Common U S Gaap Issues Facing Accountants

Featuring the latest ASUs through the date of publication, this broad-ranging book covers FASB accounting and reporting developments that apply to all companies. Emphasizing financial statement disclosures in addition to accounting methods, the author presents implementation guidelines and disclosure illustrations from actual financial statements. Key topics include: The financial reporting environment Summary of recent FASB releases Accounting and reporting topics common to most entities, including the following: Recognizing revenue under the new standard The new leasing model Fair value accounting Inventory Property, plant, and equipment – including capitalized interest and nonmonetary transactions Accounting for debt Accounting for income taxes Financial statement presentation and notes disclosures The financial statements

Are you looking for a review and update of common GAAP issues important to all CPAs? This broad-ranging book covers FASB accounting and reporting developments that apply to all companies. Emphasizing financial statement disclosures in addition to accounting methods, it presents implementation guidelines and disclosure illustrations from actual financial statements. This book will prepare you to: Identify and apply select FASB accounting and reporting guidance. Recall concepts related to FASB projects. Recall key points related to disclosures.

Featuring the latest ASUs through the date of publication, this broad-ranging book covers FASB accounting and reporting developments that apply to all companies. Emphasizing financial statement disclosures in addition to accounting methods, the author presents implementation guidelines and disclosure illustrations from actual financial statements. Key topics include: The financial reporting environment Summary of recent FASB releases Accounting and reporting topics common to most entities, including the following: Recognizing revenue under the new standard The new leasing model Fair value accounting Inventory Property, plant, and equipment – including capitalized interest and nonmonetary transactions Accounting for debt Accounting for income taxes Financial statement presentation and notes disclosures The financial statements

Are you looking for a review and update of common GAAP issues important to all CPAs? This broad-ranging book covers FASB accounting and reporting developments that apply to all companies. Emphasizing financial statement disclosures in addition to accounting methods, it presents implementation guidelines and disclosure illustrations from actual financial statements. This book will prepare you to: Identify and apply select FASB accounting and reporting guidance. Recall concepts related to FASB projects. Recall key points related to disclosures.

The most comprehensive guide to US GAAP—thoroughly updated to reflect the latest pronouncements US GAAP is constantly being updated, requiring its users to be armed with expert interpretation and explanation of the relevant principles. Wiley GAAP 2021 provides the most complete coverage of all Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Topics – including the latest updates. Each chapter includes discussion of perspectives and issues, sources of GAAP, practice-oriented examples, and accurate definitions of terms, concepts, and rules. Every FASB Topic is fully explained in a clear, reader-friendly way with dynamic graphics to aid in understanding complex topics. Extensively updated to reflect all current US GAAP changes, this indispensable book: Reviews the latest changes to accounting principles, including credit losses, inventory, financial instruments, leases, and revenue Offers expert guidance on issues surrounding specific pronouncements Includes comprehensive cross-references and topic-specific appendices Explains how the standards apply to common real-world scenarios Clarifies implementation through numerous illustrations and practical examples Accurate and up-to-date GAAP implementation is crucial for eliminating the risk of noncompliance. Wiley GAAP 2021 is your one-stop resource for staying up-to-date with constantly-changing guidelines—providing the insight and guidance accounting professionals need.

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Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: B, University of Frankfurt (Main), course: MSc Accounting & Control – Thesis, language: English, abstract: Since the Enron scandal in 2001 there has been more and more media coverage on the topic of accountancy. The focus shifted from the financial statements and the companies themselves to the audit firms. The big five, and later, after the ending of Arthur Andersen, the big four, are working under significantly more pressure today. But the audit firms are not the only scapegoats in this matter. People also started to look more and more critically to the accounting standards. Questions have risen on the relevance of the Financial Standards. Also the fact that there are more than one set of Financial Standards is remarkable. Some things that are illegal in the United States of America can be legal in the European Union and the other way around. Therefore the IASB and the FASB are trying to come together in a process which is called convergence. In their Norwalk Agreement of September 2002, and later on renewed by the FASB-IASB Memorandum of Understanding in February 2006, it is acknowledged that both sides will need to move some way towards each other to come to a unified set of worldwide applicable financial accounting regulations. This resulted in the FASB adopting some IASB regulations, and the IASB adopting some FASB regulations, and in some cases a joint project to issue new and identical regulations on specific matters (Veron, 2007). This process of convergence has raised criticism and questions. As put in The Global Accounting Experiment by Nicholas Veron (2007): “The forces driving the Global Accounting Experiment are insufficient to guarantee its continued success. It is bound to face major challenges in the next few years. Two main factors are behind this: the deficit of legitimacy and accountability of the IASB, and the difficulty of ensuring consistent implementation of IFRS across sectors and countries.” The questions raised in the convergence process, for example, are: which type of regulations on a specific subject is “better”, or more relevant? Are the adopted standards by the FASB of equal importance compared to the adopted standards by the IASB? To put this differently, is there one-way convergence from one side to another? This is namely being criticized in Europe, where critics say that this convergence process is a process of one-way convergence from IFRS towards US GAAP (Camfferman, 2010). These three questions mentioned above bring me to the main question which I am going to answer with this research: Are the worldwide applicable

This book will explain the complex inter-relationships between the International Accounting Standards Board (the creator of IFRS), the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the Canadian Accounting Standards Board (AcSB), their work programme and their plans for the future.