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Intermediate Accounting Aims
 
Intermediate Accounting Aims

Revision as of 06:17, 18 October 2008

Intermediate Accounting Aims

  • Capital allocation and investment decisions
  • Help investors assess amounts, timing, and uncertainty of prospective cash receipts
  • Clearly portray economic resources of an enterprise and claims on them

Intermediate Accounting Qualitative Concepts (Concepts No. 2)

  • Understandablity
  • Relevance (Predictive value, feedback value, timeliness)
  • Reliability (Verifiability, representational faithfulness, neutrality)
  • Comparability
  • Consistency

Intermediate Accounting Basic Elements

  • Assets
  • Liabilities
  • Equity
  • Investments by Owners
  • Distributions to Owners
  • Comprehensive Income
  • Revenues
  • Expenses
  • Gains
  • Losses

Intermediate Accounting Recognition Assumptions Etc.

  • Economic Entity
  • Going Concern Assumptions
  • Monetary Unit Assumption
  • Periodicity Assumption
  • Historical Cost Principle
  • Revenue Recognition (realized, earned, recognition)
  • Matching Principle
  • Full disclosure

Intermediate Accounting Constraints

  • Cost-benefit of producing information
  • Materiality
  • Industry practices
  • Conservatism – choose least likely to overstate assets and income