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Accounting Measurement System
Accounting Measurement System
Lecturer :
M.G Fitria Harjanti
Written by :
Ivan Hertanto / 141521400
In order to determine historical cost profit, the accounting entity must first retain the
same amount of capital from the beginning of the period (their purchase costs).
Income indicates the accomplishments of the firm for the given period, whereas
expenses represent the efforts expended, and profit correlates with the effectiveness
of the firm as an operating unit.
The historical cost accountant keeps track of the flow of costs, when the company
purchase goods and services, the accountant’s task is to trace the movement of cost
and match them to the revenues received as they flow through the business.
Exit price accounting is a system of accounting which uses market selling prices to
measure the firm’s financial position and financial performance. It has 2 major
departures from conventional historical cost accounting :
1. The values of non-monetary assets are adjusted to measure changes in market
selling prices specific to those assets and they are included in income as
unrealized gains.
2. Changes in the general purchasing power of money are take into consideration
when measuring financial capital and the results of operations
It represents clean surplus accounting, the income statement explains all of the
differences existing between the opening and closing balance sheets.
Objective of exit price accounting is providing data for adaptive decision making, in
assumption that business world is dynamic and business must adapt to survive.
Firms and those associated with them go into markets to take advantage of
opportunities as they arise.
Both of them similar when markets are liquid and efficient, and there are some factors
common to both of them :
1. Market prices are more relevant for decision making
2. Additivity and reliability are prime requirements
3. Historic cost accounting has too many defects
They are complements (Can be used together) not substitutes, value in use assess long
term survival (solvency), while value in exchange assesses the ability to adapt in the
short term (liquidity).