Category: Accounting Rules

GAAP

10 November, 2010 (18:10) | Accounting Rules | By: Sherill

www.nysscpa.org There is an accounting code established by FASB called the GAAP or “Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.” The assumption is this: if your financial business statement is prepared according to these principles, then you can be rest assured that you can trust or rely on the information of the said financial statement. There are businesses [...]

FASB

10 October, 2010 (18:01) | Accounting Rules | By: Sherill

www.accountingmasters.co.uk There has to be a body that will set all accounting rules. If there’s none, it would be chaos, just like if there were no road driving rules. The members of FASB have to go through a very lengthy process of reviewing and analyzing problems that the accounting field has brought them. Then after [...]