What is GAAP? GAAP stands for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles or prinsif-prinsif Generally Accepted Accounting Standards. GAAP
accounting is a common standard and the company went public that has
been developed over the years, and which is used by businesses to manage
their financial information into a concise record of accounting
transactions in financial reporting, as well as revealing some
supporting information.
One
reason to use GAAP financial statements is that the reader some
companies have a reasonable basis for comparison, since all companies
use GAAP financial statements has been made using the same rules.
that include GAAP arrangement are:
1. Financial Statements2. Assets3. Obligation4. Justice5. Revenue6. Load7. Merger8. Derivatives and hedging9. The fair value10. Foreign currency11. Rent12. Non-monetary transactions13. Events occurring after the balance sheet date
Special
accounting industry, such as airlines, extractive activities, and
health care from the GAAP statements of a series of government-sponsored
entity accounting, in which the Financial Accounting Standards Board
(FASB) is the latest. Securities
and Exchange Commission also issues accounting pronouncements through
Staff Accounting Bulletins and other announcements are only applicable
to publicly held companies, and are considered part of GAAP. GAAP codified into Accounting Standards Codification (ASC), which is available online and (more legible) in printed form.
GAAP is used primarily by companies to report their financial results in the United States. International Financial Reporting Standards, or IFRS, the accounting framework that is used in most countries. GAAP is much more than rule-based than IFRS. IFRS focuses more on general principles of GAAP, IFRS work made much smaller, cleaner, and easier to understand than GAAP.
There
are several working groups which gradually reduces the differences
between GAAP and IFRS accounting framework, so that eventually there
should be little difference in the results reported in the business when
switching between the two frameworks.
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