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Truth in Accounting (TIA), formerly known as the Institute for Truth in Accounting, is a nonpartisan American think tank that promotes fiscal transparency and accountability through improving the accounting standards the government uses which are different than the standards they require of corporations. [2] [3] Its stated goal is "to educate ...
The Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) is a United States federal advisory committee whose mission is to improve federal financial reporting through issuing federal financial accounting standards and providing guidance after considering the needs of external and internal users of federal financial information. [3]
In analytic philosophy and computer science, referential transparency and referential opacity are properties of linguistic constructions, [a] and by extension of languages. A linguistic construction is called referentially transparent when for any expression built from it, replacing a subexpression with another one that denotes the same value [b] does not change the value of the expression.
Accounting standards are based on French GAAP for the private sector, IFRS and IPSAS. Standards are issued by the Conseil de normalisation des comptes publics (Advisory council on public sector accounting standards). Gambia – In the process of adopting the cash basis IPSAS, will then move to adopt accrual basis IPSAS.
The Budget and Accounting Transparency Act of 2014 is a bill that would modify the budgetary treatment of federal credit programs. [1] The bill would require that the cost of direct loans or loan guarantees be recognized in the federal budget on a fair-value basis using guidelines set forth by the Financial Accounting Standards Board. [1]
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is a private standard-setting body [1] whose primary purpose is to establish and improve Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) within the United States in the public's interest.
The Codification of Statements on Auditing Standards is generally issued in January, and the U.S. Auditing Standards is issued as part of the AICPA Professional Standards in June of each year. The current U.S. Auditing Standards are available at the AICPA's Web site. Below is a list of older codifications from the Professional Standards.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) publishes and maintains the Accounting Standards Codification (ASC), which is the single source of authoritative nongovernmental U.S. GAAP. [2] The FASB published U.S. GAAP in Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) beginning in 2008.