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 1. The development of accounting standards is influenced by such environmental considerations as the requirements of federal, state, and local government, and other regulatory bodies; influence of various tax laws on the financial reporting process; practices or problems of certain specialized industries (such as the motion picture or the oil and gas industries); inconsistencies in practice; disagreements among accountants, business executives, and others as to the objectives of financial statements; and influence of professional organizations test bank is available.

2. A primary reason for the establishment of accounting standards appears to be in response to the increasing needs of various financial statement users--including investors, lenders, and governmental entities; the increasing complexity of business enterprises and their underlying economic events and accounting transactions; and the increasing requests of government agencies, legislative bodies, and professional organizations to respond to this demand.

3. The test bank for FASB uses "due process" in developing its Standards, including identifying the problem or issue and considering legal or SEC pressures; deciding whether to consider the issue; establishing a task force to study the problem; having its research staff investigate the issues; issuing a discussion memo to interested parties; holding public hearings and request written comments on the issue; analyzing the results of the investigation, mail and hearings; if action is appropriate, issuing an exposure draft (a preliminary SFAS); requesting additional comments on the exposure draft and holding further public hearings; after analyzing the public response, issuing a final SFAS.

4. The FASB's conceptual framework project is a long-term project that should help describe concepts and relationships that underlie financial accounting standards and address such issues as the following: the elements of financial statements for test bank and their recognition, measurement, and display; capital maintenance; unit of measure criteria for distinguishing information to be included in financial statements from that which should be provided by other means of financial reporting; and criteria to evaluate and select accounting information (qualitative characteristics).  This project can help practitioners develop theoretical justification for resolving issues that contain no authoritative citations.

5. Textbook solutions for Statements of Financial Accounting Concepts (SFAC) are not authoritative because originally, FASB did not use full due process in this project.  Although the FASB is now working jointly with the IASB to issue new concept statements, the SFACs are still not authoritative. The FASB uses them as a guide for sound accounting principles when creating standards. 

6. Some authoritative publications of the AICPA include: ARBs and APB Opinions (and non-authoritative Statements of Position and Issues Papers) for textbook solutions is available.

7. Authoritative GAAP includes items issued by the FASB (statements, interpretations, technical bulletins, staff implementations guides, SFAS 138 examples); Emerging Issues Task Force abstracts and Topic D; Derivative Implementation Group Issues; Accounting Principle Board opinions; Accounting Research Bulletins; accounting interpretations; items issued by the AICPA (Statements of Position, audit and accounting guides, practice bulletins, technical inquiry services).  Non-authoritative includes items such as notable industry practice, textbook solutions, APB statements, AICPA issue papers, FASB concept statements, international accounting standards, textbooks, journal articles and monographs.  Since implementation of the Codification in July 2009, anything in the Codification is authoritative and anything outside of the Codification is non-authoritative.

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