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Financial Reporting
QUESTIONS
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development of generall y accepted accounting principles.
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Their role was substantially re duced in 1973 when the
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Financial Accounting Standards Board was established.
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Their role was further reduced with the s
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Oversight Board w as established in 2002.
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b. The Financial Accounting Standards Board replaced
the Acc ounting Principles Board as the primary
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rule-
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c. The SEC has the authority to determine generally
accepted a ccounting principles and to regulate the
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accounting profession. The SEC has elected to leave
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much of the determination of generally accepted
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accounting principles to the private sector. ss
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has played
the major role in establishing accounting standards since
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1973.
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egulation of the accounting profession was substantially
turned over to the Public Company Accounting Oversight
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Board in 2 002.
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2. Consistency is obtained through the application of the same a
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ccounting principle
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1- 4. a. Entity e. Historical cost
,b. Realization f. Historical cost
, c. Materiality g. Disclosure