As an aftereffect of monetary, mechanized, and technological advancements, diverse concentrated fields in accounting has developed, wherein accounting is the preeminent and complex dialect of business. According to the Committee on Terminology of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), “Accounting is the art of recording, classifying and summarizing in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions and events which are in part at least, of a financial character, and interpreting the results thereof”. To make it more simpler, accounting is the act of recording, classifying, summarizing the monetary terms of the business in a substantial manner in order to achieve the output that aids in decisions making process, creation of policies and for the expansion of the entire organization. Currently, the accounting field of study has enhanced its area from number crunching to the other relevant areas that influence the organizations in an exceptionally remarkable manner. It is evident that the organizations are not just concerned in finding the financial position of the business but as well the effect it exercises on the society all in all. This has lead to the emergence of corporate social responsibility (Sustainability accounting) wherein an organization is responsible not only for its financial outcomes but also how it deals with the society, environment and the economy. Numerous studies have been performed keeping in mind to develop certain
Accounting is the study of how businesses track their income and assets over time. Accountants engage in a wide variety of activities besides preparing financial statements and recording business transactions. These activities include computing costs and efficiency gains from new technologies, participating in strategies for mergers and acquisitions, quality management, developing and using information systems to track financial
For as long as businesses have existed, so has accounting. With time, it has become more complicated and detailed, but it is still a process of keeping financial accounts in order. Through accounting, or financial reporting, a system is set up to keep track of, maintain and audit the financial proceedings. Because accounting and financial reporting of a business is so important for its accuracy and in general, a lot of ethical, technological and legal concerns are involved. In this paper, we will look identify and explore the concerns of each of these.
There are three kind of financial statements for companies which the content reflected different information. Among them, the first is the balance sheet, this statement reflects the financial situation of enterprises. For example, some of the listed companies wants to reflect good financial position in the statement, they will want to increase total assets, decrease accrued total liabilities, and then of course increase owners ' equity, making investors mistakenly believe the company has great investment value, thereby misleading public opinion and investors. Beside the balance sheet the other two financial statements are the income statement and cash flow statement. These two statements reflect the business situation of enterprises. The income statement is an important indicator to measure the performance of listed companies, it is closely related to the allotment and the profit. Therefore, in order to increase the profits of listed companies, they will have to Increase revenue, earnings, decrease expenses, costs and losses (Temte, 73). It helped increase tax evasion, embezzlement and other economic criminal activities. A large number of cases being investigated, all related to the accountants making the fake accounting entries. Therefore, the accounting credibility loss has restricted the development of the market economy. In a business, accountant often times handle the tax problem, so if
The field of accounting is constantly evolving. This is true not only for the theory of accounting itself but also the entities that govern its theory and practice. Presently, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) are faced with some of the biggest challenges to date. To understand the significance of these two boards, it is necessary to understand their histories, relations between the boards, and the standards that they set. Also how the knowledge of these boards and the field they lead, gained through the masters of science in accountancy
As the complexity of our financial economy develops it is important that our accounting standards progress in accordance. Accounting is very important to the development of the global and local economies. Accounting is basically the gathering, summarizing and presenting of financial information of an entity to interested internal, external and possible investors. This information should be presented in a non-bias way so that other people are able understand.
To be ethic, to be responsible to the society should be the new role of accounting in society. That’s the reason critical perspective accounting have been put forward. It is a theory that questions prevailing social order and how accounting practices actually contribute to inequities. One breach of it is to provide a sustainability report or tribe bottom line that report the social, environment and economic.
or so many years our society has been thinking of forming new creative and innovative businesses, which would be more environmental and customer friendly. Nowadays a large number of different companies follow the social, ethical, as well as moral consequences when it comes to their decision making. One of the relatively new concepts involving economic and social concerns is Corporate Social Responsibility. Many of us apply this approach not only at work, but also in everyday life without even recognizing.
Accountancy has always been concerned with mainly the accountability of directors to shareholders and companies to creditors. As companies grow larger and become more integrated with the society, this call for a focus towards sustainability and being accountable to a wider range of stakeholders (Perks, 1993). Corporate Social Responsibility is defined as a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations by going beyond
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants defines MA as information that comes from combination of accounting, finance and management that needed to ensure the success of the organization. The changes in management accounting (MA) are a continuous matter that has been discussed by literature over an age. Thus, this paper also aims to discuss about the evolution of management accounting and changing roles of management accountants together with the development of strategic management accounting (SMA). In chapter introduction, this paper will explain the history and development of management accounting from ancient until now and also information about future of management accounting.
What’s the difference – Finance and accounting, accounting and finance? Accounting is a necessary input and subfunction to finance (World Academy, n.d.). The treatment of funds and decision making, relate to the primary distinction between accounting and finance. Finance and accounting are not the same, but accounting is concerned with financial records, while finance relies on accounting reports and data base. The future depends on past events as pointers. The principles of accounting organize and prepare financial statements for an organization (Cleverly, 2011). The success to any business is critical from both accounting and finance. Accounting is knowledge and finance is
This report explains the concept of “social accounting” and analyzes the execution of social accounting in the two companies Corning incorporated and AM-PM Glass Company. The analysis is based on the “good” principles of social accounting and the accordance to the global standards. And the analysis shows that Corning’s sustainability has a better understanding and consideration about the requirement of social accounting and it makes its own evaluation system based on ISO 14001, and build up a series of standards, but the standards of EMS can not match with GRI on the completeness and concreteness. AM-PM begins well in the practicing of social accounting. But it is not that
This article talk about the revolution in accounting. The revolution in accounting through five different stages, there are scientific revaluation, accounting disciplinary matrix, anomalies and professional insecurity, alternative proposals and their evaluation and schools of though. For the first stage, scientific revaluation become the fundamental of the accounting revolution. It provides the technical function to accountants as it promote the academic paper works to a more efficient way. Base on the revaluation of scientific, the information about accounting records become more regular pattern. Therefore, the rule of accounting getting more complete and internationalization. After the disciplinary matrix established up, the anomalies and professional insecurity also changed. Rely on the conventional accounting practices the anomalies and professional insecurity has changed a lot. The accountants’ practices used to be critics. However, it turned to level practices. After the revolution of all above, alternative proposals has changed. For example, the asset values used to be based on the historical cost system, but after the alternative proposals and their evaluation, it could be have another way to
Accounting as a profession or discipline, has always been seen as an information-generating one, which fittingly makes the job of the Accountant to be that of observing economic activities, recording the observations in the prescribed books, analysing the recordings, interpreting his analysis and preparing reports to all users of Accounting Information. The prepared reports are generally referred to as financial statements, which clearly outline or identify the areas of strengths and weaknesses of a business organisation. Various interest groups use the generated Accounting Information in the financial statements as input or guide towards the making of effective decisions
Generally, the accounting professionals calling in the United States as well as in the whole world seemed to be focused on the readiness and examining of money related articulations. Many people consider Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) and different experts of accounting while saying financial accounting. In any case, in different parts of the world, management accounting order is a division of the accounting field (Sahi and Dua 2012). Management accounting and financial accounting are two distinct callings in such locales. Administration accounting, as a sub control, manages money related and non-monetary data to bolster a scope of administrative choices. Then again, money related accounting focuses on monetary information just to bolster both loan bosses' and financial specialists' choices on capital allotment (Kinney and Raiborn 2008). Management accounting fundamentally concentrates on enhancing business execution yet not guaranteeing that the business complies with the set measures. From this perspective, it is evident that monetary accounting dominates management
Accounting is the art of measuring and communicating financial information. To maintain uniformity and consistency in preparing and maintaining books of accounts, certain rules or principles have been evolved. These rules or principles are classified as concepts and conventions. One of the important concept in accounting is “Measurement” (Mattessich, 1977)