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What is the FASB?

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Slimming Tea 40 BagThe FASB is one organization that provides standardized guidelines for financial reporting. The mission of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is to establish and improve standards of financial accounting and reporting for the guidance and education of the public, including issuers, auditors and users of financial information.
Accounting standards are essential to the efficient functioning of the economy because decisions about the allocation of resources rely heavily on credible, concise, transparent and understandable financial information. Financial information about the operations and financial position of individual entities also is used by the public in making various other kinds of decisions.

To accomplish its mission, the FASB acts to:

–Improve the usefulness of financial reporting by focusing on the primary characteristics of relevance and reliability and on the qualities of comparability and consistency;
–Keep standards current to reflect changes in methods of doing business and changes in the economic environment;
–Consider promptly any significant areas of deficiency in financial reporting that might be improved through the standard-setting process;
–Promote the international convergence of accounting standards concurrent with improving the quality of financial reporting; and
–Improve the common understanding of the nature and purposes of information contained in financial reports.

The FASB develops broad accounting concepts as well as standards for financial reporting. It also provides guidance on implementation of standards. Concepts are useful in guiding the Board in establishing standards and in providing a frame of reference, or conceptual framework, for resolving accounting issues. The framework will help to establish reasonable bounds for judgment in preparing financial information and to increase understanding of, and confidence in, financial information on the part of users of financial reports. It also will help the public to understand the nature and limitations of information supplied by financial reporting.

How can you claim that?

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

A friend of mine just got his tax return check yesterday. My jaw dropped when I saw how much he was getting back. He had a great accounting firm do his taxes for him and I was amazed at the stuff he was allowed to claim. He got a return for a generator and all these tools he had bought throughout the year. He said his tax man told him he could claim that stuff as work related. I still can’t believe you can claim this stuff. I’m going to his tax man tomorrow, and see if he can get me a better return. Tax preparation Tucson.