Advantages Of Rule Based Accounting

It define the scope of judgment in planning financial statements by formulate the characteristic, activity and restrict of financial accounting and reporting. It also increases different of financial statements by reduce the number of other accounting methods. If standards were come from a reasonable style of concepts. Likewise, reporting requirement will be more constant and fair because they will record accounting base on former set of concepts. Moreover, the setting requirement will be more economical because problem should not be discuss from different position. In additional, it help to reduce accounting common error and political

In the course of history and as per the needs and complexity of financial system, almost each and every country in the world developed their own accounting principles and financial reporting system in accordance to their rule, law, culture and social order. However, as the world moves more toward globalization, world market economy get close to each other, International investments spread out throughout the globe especially among countries with open economy. Thus, the diversity in accounting practices is not conducive for boosting international investments, and businesses in today’s market. For example, guess you invest in the international market and you are required to prepare a financial report in compliance with rule of that country and then you need to convert the report to where your company is originally resident. First of all, it is a hassle for the investing companies to report based on the host country rule and regulation. Second, it creates a lot extra costs which fall on investors to compare the result of the report with different countries and may not be able to make a good comparison anyway. Thus, it limited the effectiveness of the international capital markets as well as cross border investment. (International Accounting Pg, 65)

We now want to look into the International Accounting Standards Board and framework for the preparation and presentation of financial statements. The conceptual frameworks are split into five categories and are in the following order: the objective of financial statements; underlying assumptions; the qualitative characteristics that determine the usefulness of information in financial statements; the definition, recognition, and measurement of the elements from which financial statements are constructed; and the concepts of capital and capital maintenance (Ankarath 11). The standards under IFRS are beginning to become much more popular across the world for several different reasons. The International Financial Reporting Standards are currently being used by at the very least 100 countries and “[was] expected that by 2011, more than 150 countries [would] have adopted them” (Ankarath 1). We happen to find this important because it seems that a lot of countries are starting to adopt IFRS to report their financial statements. One of the reasons why many countries made the switch over to IFRS is because “the decision of the U.S. SEC to allow foreign private issuers to list their securities on U.S.

The field of accounting is constantly evolving. This is true not only for the theory of accounting itself but also the entities that govern its theory and practice. Presently, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) are faced with some of the biggest challenges to date. To understand the significance of these two boards, it is necessary to understand their histories, relations between the boards, and the standards that they set. Also how the knowledge of these boards and the field they lead, gained through the masters of science in accountancy

For as long as businesses have existed, so has accounting. With time, it has become more complicated and detailed, but it is still a process of keeping financial accounts in order. Through accounting, or financial reporting, a system is set up to keep track of, maintain and audit the financial proceedings. Because accounting and financial reporting of a business is so important for its accuracy and in general, a lot of ethical, technological and legal concerns are involved. In this paper, we will look identify and explore the concerns of each of these.

As the complexity of our financial economy develops it is important that our accounting standards progress in accordance. Accounting is very important to the development of the global and local economies. Accounting is basically the gathering, summarizing and presenting of financial information of an entity to interested internal, external and possible investors. This information should be presented in a non-bias way so that other people are able understand.

Why do we study comparative accounting? Countries around the world have different aspects such as taxation, legal systems, culture and colonial influence that differ the way accounting is reported. Ultimately the need for fair presentation is the final objective to comparative accounting. Thousands of years ago when accounting was first practiced, each country practiced financial reporting according to the power and strengths in their country, regardless of how accounting was reported in neighboring countries. Nowadays, because the world is becoming more globalized and harmonized, standard-setters feel the need to report their accounting in a uniform way. The International Accounting Standards Board [IASB] was formed as a non-for-profit

In 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a road map for the United States (US) to implement International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) that would eventually lead to the dissolution of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) (Cox 2008). US GAAP is rules based system of accounting that contains over 25,000 detailed pages of guidance, whereas IFRS is a principles based system of accounting that contains 2,500 pages of guidance. IFRS allows accountants to exercise professional judgment when making many decisions. This paper will compare and contrast US GAAP with IFRS on Intermediate Accounting Topics.

Due to the controversy economies have had towards which method to use for accounting, there has been a compromise to converge the two most commonly used methods – GAAP and IFRS. However, these two methods are still very different. The convergence project has yet to be completed; in the meantime, more and more countries are running towards the IFRS since it is more reliable and relevant. The main difference between these two methods is the US GAAP is rule-based while the IFRS is principle-based; this means that the US GAAP makes its decisions based on research and literature, while the IFRS bases its decisions on patterns that result in facts. A deeper look into the differences between these two methodologies shows

Regulation is defined as a set of rules that is designed to control and govern conduct by authority (Deegan 2009, p.59). On the basis of this definition, Deegan (2009, p.59) has defined regulations relating to financial accounting as rules that are developed by independent authoritative body to govern the preparation of financial statements which are accounting standards. Since decades ago, there have been arguments for and against the existence of accounting regulations. With a stance of pro-regulation, this essay is going to examine the reasons that financial accounting and reporting should be regulated and the merits of accounting regulations.

Under the economic globalization and the rapid development of Islamic finance in recent years, the business activities with Islamic countries became a worldwide focus. However, it is notable that the conventional accounting system would face a challenge with the compliance of Shariah. Therefore, the Islamic accounting standards AAOIFI were developed due to of the existing problem with the adoption of the convention accounting standards (IFRS). In this chapter, to illustrate the difference among IFRS and AAOIFI, the general description of these two accounting standards will be presented, followed by the distinguishing between the adoption as well as the comparison of some specific accounting treatments. At the

International accounting, a term given birth by modern society, is a concept which encompasses all function areas of various accounting principles and practices followed by every nation in the world. The international accounting consists of three different levels. First level is the supranational level which signifies principles, standards and guidelines of accounting, auditing and taxation issued by supranational organizations such as UN, OECD and IFA (International accounting, Timothy and Hector, 2011, P1). The second level is the company level which denotes the principles and techniques that people follow to report transactions and evaluate foreign companies’ performance. The third level, the broadest one, can be viewed as the

Under the economic globalization and the rapid development of Islamic finance in recent years, the business activities with Islamic countries became a worldwide focus. However, it is notable that the conventional accounting system would face a challenge with the compliance of Shariah. Therefore, the Islamic accounting standards AAOIFI were developed due to of the existing problem with the adoption of the convention accounting standards (IFRS). In this chapter, to illustrate the difference among IFRS and AAOIFI, the general description of these two accounting standards will be presented, followed by the distinguishing between the adoption as well as the comparison of some specific accounting treatments. At the

The principles are the result from the accounting practice that has been used and improved over the time. The deeper explanation about the statement is that, accounting standard such as IFRS is created based on the previous accounting practice itself rather the theories. The theories are useful in guiding the other field like finance and economics. There is also evidence that the accounting theory exists after standard has been practiced (Cluskey, Ehlen and Rivers 2007). The father of accounting, Luca Pacioli explained about double-entry booking in one of his studies. The study described the practice and explained to the readers the logic behind it. The research had given birth to dozens of studies made by theorist to further discuss about the accounting practice. By this evidence, the readers can also conclude that not only the standard that exist from accounting practice but in fact, accounting theory also exist to explain the nature of the practice. Back to the purpose of this paper, accounting theory plays no role in the setting of accounting standard is approved by two points: the process of setting accounting standard itself is a political activity and the development of accounting standard is influence by the existing accounting practice not accounting

The process of globalization in the financial markets has led to a growing emphasis on the standards that are to be maintained in the global market in accounting terms and has made increased efforts to acquiring the best standards which go along with all the internationally approved standards. The statements that are made in each country differ from each other according to certain laws, rules, standards, etc because the analysis and assessments about each transactions differ. Hence, this sometimes becomes very difficult to interpret because the methods of analysis are different which makes comparison, analysis and assessment quite difficult among different countries (Baker, 2008).