International accounting standards 1 Flashcards
Transactions (znaczenie)
operacja gospodarcza
Accounting activities and users:
Identification
Recording
Communication
What does ,,identification” mean?
Transaction must be identified
What does ,,recording” mean?
Transactions must be recorded, calssified, and summarized
What does ,,communication” mean?
Accounting reports must be prepared and presented so that the users can analyze and interpret them
Internal users (znaczenie)
Użytkownicy wewnętrzni
External users (znaczenie)
Użytkownicy zewnętrzni
Examples of external users:
Investors
Creditors
They are primary users of financial statements
Examples of internal users:
Taxing authorities
Regulatory agencias (agencje regulacyjne)
Labor unions (związki zawodowe)
True or false: The three steps in the accounting process are identification, recording, and communication
True
True or false: Bookkeeping is a synonym of accounting
False
Tre or false: Accountants in an organization prepare and tell the users how to interpret financial reports of the business they work for.
True
True or false: Two most common types of internal users are investors and creditors
False
True or false: Managerial accounting activities focus on reports for internal users.
True
Financial accounting is regulated by …
standards
Primary accounting standard-setting bodies:
International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
- Determines International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
- Used in 130 countries
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
- Determines generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
- Used by most companies in the U.S.
Local parliaments/country standard setters
- Majority of countries have their own financial accounting regulations
- These are used mostly by businesses operating locally and/or not publicly traded
IFRS generally uses one of two measurement principles:
the historical cost principle or the fair value principle.
What is historical cost?
How much we paid.
Historical cost principle (or cost principle):
dictates that companies record assets at their cost. This is true not only at the time the asset is purchased, but also over the time the asset is held.
expanses (znaczenie)
koszt uzyskania przychodu
Fair value principle:
states that assets and liabilities should be reported at fair value (the price received to sell an asset or settle a liability).
Fair value (znaczenie):
wartość godziwa
Main principles:
- relevance
- faithful representation
faithful representation (znaczenie):
zasada wiernego obrazu
relevance (znaczenie):
istotność
relevance means:
that financial information is capable of making a difference in a decision.
Faithful representation means:
that the numbers and descriptions match what really existed or happened— they are factual.
Two main assumptions are:
the monetary unit assumption and the economic entity assumption.
Monetary unit assumption means:
requires that companies include in the accounting records only transaction data that can be expressed in money terms.