prelim Flashcards
- June 1973 -
OBJECTIVE:- Uniformity of accounting principles all around the world.
“International Accounting Standards (IAS)“
- Uniformity of accounting principles all around the world.
International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC)
New name of IASC and IAS
International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
“International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)”
Sila kung gumagawa or nagha-handle ng board
- Professional Regulation Commission (PRC)
BOA recommended to make FRSC
- BOA or Board of Accountancy
To assist BOA in carrying out its power and functions
MAIN FUNCTION: Establish and improve accounting standards that will be generally accepted in the Philippines
FRSC or Financial Reporting Standard Council
FRSC Promulgates accounting standards aka
Philippine Accounting Standards (PAS)(old) (pagnarinig mo big sabihin Hindi pa nauupdate / applicable pa run ngayon)
Philippines Financial Reporting Standards (PFRS)
- Summary of the terms and concepts that underlie the preparation and presentation of financial statements
- Used as basis for the development and revision of accounting standards
- BASIC PURPOSE:
- To assist IASB to develop IFRS
- To assist the preparers of FS to develop consistent accounting policy when no standard applies to a particular transaction
- To assist preparers of FS to develop accounting policy when a standard allows a choice of an accounting policy
- To assist all parties to understand and interpret IFRS
- CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
- Primary users
* Owner/investors …
- Primary users
* Owner/investors - the one who puts in capital in a business
- Primary users
* Manager …
- Primary users
* Manager - the one who is responsible for running the business
- Primary users
* Lenders and other creditors…
- Primary users
* Lenders and other creditors - Assesses the paying ability of the business(borrower) .
- Primary users
* Supplier …
- Primary users
* Supplier - Offers goods for the sale of the business
- Other users
* Employees …
- Other users
* Employees - Assesses the ability of the company to grant their demands
- Other users
* Customers ….
- Other users
* Customers - Assesses the ability of the company to continuously supply the goods they buy
- Other users
* Government…
- Other users
* Government - Assesses the correct payment of taxes and filing of all required documents
- Why / Purpose / Goal of accounting :
- Provide financial information for decision making
- Financial Statement
- Provide financial information for decision making
- Specific Objectives:
- Provide information useful in making decisions about providing resources to the entity (Statement of Changes in Equity)
- Provide information useful in assessing the cash flow prospects of the entity (Statement of Changes in Cash flow)
- Provide information about entity resources, claims and changes in resources and claims (Statement of Changes in Financial Position Income statement)
LIMITATIONS OF FINANCIAL REPORTING (Hindi lahat ng kailangan ng investors at creditors ay napapakita mo - may monetary value lang or amount. Pinapakita mo lang yung estimate)
- Do not and cannot provide all information that existing and potential investors lenders and other creditors need
- Not designed to show the value of an entity but these reports provide information to help the primary users estimate the value of the entity
- Intended to provide common information to users and cannot accommodate every request for information
- Based on estimate and judgment rather than exact depiction
WHAT IS QUALITATIVE CHARACTERISTICS?
Qualities and attributes that makes financial information useful to the users.
Answers the question, “Paano ba masasabi na yung information ay useful?”
2 classification of Qualitative characteristics:
- di pwede mawala. The content or the substance (pag nawala to ay wala ng sense or usefulness and information)
- Fundamental Qualitative Characteristic -
Intented to increase the usefulness of the information.
regards to presentation / forum (the way mo siya prinesent (was Baganda prinesent was useful)
- Enhancing QC -
eto yang kakayahan or capacity of the information to influence a decision
relevance
helps users correct / forecast outcome of event naimagine yung mangyari sa company?
predictive value
enables users to confirm earlier expectations (Tama ba yung na predict ko?)
Confirmatory value
if commission, misstatement (Mali) and obscuring(tinago) of the information could reasonably affect the decision of users (dapat isama kung makakaapekto, pero kung Hindi wag na isama)
Materiality information / doctrine of Convenience =
kailagan daw yung actual effect of transaction are properly accounted for and represented. (Kung and Malaga yung information or nangayri sa transaction pinapakita mo)
faithful representation
you presented everything to facilitate understanding and avoids erroneous implications (lahat ng kailangan ng users satin pinapakita natin)
completeness
All significant and relevant information shall be reported.
STANDARD OF ADEQUATE DISCLOSSURE -
dapat yung gagawin mong financial statement shall not favor any party (dapat walling bias or fair)
neutrality
no error or omission (kulang)
free from error
present the transaction based on the economic substance rather than the legal form (dapat kung and talaga yung nangyari yun yung ipakita mo, example accrual, kappa nagbenta ka na even though di ka pa binabayaran irecord mo na)
substance over form