ACC 113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Financial Statement, Cybercrime, Retained Earnings

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Purpose of financial accounting is to communicate financial information to decision makers like investors or creditors. Communicate in gaap: set of rules used to communicate. Congress set up the sec (securities and exchange commission: sec develops the rules, only really has jurisdiction over public companies, public companies sell stock on the stock exchanges, rules kind of apply to everyone because of influence. Sec delegated authority to fasb (financial accounting standards board: primary group responsible for issuing rules, accountants and financial analysts, not laws, need consensus to get a new rule passed. Sec is a governmental body, fasb is a private group. Irs (internal revenue service: is a governmental body, rules are laws. Almost all companies keep 2 sets of books: one for stockholders, one for irs. Aicpa (american institute of cpas: auditors, if a company isn"t following gaap auditors issue an opinion, opinion says: In accordance with gaap: consequences for unclean opinion from auditors.

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