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Specific Identification Method My wife manages Stark Carpet’s San Francisco showroom. Their offerings include antique Oriental and Persian rugs with retail values in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. This kind of inventory fits the specific identification method’s criteria i.e., high-end/price, low volume sales that track each inventory item individually as either a cost of goods sold on the income statement or a remaining asset on the balance sheet. Dr. Walther presented specific…

Kyle Kakalia International Accounting Case #2 Ruckman, Inc In his assessment of Ruckman, Inc, Chris should recommend many of the following conversion implementations take place. We will start with the differences between IFRS and US GAAP in capitalization of development costs. For IFRS, there are six requirements that need to be met in order to capitalize a development cost, and a development cost can only be capitalized if it meets all of these six requirements. First of the criteria is a…

Walter P. Schuetze, the Chief Accountant to SEC and the Chief Accountant of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, published an article entitled “What are assets and liabilities? Where is true north? (Accounting that my sister would understand) in 2001. Mr. Schuetze addresses what are assets and liabilities? He asserts that “the FASB’s definition of an asset is so complex, so abstract, so open-ended, so all-inclusive and so vague that we cannot use it to solve problems” (p. 12). In my opinion, that…

14th, 2014 IFRS Impact on AIS As more companies are going global, the need for an internationally comparable and understandable financial reporting system increased exponentially. IFRS becomes the most acceptable financial reporting standards worldwide. The trend of converging with IFRS has been driven by the demand of global investors, because a single set of financial reporting system will facilitate their decision-making process in the global context. In 2002, all European companies were…

intangible asset method does not recognize third party buyers of emission allowances. The cash flow classifies the inflow and outflow as investment. The Statement of Financial Accounting Standards defines emission allowances as Goodwill and Intangible Assets. This is because they do not meet the definition of financial asset, although, they lack in physical substance. Emission allowances are considered an asset because they are readily converted to cash; an example is the disposal of…

What is Sears’ management trying to achieve through decisions with respect to financial reporting for uncollectible accounts? Management’s objective was to find alternatives to better manage the way credit card charges were collected. The new system that was being used allowed the company to charge off customers’ accounts that neglected to make a payment within eight billing cycles. The intention of the new system was to assist the company in better managing their collection efforts giving them…

These are not tangible and therefore another standard may be applied for these incorporeal assets, IAS 38 Intangible assets (IASB, 2014). The standard’s objective is prescribing an accounting treatment for intangible assets. This entails criteria for recognition as well as how to measure the carrying amount of intangible assets. Lastly this standard requires certain disclosure for any recognised intangible assets (IASB, 2014). IAS 38 defines intangible…

FINANCE 2.7.1 FINANCIAL INCLUSION The definition of Financial inclusion differs from individuals and enterprises according to a dichotomous division as either included or not according to Trike and Faye (2013).In addition Joshi (2008), defines financial inclusion as the process of ensuring access to appropriate financial products and services needed by all groups of people (weaker sections and low income) at an affordable cost in a fair and transparent manner. Table 2. 1. Dimensions of Financial…

and the USA have already been relatively low. However, differences in standard setting and regulation policies weaken imports and exports between the two countries. In Appendix A it can be seen that certain industry sectors face significantly higher restrictions and therefore also higher costs due to non-tariff barriers. Many of these trade barriers should be removed by generating regulatory…

INTRODUCTION Money measurement concept is an important concept of accounting. There are so many advantages and disadvantages are existed in this concept. In the beginning of accounting history there is a problem exist in this accounting field, which is the qualitative aspects and quantifiable units are not recorded in the books of accounting of the firms. On the other hand the adherence to the money measurement concept makes it difficult to compare the monetary values of one period to…