The Normative Structure for Reporting emphasise the importance of transactions  that should be reported on the basis of their economic substance and their legal  form. Explain the advantage of “substance over form” and how the financial  statements would indicate that the substance of the underlying transaction varies  from the legal form.

Accounting for Securitization under SFAS No. 140 (2000) is a limited attempt to describe complex transactions that are structured to yield desired economic and accounting outcomes. This accounting raises three issues for users of financial reports. State these three issues.

The objective of general-purpose financial reporting is? to provide users with financial information that implies total freedom from error to provide companies with the option to select information that favors one set of interested parties over another O to provide financial information about the reporting entity that is useful to present and potential equity investors, lender and other creditors in making decisions in their capacity as capital providers to provide a metric for financial information used to determine when the boundary between two or more entities should disregarded and the entities considered to be a licensing arrangement