Professional Documents
Culture Documents
A.
Purpose:
• Create guidelines for worldwide and auditing standards in the form of statements.
• Identify the core values that should guide every member body of IFAC's code of ethics and
develop or expand on those values as necessary.
• Establish requirements and create programmes for accountants' professional development
and training.
• Gather, examine, study, and share data on public accounting practises management to help
practitioners run their businesses more successfully.
• Establish requirements and create programmes for accountants' professional development
and training.
• Gather, examine, study, and share data on public accounting practises management to help
practitioners run their businesses more successfully.
• Maintain positive relationships with regional groups and look into the possibility of starting
new regional organisations as well as providing support for their growth.
• Create frequent channels of communication between IFAC members and other parties with
an interest, primarily through an IFAC Newsletter.
• Coordinate and encourage the exchange of technical knowledge, instructional materials,
professional publications, and other written works produced by member organisations.
· Plan and host an international accounting congress roughly every five years;
• Work to increase the number of IFAC members.
B.
Examining a company's financial records or statements is referred to as auditing. Following
the completion of the financial accounts and statements, an audit is conducted. It entails
doing the statutory audit and inspection of the financial accounts.
An impartial and fair judgement on whether the financial records and statements accurately
reflect the organization's real financial situation is provided via auditing. On behalf of
regulators or shareholders, the auditors—typically outside individuals or organizations—
perform the auditing process in accordance with the relevant legal requirements. Auditing is
done to ensure that the records and assertions made by accounting are accurate. To assess the
accuracy and correctness of all the transactions that were recorded.
Internal auditing and external auditing are the two basic types of auditing. An internal
auditor, who is typically a member of the organization's staff, conducts an internal audit. An
external auditor is chosen by the shareholders to undertake the external audit.
2nd Answer
There are numerous accounting ideas and conventions that must be followed in the process of
keeping a company's books of accounts in order to maintain the integrity and uniformity of
accounting standards, which will result in accurate accounting in a firm.
COST CONCEPT :
The notion is that acquired assets and services should be documented at their actual cost. This
notion, also known as the Historical Cost concept, maintains that accounting records should
record the price at the time of receipt and continue to do so throughout the useful life.
Example: XYZ Ltd paid Rs 5,00,000 for machinery. The machine should be recorded at
5,00,000, according to the notion. Suppose after 8 months, the machine becomes scarce,
causing the market value to climb to Rs.5,30,000. As a result, the machinery is valued at Rs.
5,30,000 in the company's financial sheet. This is a violation of the Cost idea because,
according to the concept, assets should be recorded at their receipt price over their lifetime,
regardless of market price fluctuations, and the Cost principle assists us in correcting such
errors.
CONSERVATISM CONCEPT:
During accounting, all the profits only are recorded if they are certain but all the losses will
be recorded if they are doubtful also this would help the accountant to make a decision when
two solutions to any accounting challenge the one that yields inferior numbers has to be
considered as we would recognize the worst case scenario. For example: Suppose Bheeshma
corp. has a liability of 50,000rs to ABC company and if XYZ company owes Bheeshma an
amount of 40,000rs then the liability of amount 50,000 should be accounted immediately but
the amount of 40,000rs should be accounted only if that amount is certain to come back.
Science requires:
Checking Accounting is scientific, even if many authors still dispute it. It is a subclass of
higher human science that seeks to establish economic facts as "financial realities" with
monetary, mathematical explanations. "Practical knowledge" includes all scientific
information. Thus, these are social truths related to human culture and produced by economic
activity when people form and live in communities.
As a science based on experience, it studies the facts, makes speculative conclusions, and
tests them. It uses multiple levels, rules, norms, laws, and principles to build theories for a
discipline. Legality, identity, causality, order, structure, meaning, and direction make it
scientific knowledge. This science has distinct study methodologies, broad legal and
economic links, and methodology. Some authors' outdated belief that accounting is a practice
rather than a science is considered unscientific. If accounting is a technique, we would also
win.
Due to its practical application, accounting helps manage and increase economic activity at
various levels. Because it's a practical science, it develops its own experimental procedures,
such as data gathering and analysis, measurement, etc., to compare theories with facts.
Scientific research uses accounting to examine assertions based on experience, particularly
experimentation.
Art allows us to communicate our thoughts, feelings, intuitions, and desires, as well as our
worldview, which many people see as a reflection of themselves. It communicates secret
thoughts that words cannot express. Words alone aren't enough to describe our intent. Our
media stuff is not art. Media and content expression are art. "A manifestation of our thoughts,
feelings, instincts, and wants" is the common definition of art, hence all applied science is art.
Accounting involves creativity, inspiration, expertise, and experience. It fits these definitions.
Because research, issue solving, and answer verification need psychic abilities and personal
experiences, accountants use their professional knowledge to display their personalities at a
strategic and financial level. Your practice outcomes communication shows this. As an
accountant, you collect, categorize, record, describe, interpret, break down, and summarize in
monetary terms a company's activities, whether public or private, to obtain informative
reports that support, identify, and clarify strategic decision-making.
Administrative choices are based on more than accounting. As the decision-maker, you can
use scientific methods and advanced tools like expert systems to help you make decisions,
but the choice is yours. Decision-making is an art that depends on your personality,
background, and experiences. Thus, an accountant is a problem-solver who goes beyond the
scientific method and uses the art of decision making, which is essential for modern
businesses. An accountant uses this science and art to create strategic plans that assist the
firm achieve its goals.