Download or read book Studies on Recognition Measurement and Disclosure Issues in Accounting written by Conference on Research in Accounting and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Accounting for brands according to US GAAP and IAS written by Stefan Greite and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: In der heutigen Wirtschaft werden Unternehmenswert und Wachstum hauptsächlich durch immaterielle Vermögensgüter erzeugt. Marken spielen eine besonders wichtige Rolle in diesem Zusammenhang. Ziel dieser Arbeit war es aufzuzeigen wie speziell Marken und Markennamen in Bilanzen und Jahresabschlüssen behandelt werden. Die Besonderheiten der Rechnungslegung für Marken, die Probleme der Bewertung und die Möglichkeiten welche durch die Aufnahme in die Bilanz entstehen, werden sowohl nach US-GAAP als auch nach IAS betrachtet. Die Abhandlung ist aufgrund ihrer internationalen Aktualität auf Englisch verfasst, aber auch für den deutschsprachigen Leser sehr gut verständlich. In today s economy wealth and growth are mainly driven by intangible assets. In a knowledge-based economy the success of an enterprise is driven by intangible factors, while control over physical resources becomes progressively unimportant. In most successful companies, brands and other intangible assets outperform physical assets by a notable margin. Brands, the most valuable and sustainable corporate assets, and trademarks play an especially important role. This paper aims to show how to account for brand names in financial statements according to US-GAAP and IAS. The objectives of this paper are to present and discuss the disclosure of brands as intangible assets, in the balance sheet according to US-GAAP and IAS. Therefore, the recognition criteria of both accounting regulations will be examined. The initial and subsequent measurement techniques will be discussed, and problems in this field will be exposed and criticized. The paper also aims to show criticisms of the current regulations and to discuss possible future developments. New ideas and solutions for the problems arising with the disclosure and measurement of intangible assets and brands will be presented and discussed in Chapter four. Chapter five will include a summary of the findings and a critical statement about the problems discussed in this paper. Inhaltsverzeichnis:Table of Contents: Table of contentsII AbbreviationsIII 1.Introduction5 1.1Presentation of a problem5 1.2Objectives6 1.3Order of events7 1.4Literature7 2.Task and requirements of accounting for brands7 3.Disclosure of brands9 3.1Useful Terms9 3.1.1Definition of brands9 3.1.2Definition of assets11 3.1.3Definition of intangible assets13 3.1.3.1US-GAAP13 3.1.3.2IAS13 3.1.4Further explanation of useful [...]

Download or read book Accounting Disclosure and Real Effects written by Chandra Kanodia and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kanodia presents a new approach to the study of accounting measurement that argues that how firms' economic transactions, earnings, and capital flows are measured and reported to the capital markets has substantial effects on the firms' real decisions and on the allocation of resources.

Download or read book A Real Effects Perspective to Accounting Measurement and Disclosure written by Chandra Kanodia and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting measurement and disclosure rules have a significant impact on the real decisions that firms make. In this essay, we provide an analytical framework to illustrate how such real effects arise. Using this framework, we examine three specific measurement issues that remain controversial: (1) How does the measurement of investments affect a firm's investment efficiency? (2) How does the measurement and disclosure of a firm's derivative transactions affect a firm's choice of intrinsic risk exposures, risk management strategy, and the incentive to speculate? (3) How could marking-to-market the asset portfolios of financial institutions generate procyclical real effects? We draw upon these real effects studies to generate sharper and novel insights that we believe are useful not only for the development of accounting standards, but also for guiding future empirical research.

Download or read book Losing the Excess Baggage written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Studies in Accounting and Finance Contemporary Issues and Debates written by Basu and Saha and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in Accounting and Finance: Contemporary Issues and Debates, useful for business executives, accounting and finance practitioners, researchers, and students discusses contemporary issues in accounting and finance. Topics discussed include globalization of accounting standards, accounting for financial instruments, fair value accounting, accounting for intangibles, corporate governance and accounting, accounting for social and environmental costs, accounting for employee stock option plans, obstacles to the development of high-quality accounting standards, small company reporting, accounting ethics, technology reporting, and global economic meltdown.

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Accounting Reporting and Regulation written by Carien van Mourik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial accounting, reporting and regulation is a vast subject area of huge global importance, with interest rising significantly in the light of the ongoing global financial crisis. The authors begin with a broad overview of the subject of accounting, setting the stage for a discussion on the theoretical and practical issues and debates regarding financial reporting, which are expanded on in the second part of the book. This includes how to define the reporting entity, recognition and measurement of the elements of financial statements, fair values in financial reporting and the costs and benefits of disclosure. The third part assesses the interest, need and theories behind the accounting, reporting and regulation industry, while parts four and five look at the institutional, social and economic aspects; with issues such as accounting for environmental management and, accounting regulation and financial reporting in Islamic countries, both issues of ever increasing importance. This authoritative Companion presents a broad overview of the state of these disciplines today, and will provide a comprehensive reference source for students and academics involved in accounting, regulation and reporting.

Download or read book Studies in Accounting and Finance written by Arun Kumar Basu and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book GAAP Financial Statement Disclosures Manual 2019 2020 written by George Georgiades and published by CCH Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The GAAP Financial Statement Disclosures Manual provides a complete, quick, and valuable reference source for financial statement disclosures and key presentation requirements. Specifically, the Manual: - Provides over 750 examples of realistic sample footnote disclosures to assist in the preparation of financial statements for an audit, a review, or a compilation engagement. - Facilitates compliance with U.S. GAAP by integrating, in each chapter, the specific disclosure and key presentation requirements with the sample footnotes. - Provides sample disclosures that are technically sound, understandable, and comprehensive and that cover a variety of scenarios, from the most common to the most unusual. - Incorporates all currently effective accounting standards, including those that cover areas of unusual difficulty, such as revenue recognition, financial instruments, fair value, business combinations, consolidation, income taxes, pensions, leases, accounting changes, and variable interest entities. This Manual is arranged into the following major parts, consistent with the Codification''s structural organization: - Part 1 General Principles (ASC Topics 100s) - Part 2 Presentation (ASC Topics 200s) - Part 3 Assets (ASC Topics 300s) - Part 4 Liabilities (ASC Topics 400s) - Part 5 Equity (ASC Topics 500s) - Part 6 Revenue (ASC Topics 600s) - Part 7 Expenses (ASC Topics 700s) - Part 8 Broad Transactions (ASC Topics 800s) The Manual is designed for ease of use. Accordingly, each chapter is structured as a stand-alone chapter, providing you with all the information you''ll need on a specific topic. The majority of chapters consist of the following parts: 1. Executive Summary. This section provides a clear and concise overview of the specific financial statement topic. 2. Authoritative Accounting Literature. This section provides reference to the relevant FASB ASC Topic. 3. Disclosure and Key Presentation Requirements. This section provides a detailed listing of (a) the disclosure requirements (FASB ASC Section 50) and (b) those key presentation requirements (FASB ASC Section 45) that are relevant to enhance compliance with and better understand the disclosure requirements. This section also provides specific references to the FASB ASC paragraphs that prescribe the specific disclosure or key presentation requirement. Some of the items included in this section do not refer to any specific authoritative literature. Nevertheless, the disclosure or presentation items they address are considered informative for users of the financial statements and usually are disclosed or presented. These disclosures or presentation items are generally accepted by accountants and auditors and, accordingly, are referenced as "Generally accepted practice" in this section. 4. Examples of Financial Statement Disclosures. This section contains specific examples of disclosures that cover different situations, circumstances, assumptions, and so on. Unless specifically indicated, the examples provided assume that the most recent financial statements presented are for the year ended December 31, 20X2. The 2019-2020 GAAP Financial Statement Disclosures Manual is current through FASB Accounting Standards Update No. 2019-03, Not-for-Profit Entities (Topic 958): Updating the Definition of Collections. Material can be located several ways: the Cross-Reference shows the chapter in which a particular pronouncement is discussed; the Index provides a quick page reference. CONTENTS: The GAAP Financial Statement Disclosures Manual includes the following topics: Part 1--General Principles ASC Topic 105: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Part 2--Presentation ASC Topic 205: Presentation of Financial Statements ASC Topic 210: Balance Sheet ASC Topic 215: Statement of Shareholder Equity ASC Topic 220: Income Statement--Reporting Comprehensive Income ASC Topic 225 (Superseded): Income Statement ASC Topic 230: Statement of Cash Flows ASC Topic 235: Notes to Financial Statements ASC Topic 250: Accounting Changes and Error Corrections ASC Topic 255: Changing Prices ASC Topic 260: Earnings Per Share ASC Topic 270: Interim Reporting ASC Topic 272: Limited Liability Entities ASC Topic 275: Risks and Uncertainties ASC Topic 280: Segment Reporting Part 3--Assets ASC Topic 305 (Superseded): Cash and Cash Equivalents ASC Topic 310: Receivables ASC Topic 320: Investments--Debt and Equity Securities ASC Topic 321: Investments--Equity Securities ASC Topic 323: Investments--Equity Method and Joint Ventures ASC Topic 325: Investments--Other ASC Topic 326: Financial Instruments--Credit Losses ASC Topic 330: Inventory ASC Topic 340: Other Assets and Deferred Costs ASC Topic 350: Intangibles--Goodwill and Other ASC Topic 360: Property, Plant, and Equipment Part 4--Liabilities ASC Topic 405: Liabilities ASC Topic 410: Asset Retirement and Environmental Obligations ASC Topic 420: Exit or Disposal Cost Obligations ASC Topic 430: Deferred Revenue ASC Topic 440: Commitments ASC Topic 450: Contingencies ASC Topic 460: Guarantees ASC Topic 470: Debt ASC Topic 480: Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity Part 5--Equity ASC Topic 505: Equity Part 6--Revenue ASC Topic 605: Revenue Recognition ASC Topic 606: Revenue from Contracts with Customers ASC Topic 610: Other Income Part 7--Expenses ASC Topic 705: Cost of Sales and Services ASC Topic 710: Compensation--General ASC Topic 712: Compensation--Nonretirement Postemployment Benefits ASC Topic 715: Compensation--Retirement Benefits ASC Topic 718: Compensation--Stock Compensation ASC Topic 720: Other Expenses ASC Topic 730: Research and Development ASC Topic 740: Income Taxes Part 8--Broad Transactions ASC Topic 805: Business Combinations ASC Topic 808: Collaborative Arrangements ASC Topic 810: Consolidation ASC Topic 815: Derivatives and Hedging ASC Topic 820: Fair Value Measurement ASC Topic 825: Financial Instruments ASC Topic 830: Foreign Currency Matters ASC Topic 835: Interest ASC Topic 840: Leases ASC Topic 842: Leases ASC Topic 845: Nonmonetary Transactions ASC Topic 850: Related Party Disclosures ASC Topic 852: Reorganizations ASC Topic 853: Service Concession Arrangements ASC Topic 855: Subsequent Events ASC Topic 860: Transfers and Servicing Accounting Resources on the Web Cross-Reference to Pre-Codification Accounting Literature Index ABOUT THE AUTHOR: George Georgiades, CPA, has more than 38 years of experience in public accounting, including seven years as an audit senior manager with a major international accounting firm. He currently has his own firm and consults with CPA firms, public companies, and private companies on technical accounting, auditing, and financial reporting and disclosure issues. He works closely with senior partners in charge of the quality control and accounting and auditing technical functions at several CPA firms. He has served as an engagement quality reviewer on hundreds of audit engagements related to financial statements of both small, closely held companies and large, publicly held enterprises. Also, he has personally conducted more than 75 peer reviews, consulting reviews, and inspections and brings to the Manual extensive hands-on experience in performing independent technical reviews of financial statements. Mr. Georgiades is also the author of the GAAS Practice Manual and the GAAS Update Service and has contributed extensively to several other publications. He is also author of numerous articles, continuing education courses, and periodicals on issues related to audit quality and financial reporting. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants, and served on the California Society of CPAs'' Peer Review Committee.

Download or read book Research Standard Setting and Global Financial Reporting written by Mary E. Barth and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research, Standard Setting, and Global Financial Reporting aids researchers in conducting research relevant to global financial reporting issues, particularly those of interest to financial reporting standard setters. Research, Standard Setting, and Global Financial Reporting describes the relation between research and standard-setting issues; explains how a variety of research designs can be used to address questions motivated by standard-setting issues, including valuation research and event studies; offers examples of research addressing a specific global standard-setting issue - use of fair value in measuring accounting amounts; offers further opportunities for future research on specific standard-setting topics by providing motivating questions relating to the major topics on the agendas of the FASB and IASB; explains how the IASB aims to achieve its mission of developing a single set of high quality accounting standards that are accepted worldwide; summarizes extant evidence on the relative quality of accounting amounts across global standard-setting regimes and whether global financial reporting is achievable or even desirable. Research, Standard Setting, and Global Financial Reporting examines opportunities for future research on issues related to globalization of financial reporting by identifying motivating questions that are potentially avenues for future research.

Download or read book Studies on Accounting Financial Disclosures and the Law written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the annual Conference on Accounting Research, held at the University of Chicago.

Download or read book International Financial Reporting Standards IFRS Workbook and Guide written by Abbas A. Mirza and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Workbook and Guide is a one stop resource for understanding and applying current International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and offers: Easy-to-understand explanations of all IFRSs/IASs and IFRICs/SICs issued by the IASB/IASC up to March 2006 Illustrative examples Practical insights Worked case studies Multiple-choice questions with solutions Technically reviewed by Liesel Knorr, Secretary General of the German Accounting Standards Committee and former technical director of the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC). Forewords by: Sir David Tweedie, Chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) Philippe Richard, Secretary General of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)

Download or read book Fair Value Accounting for Financial Instruments written by Wayne R. Landsman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I identify issues that bank regulators need to consider if fair value accounting is used for determining bank regulatory capital and when making regulatory decisions. In financial reporting, US and international accounting standard setters have issued several disclosure and measurement and recognition standards for financial instruments and all indications are that both standard setters will mandate recognition of all financial instruments at fair value. To help identify important issues for bank regulators, I briefly review capital market studies that examine the usefulness of fair value accounting to investors, and discuss marking-to-market implementation issues of determining financial instruments' fair values. In doing so, I identify several key issues. First, regulators need to consider how to let managers reveal private information in their fair value estimates while minimising strategic manipulation of model inputs to manage income and regulatory capital. Second, regulators need to consider how best to minimise measurement error in fair values to maximise their usefulness to investors and creditors when making investment decisions, and to ensure bank managers have incentives to select investments that maximise economic efficiency of the banking system. Third, cross-country institutional differences are likely to play an important role in determining the effectiveness of using mark-to-market accounting for financial reporting and bank regulation.

Download or read book Accounting and Auditing Research written by Thomas R. Weirich and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting and Auditing Research, 10th Edition prepares students and early-stage practitioners to use well-established research solutions in a broad range of practical applications, from financial accounting and tax planning, to investigating fraud and auditing various business problems. Emphasizing real-world skills development, this fully-updated textbook covers the current tools, techniques, and best practices in applied professional research and analysis. The authors provide comprehensive yet accessible coverage of the entire research process, explaining how to utilize major research databases and audit software packages in a clear and systematic manner. The tenth edition features carefully revised content designed to enhance effectiveness, increase readability, and strengthen learning and retention. The book’s classroom-proven pedagogy features expert tips for performing common research tasks, sidebar boxes that summarize and expand upon key concepts, and a variety of end-of-chapter exercises that reinforce the material and develop readers’ skills.

Download or read book Accounting Theory written by Harry I. Wolk and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-06-04 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated Ninth Edition of Accounting Theory: Conceptual Issues in a Political and Economic Environment continues to be one of the most relevant and comprehensive texts on accounting theory. Authors Harry I. Wolk, James L. Dodd, John J. Rozycki provide a critical overview of accounting as a whole as well as touch on the financial issues in economic and political contexts, providing readers with an applied understanding of how current United States accounting standards were derived and where we might be headed in the future. Readers will find learning tools such as questions, cases, problems and writing assignments to solidify their understanding of accounting theory and gain new insights into this evolving field.

Download or read book Studies on Credible Financial Reporting written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the annual Conference on Accounting Research, held at the University of Chicago, sponsored by KPMG Peat Marwick Foundation.

Download or read book Accounting for Financial Instruments written by Karsten Eisenschmidt and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting for financial instruments according to international standards is one of the most sophisticated tasks for standard setters and preparers. Existing empirical research on this topic is rare and mainly concentrates on industry or national situations. Therefore, further research and especially empirical studies are needed to get a better understanding of the recognition, measurement and disclosure of financial instruments. This paper provides current evidence on the practical relevance of financial assets and liabilities in European publicly traded companies listed in the STOXX Europe 600 for the fiscal year 2015. A content analysis shows that financial assets have a stronger importance in the financial industry as in the non-financial industry. We can also demonstrate that a fair value measurement for financial assets and liabilities is only important for the financial industry, while the average usage in the non-financial industry is marginal. Moreover, the critical level 3 fair value, which is based on unobservable data, has only a very low importance in both industries. The often mentioned critique that fair values are not objective and not verifiable is, therefore, unfounded. Surprisingly, we identified substantial problems in the disclosure quality of financial assets and liabilities' data in the notes which cannot be explained by company specific variables. Especially this finding demonstrates that the comparability of financial statements is not always given and does not improve the usefulness for the various stakeholders and their investment decisions. Researchers are invited to conduct additional studies for other periods and samples which can be helpful to gain further insights as well as to improve the current disclosure shortcomings.