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    Accrual Accounting

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    regards to revenue recognition for your business as well as my recommendation for the accounting method to be used by your new company. Differentiate between accrual accounting and cash basis. Based on the type of business and the client’s accounting system, what is the impact when revenue is recognized? The difference between the accrual and cash basis accounting is when expenses and revenue are recognized. According to the IRS Publication 538 “You must use the same accounting method from year

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    Literature Review of Discretionary Accrual Models Chenxi Lin 01/03/2015   Literature Review of Discretionary Accruals Models Audit quality is crucial for financial statements users and efficient capital markets. However, how to measure audit quality properly has been a controversial issue, because quality is not observable. With no uniform definition of audit quality, prior researchers developed various audit quality proxies. Earning quality is one of the most commonly used measure for audit

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    Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Small business will sometimes use this method. While accrual basis accounting is the opposite, it requires income to be recognized in a company's books at the time the revenue is earned (but not necessarily received) and records expenses when liabilities are incurred (but not necessarily paid for).Most businesses use accrual basis accounting . So, I would use the accrual basis accounting as it is more accurate. It provides a better picture of business’s revenues

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    Airlines is operating under the matching concept of accounting. This concept requires all revenues and their related expenses to be recorded during the same accounting period. The matching concept is used while working under the accrual basis of accounting. When using accrual accounting one must record all revenue as it is earned and expenses when

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    Cash and Accrual Accounting Organizations have two types of accounting that is processed: cash and accrual. Accountant’s use both of these to track the income and expenses within the organization. The main difference between these two is the timing in how payments are received. Cash accounting is not documented until payment has officially been received. For example, cash in hand for a service or when a check has cleared can this be accounted as cash accrual. On the contrary, accrual accounting

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    Cash Vs Accrual-Basis

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    prepare its financial position. One is accrual basis of accounting where revenue and expenses are recognized when they are received and incurred and other is cash basis where all the revenue and expenses are recognized when cash is received or paid (Cleverley, Cleverley, & Song, 2012). Generally, small businesses, not-for-profit organizations, some Government agencies and community associations use the cash-basis while larger for-profit businesses use the accrual-basis (Baskerville, 2014). This is because

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    a. Accrual accounting is an accounting method that is utilized to size the performance and of a company by recognizing circumstances regardless of when cash transactions occur. They are documented by matching revenues to expenses at the time in which the transaction occurs rather than when a payment is processed. This method allows the current cash credits and debits to be combined with future expected cash flows to give a more accurate picture of a company 's current financial state. It is ideal

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    Government, the government does not fully adopt accrual accounting. Government will follow and under full accrual accounting through providing a more comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the Government’s financial situation. Full accrual accounting strongly supported by National and international accounting Standards bodies and Audit General. To fully adopt the full accrual accounting, senior levels of government urges governments to adopt full accrual accounting under recommendation The Public Sector

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    statements, accrual accounting should be used. Accrual accounting is an “accounting method that records revenues when earned and expenses when incurred without regard to when cash is exchanged” (Kemp & Waybright, 2013, p. 126). In order to master the eight step process of the accounting cycle, an accountant should use accrual accounting, understand the adjusting and closing process, and be able to

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    Period-End Accruals Case

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    certain period-end accruals. This resulted in an audit adjustment of $3,578,000. The benchmark for overall materiality is $3,508,000, I would consider the audit adjustment of $3,578,000 a material misstatement. Control environment, principle 2 the board of directors and management exercise oversight of development and performance of internal controls. Due to the severity and material weakness of lack of adequate cutoff procedures to ensure timely recording of period end accruals. Management and the

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