Statement Of Financial Accounting Concept No.

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Financial reporting is not an end in itself but is intended to provide information that is useful
in making business and economic decisions Objectives Of Financial Reporting In Paragraph 34
Financial reporting should provide information that is useful to present and potential investors and
creditors and other users in making rational investment, credit, and similar decisions. The information
should be comprehensible to those who have a reasonable understanding of business and economic
activities and are willing to study the information with reasonable diligence the focus of financial
reporting based on the purpose above is investors and creditors. investors and creditors from FASB
above is not as simple as that, but all of the people who directly involved in the transaction credit and
investment and people who involved as mediator. Financial reporting should provide information
about the economic resources of an enterprise, the claims to those resources (obligations of the
enterprise to transfer resources to other entities and ownersequity), and the effects of transactions,
events, and circumstances that change resources and claims to those resources. In paragraph 28 it
describes the objectives of financial reporting The objectives in this Statement are those of general
purpose external financial reporting by business enterprises. The objectives stem primarily from the
informational needs of external users who lack the authority to prescribe the financial information
they want from an enterprise and therefore must use the information that management
communicates to them. Although investment and credit decisions reflect investors and creditors
expectations about future enterprise performance, those expectations are commonly based at least
partly on evaluations of past enterprise performance. Management knows more about the enterprise
and its affairs than investors, creditors, or other outsiders and accordingly can often increase the
usefulness of financial information by identifying certain events and circumstances and explaining
their financial effects on the enterprise.
 Statement of Accounting Concept No. 2
The purpose of this Statement is to examine the characteristics that make accounting
information useful.Bias Bias in measurement is the tendency of a measure to fall more often
on one side than the other of what is represents instead of being equally likely to fall on either
side. Comparability The quality of information that enables users to identify similarities in
and differences between two sets of economic phenomena. Completeness The inclusion in
reported information of everything material that is necessary for faithful representation of the
relevant phenomena. Conservatism A prudent reaction to uncertainty to try to ensure that
uncertainty and risks inherent in business situations are adequately considered. Consistency
Conformity from period to period with unchanging policies and procedures. Feedback Value
The quality of information that enables users to confirm or correct prior expectations.
Materiality The magnitude of an omission or misstatement of accounting information that, in
the light of surrounding circumstances Neutrality Absence in reported information of bias
intended to attain a predetermined result or to induce a particular mode of behavior.Predictive
Value The quality of information that helps users to increase the likelihood of correctly
forecasting the outcome of past or present events. Relevance The capacity of information to
make a difference in a decision by helping users to form predictions about the outcomes of
past, present, and future events or to confirm or correct prior expectations. Reliability The
quality of information that assures that information is reasonably free from error and bias and
faithfully represents what it purports to represent. Representational Faithfulness
Correspondence or agreement between a measure or description and the phenomenon that it
purports to represent (sometimes called validity). Timeliness Having information available to
a decision maker before it loses its capacity to influence decisions. Understandability The
quality of information that enables users to perceive its significance. Verifiability The ability
through consensus among measurers to ensure that information represents what it purports
to represent or that the chosen method of measurement has been used without error or bias.