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Comprehensive Income Reporting: Fasb Decides Location Matters, Dennis Chambers
Comprehensive Income Reporting: Fasb Decides Location Matters, Dennis Chambers
Faculty Articles
The article reports on Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2011-05 issued by the Financial Accounting Services Board (FASB) in June 2011. It states that the standard requires all companies to report comprehensive income and components either in one continuous statement or in two separate, but consecutive, net income and other comprehensive income statements.In both cases, companies must reportedly now report in an income statement-type location for total comprehensive income.
Goodwill Non-Impairments, Dennis Chambers, Catherine Finger
Goodwill Non-Impairments, Dennis Chambers, Catherine Finger
Faculty Articles
The article discusses the use of goodwill non-impairment by companies to manage their earnings. The effect of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) 142 on goodwill-related earnings management is described. A table shows the results of related the working papers "Earnings Management By Avoiding or Reducing Goodwill Impairments," by Dennis Chambers, "Evidence on the Use of Unverifiable Estimates in Required Goodwill Impairment," by Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watts, and "Has Goodwill Accounting Gone Bad?," by Kevin K. Li and Richard G. Sloan.
How Lehman Brothers Used Repo 105 To Manipulate Their Financial Statements, Agatha Jeffers
How Lehman Brothers Used Repo 105 To Manipulate Their Financial Statements, Agatha Jeffers
Department of Accounting and Finance Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The questionable accounting technique, known as Repo 105, allowed Lehman Brothers to temporarily appear healthier in the eyes of its investors, creditors and other interested parties. These material transactions had the ability to affect the decisions of prudent persons. Nevertheless, Lehman failed to disclose these transactions in the notes to their financial statements and in their filings to the SEC. In this paper, an examination is made of whether Repo 105 transactions were properly recorded and disclosed in Lehman's financial statements and whether Lehman's executives behaved ethically. To answer these questions, an examination is made of Generally Accepted Accounting Standards, …
Fasb/Gasb Recognition And Reporting Differences: A Nonprofit Sector Perspective, Treba Marsh, Mary Fischer
Fasb/Gasb Recognition And Reporting Differences: A Nonprofit Sector Perspective, Treba Marsh, Mary Fischer
Faculty Publications
The financial statement users’, investors’, donors’ and academic researchers’ understanding of current accounting recognition and reporting guidance affect their ability to compare financial information issued by nonprofit universities, hospitals, fund-raising organizations and government agencies. The financial results reported by public nonprofit organizations is different from that reported by private nonprofit organizations. This study discusses the events that brought about the divergence in nonprofit financial accounting recognition and reporting,and illustrates specific differences.
Environmental Risks: Doing Business In China, Jack R. Ethridge, Treba Marsh, Esther Bunn
Environmental Risks: Doing Business In China, Jack R. Ethridge, Treba Marsh, Esther Bunn
Faculty Publications
Planning and conducting the audit of financial statements involves understanding the entity and the environment in which it operates. First and foremost this requires identifying the risks faced by the entity. Identifying these risks can be a complex and difficult task since the auditor needs to not only understand the entity’s risk process but also independently understand the risks facing the firm. Tackling this task will involve a comprehensive review of the external and internal factors affecting the business. It is possible many identified business risks are related to financial reporting risk and ultimately to audit risk. Therefore, the auditor …