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University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Contingencies in finance -- Accounting

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A Review Of The Accounting Treatment For Contingencies Arising From Environmental Issues, Colleen M. Sauser May 2015

A Review Of The Accounting Treatment For Contingencies Arising From Environmental Issues, Colleen M. Sauser

Honors Theses

The purpose of this project is to review the U.S. GAAP treatment of issues arising from environmental contingencies. This review consists of accounting literature and pronouncements issued by the FASB and SEC as well as environmental legislation, most notably CERCLA. The results of this review showed that the accounting industry has been one step behind environmental legislation and continues in its endeavor to provide financial statement users with useful information.