved financial reporting transparency. While many countries worldwide have already adopted IFRS, many other countries are closely examining its effects before adoption, not only from an economic perspective but
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compliance to the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). Rules-based accounting standards are governed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) which primarily uses a GAAP accounting versus the International Accounting Standard Board (IASB) that uses IFRS principle-based accounting. Although both boards use rules as a foundation to accounting the IASB
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Research Articles Emissions Trading and Carbon Credit Accounting for Sustainable Energy Development With Focus on India A. N. Sarkar Senior Professor (International Business), Asia-Pacific Institute of Management, New Delhi, India Abstract Global climate change is inextricably linked with the enhanced build-up of greenhouse gases. Emissions- trading in the form of carbon credits or CERs is opening up a new vista of trade opportunities with prospect for gradual reduction of emissions particularly
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ACG 3401 Study Guide Exam 1 Accountants Roles * Management accountant * Internal auditor * Information systems auditor * External auitor * Tax accountant * Fraud examiner * Managerial Accountant * Provides info for mngmt decisions * Knowledge base: * * * * Business processes * Accounting information sustems * Internal controls * Managerial accouting techniques * Impact of
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| | accelerated-depreciation methods Depreciation methods that allow for higher depreciation charges in the early years and lower charges in later periods. Termed accelerated because these methods allow for higher early depreciation changes than the straight-line method allows. Also called decreasing-charge methods. Generally, companies use one of two decreasing-charge methods: sum-of-the-years'-digits or declining-balance. account sales A report, prepared by the consignee for the consignor
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CHAPTER 16 DILUTIVE SECURITIES AND EARNINGS PER SHARE IFRS questions are available at the end of this chapter. TRUe-FALSe—Dilutive Securities—Conceptual Answer No. Description T 1. Accounting for convertible bond issue. F 2. Reporting gain/loss on convertible debt retirement. T 3. Reporting additional payment to encourage conversion. F 4. Exercise of convertible preferred stock. F 5. Convertible preferred stock exercise. T 6. Allocating proceeds between debt and detachable
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Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc.—Leases EXCERPTED WITH PERMISSION FROM CASES IN FINANCIAL REPORTING EIGHTH EDITION ISBN: 978-1-61853-122-3 MICHAEL DRAKE ELLEN ENGEL D. ERIC HIRST MARY LEA MCANALLY © Copyright 2015 by Cambridge Business Publishers, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form for any purpose without the written permission of the publisher. This document is authorized for use by Hongxia Chai, from 4/29/2015 to 7/31/2015, in
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