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of analyzing the financial crisis, most of the researches had been done based on the traditional critical discourse analysis. Bickes, Otten and Weymann (2014) concentrate on the instances of metaphorical language in the news coverage of three international news magazines to investigate how these three media present the crisis differently. Fonseca and Ferreira (2015) adopted the Critical Discourse Analysis to explore the discursive legitimation strategies adopted by Portuguese government on its…
1. The Role of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman a) Compare and contrast the position of the US and UK rules/codes of Corporate Governance relating to the roles of CEO and Chairman. (10%) In the U.S., corporate governance is determined predominantly by legislation in the form of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ("SOX") and detailed regulations which SOX required the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") and NASDAQ to draw up. In UK there is the…
made reporting difficult and therefore seeing a clear picture of the organizations finances became very challenging (McLaughlin, 2010). On the other hand, according to McLaughlin (2010), the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) created the Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) 117, whose main purpose was to make financial statements from nonprofit organizations readable and usable by stakeholders. Furthermore,…
In the present years, there has been raised the debate on the conversion of GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) to IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards). Companies, especially in the United States of America, are using a system of inconsistent accounting standards for their financial reporting. That is why FASB encourages most organizations moving to a universal system of reporting. However, the transition affects the financial data, financial compliance controls,…
They each have their own little nuances depending on transaction that it taken place, but the standards are mostly straight forwards in what the accountants are required to do. This is why it should come as no surprise that the financial disclosures in Swiss GAAP are just a stringent as they are in the US GAAP framework. The disclosure requirements…
1. What is an operating segment? An operating segment is a management-approach-based segment. According to GAAP, an operating segment is a component of an enterprise that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses, including intersegment revenues and expenses; whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise’s CODM; and for which discrete financial information is available (textbook p. 490). 2. What is a reportable segment according to…
If these standards did not exist, then companies could publish any information they like to entice investors and creditors to contribute to the organization. These standards allow investors and creditors to compare companies within an industry to each other. The standards ensure reports published by competing business contain the same types of information. “Companies are expected to follow…
In order to approach this topic for discussion, we should first clarify the meaning of key terms introduced in the thesis and examples of the levels at which they exist. Financial reporting standards are defined most cleanly as a set of guidelines and rules for conveying formal records of financial activities of an entity, capable of being applied consistently across the level at which they are designed. This can be locally, within a small or independent economy, or globally, as is the case with…
topics. In all of these classes, most especially financial reporting and analysis 1, I was shown how accounting practices under the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) compare and contrast from that of the International Financial…