E2-1 (a) Accounting rule-making that relies on a body of concepts will result in useful and consistent pronouncements. TRUE (b) General-purpose financial reports are most useful to company insiders in making strategic business decisions. FALSE. General-purpose financial reporting helps users who lack the ability to demand all the financial information they need from an entity and therefore must rely, at least partly, on the information provided in financial reports. However, an implicit assumption is that users need reasonable knowledge of business and financial accounting matters to understand the information contained in financial statements.
Second, financially stressed companies that go dark are the very companies’ shareholders need to monitor usually and where transparency is most important. Clearly, SOX has both positive and negative effects. However, the implementation problems of the Act do not provide sufficient reason to weaken or eliminate SOX requirements or to adopt significant exemptions based on company size. 2. What advantages would China offer foreign companies to list on its exchanges?
Recommendation Brief for an Internal Accountant ACC/544 February 22, 2013 Fred Johnston Internal Auditor Recommendation Brief When a company like Whitfields has an out-of-control system they are subject to audits by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding their financial statements. The company can form a hiring team. The hiring team can consist of three or more internal auditors. An internal auditor will add value and help improve the company’s operations. Some of the duties would be Evaluate controls, advising managers, evaluating risk, analyze operations, confirming information, and reviewing compliance with the SEC.
The conceptual framework is a dominate form of normative accounting theory and Godfrey, et. al (2006, p. 412) dictate a conceptual framework in the context of financial accounting as “a definitive statement of the nature and purpose of financial accounting and reporting and which provides guidance for all accounting practice”. The Financial Accounting Standards Boards believes a conceptual framework to be integral as it adds a level of rigor and discipline that will result in more consistency in final statements and general modes of practice (The Financial Accounting Standards Board (2001). The primary function of this framework is to provide agreed standards, to remove the ambiguity and personalisation of the decision making process. Hence a conceptual framework is a firm example of normative accounting theory as it is prescriptive, detailing how practices should
Full disclosure requires that publicly traded businesses use accrual based accounting and revenues are recognized as sales are earned. Full disclosure also requires that footnotes describe accounting procedures and provide details for unusual transactions. With companies such as Enron and WorldCom, the accounting field has an increased need for businesses to tell the truth in its financial statements. Full disclosure acts as the obligation for businesses to be truthful in its statements in order to protect the parties
AU1 Assignment 2 Task 1: Purpose of auditing a. Information risk is the risk that the financial statements cannot appropriately present business activities, and provide false and/or misleading information to the financial statements users. There are some causes that arise information risk, two of them are: The first one is Asymmetry of information. It arises due to remoteness of information, bias or motivation of those providing information, high volumes of transactions and data, and the complexity of transaction. The second one is errors from weak accounting system.
This is an implausible trend on the Balance sheet that BDO should have investigated further, especially with Leslie Fay’s outstanding Income Statement. 2.) First of all I would want to investigate vendor and customer accounts to reconcile payable and receivable amounts. Also, I would obtain bank statements and other lines of credit since the long term debt to equity ratio shows the company being highly leveraged.
The consultation involves a determination on whether financial statement reporting follows regulations and guidelines established in the Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404. The consultation also includes identity of internal risks detected within Apollo Shoes. A brief synopsis of our responsibility concerning the detection and reporting of fraudulent activity follows at the end of this engagement letter. Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 An integral part of a financial audit includes an evaluation of the internal controls in the company's financial reporting. As an auditor, understanding and testing internal control over financial requires knowledge of standards applicable to the corporation established by GAAP or IFRS.
Financial Statements ACC/280 May 01, 2012 Edward Vargas Financial Statements Accounting is extremely important by monitoring the functions of the companies, and allowing them to make appropriate financial transactions and decisions. Some areas of accounting can seem confusing and difficult but in the end the outcome is clear and concise. There are two basic forms of accounting known as; financial and managerial accounting. Financial accounting responsibilities are to follow the General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) that is regulations for investor relations, creditors, and taxation purposes, whereas managerial accounting is for internal evaluation. There are different functions and categories that accounting
INTRODUCTION At times we may wonder what is meant by ethics, why accountants need ethics in their business life or even how they are related. As we may know, definitions of ethics vary with time but in most cases it is defined” With these definitions we can understand that basically ethics is knowing what is right (Mitchell 2009). Ethics in accounting and finance a global concern today (Onyebuchi, 2011). However, the accounting and finance sector has over the past years developed a culture of ethical misconduct (Gianneti & Yue Wang, 2014). According to Anup & Chadha (2005), Ethical misconducts often lead to corporate scandals that come with serious consequences e.g.