This article describes the procedures by which accounting standards are established in the United States. It illustrates the application of those procedures in practice, by describing how they are being applied to develop standards for accounting for inflation. The United States has a unique institutional structure for the promulgation of accounting standards a private sector Financial Accounti...

Inflation is the level of prices increasing at a substantial rate over some time, thus requiring more money each year to buy given amount goods and services. Financial statements are instruments an enterprise that show financial situation outcomes functions. In high inflationary periods, if they reported in monetary unit identicalhyperinflationary economy do not reflect real activity entity. Ma...

This paper focuses on the accounting concept of impairment of long lived assets and goodwill. The objective is to identify the differences between the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) standards on impairment and to recommend a converged standard that will be acceptable to both bodies. Information for the research was obtaine...

SYNOPSIS: This essay analyzes some problems that accounting standard setters confront in erecting barriers to managers bent on boosting their firms’ financial reports through financial engineering (FE) activities. It also poses some unsolved research questions regarding interactions between preparers and standard setters. It starts by discussing the history of lease accounting to illustrate the...

Commercialisation of public sector accounting in Australia has essentially been achieved through extension of private sector accounting standards to the public sector, with the exception of two standards. The first standard relates to financial reporting by segments and the second to related party disclosures. This paper briefly outlines the commercialisation process of public sector accounting...