Financial Accounting for Managers, 2/e, 2nd Edition

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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and Accounting Standards

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

This chapter will help the readers to:

• Understand the nature and purpose of GAAP.
• Visualize the impact of important accounting principles on financial reporting.
• Develop familiarity with key accounting principles.
• Understand the role of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) in setting of accounting standards.
• Get familiar with the key requirements of AS 1 ‘Disclosure of Accounting Policies’.
• Get an overview of all the accounting standards issued so far by the ICAI.
• Appreciate the need for having uniform global accounting standards.

2.1  NATURE OF GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES

Accounting principles or GAAP are general rules guiding ...