scholarly journals FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING METHODOLOGY AND DEFINITION OF ASSET: AUSTRALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-91
Author(s):  
Mark BALTABEKOV ◽  

This article analyses the role of the asset in economic performance of a business and why it is important to work out a precise definition of the asset for managerial and financial analysis purposes. A short overview of Australian accounting system including both institutional and regulatory aspects has been made by the author as well as the normative nature of related regulations is examined. The research provides insights what conditions required for the asset to be in existence and analyses these insights in the light of both scholars’ opinions and accounting regulations as well. Furthermore, the research looks at the conceptual framework drafts to see how the conditions mentioned above are developed in related papers and shows the process of evolution of definition of the asset under the standard-setting activity of Australian Accounting Standards Board and International Accounting Standards Board and how this activity makes effect on contemporary views in regard to definition of the asset. This article also involves discovering what problems in theory of accounting and practice can arise if existing definition will not be corrected and strongly criticizes the concept of identity between asset and economic benefits which is promoted by some accounting researches in their works. The author suggests in his article that asset and economic benefits are totally different economic phenomena and provides a clear idea what conceptual economic views are taken into consideration by Australian and international experts to elaborate a precise definition of the asset. This research also examines the main characteristics of the proposed definition promoted by international accounting experts and some possible impacts of implementation of this definition on accounting practice are considered. The role of International Accounting Standards Board and its influence on Australian standard-setting bodies’ activity are also researched in the article.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Mark BALTABEKOV ◽  

The author establishes a goal to analyze evolution of asset’s definition in professional activity of International Accounting Standards Board and to demonstrate the processes underlying the decision-making activities have been done by its experts. The article describes in chronological order how financial accounting experts introduced improvements on asset’s definition from one meeting to another and what kind of ideas of economic and semantic nature were used to back up those improvements. The author also sheds light on and scrutinizes a few papers adopted by International Accounting Standards Board and some other accounting bodies that provided the process of evolution of an asset’s definition with relevant concepts and ideas. The article discusses fundamental principles of financial accounting in regards of interrelations between economic benefits and an asset followed by analyzing of related doctrinal teachings of western theoreticians thereto. It was stated that most of theoreticians support the idea that asset and economic benefits are totally different phenomena and article promotes some arguments why this position is true. The author also draws a theoretical conclusion that economic benefits always flow to the entity in case of usage or selling of an asset, but these benefits are generated either in a form of economic benefits as itself or in a form of asset. The article provides a brief analysis of characteristics of a right having a potential to produce economic benefits and what consequences a new definition of an asset can have on accounting treatment in case of shifting away from accounting for physical objects and toward accounting for a right or a set of rights.


Author(s):  
‏​‏​‏​​‏​‏​​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏ Ali Murtadha Shaheen

The objective of the research is to demonstrate the role of International Accounting Standards Board in the development of International Financial Reporting Standards to support the efficiency of international capital markets from 1973 to 2011, and then to measure the impact of the application of IFRS in accordance with the role of the International Accounting Standards Board. There have been differences in the market, volumes of the first and second markets and in the share price index, refer to market value, trading volumes yet trading volumes appropriate according to the software over International Financial Reporting Standards between the training on monetary statements of agreement stock companies.  


2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devrimi Kaya ◽  
Robert J. Kirsch ◽  
Klaus Henselmann

This paper analyzes the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as intermediaries in encouraging the European Union (EU) to adopt International Accounting Standards (IAS). Our analysis begins with the 1973 founding of the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC), and ends with 2002 when the binding EU regulation was approved. We document the many pathways of interaction between European supranational, governmental bodies and the IASC/IASB, as well as important regional NGOs, such as the Union Européenne des Experts Comptables, Économiques et Financiers (UEC), the Groupe d'Etudes des Experts Comptables de la Communauté Économique Européenne (Groupe d'Etudes), and their successor, the Fédération des Experts Comptables Européens (FEE). This study investigates, through personal interviews of key individuals involved in making the history of the organizations studied, and an extensive set of primary sources, how NGOs filled key roles in the process of harmonization of international accounting standards.


2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (65) ◽  
pp. 124-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odilanei Morais dos Santos ◽  
Ariovaldo dos Santos

Este trabalho tem como objetivo identificar os fatores determinantes à submissão de cartas comentários, como estratégia de lobbying no contexto da regulação contábil, à audiência pública do Discussion Paper Extractive Activities do International Accounting Standards Board IASB).Os resultados mostram o tamanho como fator determinante, em todas as modelagens utilizadas, indicando que grandes empresas petrolíferas possuem maior probabilidade para realizar lobbying. Essa propensão é verificada para posicionamentos essencialmente desfavoráveis às propostas apresentadas pelo IASB, o que implica em considerar que a revisão/substituição do International Financial Reporting Standard -IFRS6 será um processo complexo e sujeito a pressões por parte das empresas petrolíferas para manter o status quo.


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