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Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government

Author : United States Government Accountability Office

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 88 pages

File Size : 18,59 MB

Release : 2019-03-24

Category : Reference

ISBN : 0359541828

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Book Description

Policymakers and program managers are continually seeking ways to improve accountability in achieving an entity's mission. A key factor in improving accountability in achieving an entity's mission is to implement an effective internal control system. An effective internal control system helps an entity adapt to shifting environments, evolving demands, changing risks, and new priorities. As programs change and entities strive to improve operational processes and implement new technology, management continually evaluates its internal control system so that it is effective and updated when necessary. Section 3512 (c) and (d) of Title 31 of the United States Code (commonly known as the Federal Managers? Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA)) requires the Comptroller General to issue standards for internal control in the federal government.



Financial Accounting with International Financial Reporting Standards

Author : Jerry J. Weygandt

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 871 pages

File Size : 41,24 MB

Release : 2018-07-18

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1119504309

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Book Description

While there is growing interest in IFRS within the US, interest outside the US has exploded. Weygandt's fourth edition of Financial Accounting: IFRS highlights the integration of more US GAAP rules, a desired feature as more foreign companies find the United States to be their largest market. The highly anticipated new edition retains each of the key features (e.g. TOC, writing style, pedagogy, robust EOC) on which users of Weygandt Financial have come to rely, while putting the focus on international companies/examples, discussing financial accounting principles and procedures within the context of IFRS, and providing EOC exercises and problems that present students with foreign currency examples instead of solely U.S. dollars.



Accounting Standards: True or False?

Author : R.A. Rayman

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 26,35 MB

Release : 2013-09-13

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1134183577

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Book Description

Following a spate of high-profile financial scandals (including Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat), the quality of financial information has come under increasing scrutiny. Many of the accounting standards being imposed on the profession by regulators and standard-setting bodies are now attracting criticism from the business community and the accountancy profession itself. In this book, Anthony Rayman traces a fundamental flaw in the conventional academic wisdom back to the nineteenth century, and proposes an alternative conceptual framework. He argues that effective corporate governance can be achieved, not by expensive and counterproductive regulations (like the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act and some International Accounting Standards), but by an enhanced accounting information system that exposes corporate management to the full rigour of market forces.



Government Auditing Standards - 2018 Revision

Author : United States Government Accountability Office

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 45,98 MB

Release : 2019-03-24

Category : Reference

ISBN : 0359536395

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Audits provide essential accountability and transparency over government programs. Given the current challenges facing governments and their programs, the oversight provided through auditing is more critical than ever. Government auditing provides the objective analysis and information needed to make the decisions necessary to help create a better future. The professional standards presented in this 2018 revision of Government Auditing Standards (known as the Yellow Book) provide a framework for performing high-quality audit work with competence, integrity, objectivity, and independence to provide accountability and to help improve government operations and services. These standards, commonly referred to as generally accepted government auditing standards (GAGAS), provide the foundation for government auditors to lead by example in the areas of independence, transparency, accountability, and quality through the audit process. This revision contains major changes from, and supersedes, the 2011 revision.



Accounting and Auditing Standards for Islamic Financial Institutions

Author : Mohd Ma'Sum Billah

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 305 pages

File Size : 11,65 MB

Release : 2021-11-29

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1000508994

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Book Description

While accounting and audit functions are significantly regulated and standardized in conventional financial industries and activities, through the implementation of International Accounting Standards, and International Financial Reporting Standards, as well as other international, regional, and local regulations, this is not the case for Islamic financial organizations. Rather than having their own set of comprehensive accounting or auditing standards or policies, these are based, in some cases, on the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAIOFI), the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB)’s standards and Shari’ah based local policies. This book is a timely and comprehensive overview of accounting and auditing standards within the doctrine of Shari’ah. It offers a significant contribution to the field and a wealth of technical know-how. It analyzes Islamic accounting and auditing both in theory and practice and from a distinctly international perspective. The chapters are arranged in a systematic and logical way making it easily accessible and engaging. The book evaluates the existing standards and widens the scope of the discourse to include Maqasid al-Shari’ah, Islamic accounting and audit models and standards, as well as, offering practical policy recommendations. The author presents a Shari’ah justified solution to Islamic Accounting and Audit and offers guidance on overcoming the challenges to implementing Islamic Accounting and Auditing Standards. The book is a unique and exhaustive guide and, as such, will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, students, policymakers, as well as, practitioners in accounting and auditing firms and financial institutions.



Political Standards

Author : Karthik Ramanna

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 300 pages

File Size : 48,29 MB

Release : 2015-11-09

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 022621074X

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Assembling compelling and unprecedented evidence, "Political Standards: Accounting for Legitimacy" documents how in subtle ways the rules of corporate accounting a critical institution in modern market capitalism have been captured to benefit industrial corporations, financial firms, and audit firms. In what is perhaps the only independent overview of the accounting industry, Karthik Ramanna begins with a history of corporate accounting and an accessible explanation of how it works today, including the essential roles it plays in defining the fundamental notion of profitability, facilitating asset allocation, and ensuring the accountability of corporations and their managers. From the evidence, Ramanna shows how accounting rule-makers selectively co-opt conceptual arguments from academia and elsewhere to advance the views of the special-interest groups. From this, Ramanna moves on to develop more broadly a new type of regulatory challenge that of producing public policy in a thin political market. His argument is that accounting rules cannot be determined without the substantial expertise and experience of groups that by definition also have strong commercial interests in the outcome." Political Standards" concludes with an exploration of possible solutions to the problem in accounting and that of thin political markets in general, charting avenues for scholarship and practice. Certain to be an eye-opening account of a massive industry central to the modern business world, "Political Standards "will be an essential resource in understanding how the rules of the game business are set, whom they inevitably favor, and how they can be changed for the better of society."



2005 Original Pronouncements

Author : Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)

Publisher : Wiley

Page : 1818 pages

File Size : 45,26 MB

Release : 2005-08-29

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780471737919

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The 2005 FASB Accounting Standards publications give accounting professionals and financial executives a complete source of the current authoritative accounting pronouncements issued by the FASB and its predecessors. ORIGINAL PRONOUNCEMNTS The 2005 Original Pronouncements contains the FASB and AICPA pronouncements in three volumes: * Original Pronouncements: Volume I-FASB Statements 1-120 (0-471-73791-7) * Original Pronouncements: Volume II- FASB Statements 121-154 (0-471-73791-7) * Original Pronouncements: Volume III-AICPA Pronouncements and FASB Interpretations, Technical Bulletins, FASB Staff Positions, and Concepts Statements (0-471-73791-7) Features * All Pronouncements amended by subsequent pronouncements reflect those amendments. * New in 2005-includes all current FASB Staff Positions. * Status pages before each pronouncement identify sources of changes and other pronouncements affected by that pronouncement Completely superseded Pronouncements that may no longer be applied are omitted, and status pages are retained for these omitted pronouncements. * EITF Issues and AICPA Accounting Standards Executive committee (AcSEC) Statements of Position and Practice Bulletins are cross-referenced on applicable status pages. * Separate appendixes identify amended paragraphs, effective dates for all pronouncements, and topics discussed by the FASB Emerging Issues Takes Force (EITF). * Volume III contains the appendixes and a topical index to material in the Original Pronouncements and Current Text volumes. EITF Issues, and the FASB's question-and-answer Special Reports and FASB Staff Positions. CURRENT TEXT The 2005 Current Text is an integration of financial accounting and reporting standards arranged by topic for General and Industry Standards and includes all currently effective (as of June 1, 2005) FASB Statements, Interpretations, and Technical Bulletins and AICPA APB Opinions, Interpretations, and Accounting Research Bulletins in two volumes: * Current Text Volume I- General Standards-Sections A06 to N35 (0-471-73789-5) * Current Text: Volume II: General Standards-Sections P16 to V18 and Industry Standards (0-471-73789-5 Features * Arranged alphabetically by topics for easy reference. * EITF Issues are listed by topic and where applicable linked to specific paragraphs. * AICPA AcSEC Statements of Position and Practice Bulletins are listed by topic where applicable. * FASB's questions-and-answer Special Reports and FASB Staff Positions are included by topic. * Links current Text paragraphs to the Original Pronouncements in a Volume II appendix. * Contains the appendixes and topical index as described above for Volume III of Original Pronouncements.





Accounting Standards

Author : R. A. Rayman

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 248 pages

File Size : 27,63 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780415377805

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Book Description

Anthony Rayman explains the failure of the conventional system of accounting and proposes an alternative system to promote the improvement of corporate governance in the market economy.



International Accounting Standards

Author : Hennie van Greuning

Publisher : World Bank Publications

Page : 188 pages

File Size : 30,35 MB

Release : 2001-01-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780821349991

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Now in its second edition, this publication gives readers a broad and basic understanding of the key issues for each International Accounting Standard. It summarizes each standard, providing a quick reference for managers and executives in the private and public sectors who may not have a strong background in accounting. Each chapter also contains a case study that illustrates the practical application of key concepts in a particular standard. This gives the non-technical reader the tools to participate in discussions on the appropriateness or application of a standard in a given situation. The reader can also evaluate the effect that applying a given standard will have on the financial results and position of a division or an entire enterprise.