Intermediate Accounting 14th Edition

Published by Wiley
ISBN 10: 0470587237
ISBN 13: 978-0-47058-723-2

Chapter 2 - Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting - Questions - Page 68: 13b

Answer

The act of occasional measurement has prompted a significant number of the most troublesome accounting issues such as inventory pricing, devaluation of long-term assets, and the need for income recognition tests. The accrual system calls for associating related expenses and revenues. This turns out to be exceptionally troublesome for an arbitrary time span with incomplete transactions in process at both the start and the finish of the period.

Work Step by Step

Various accounting practices like adjusting entries or the reporting of corrections of earlier periods result directly from endeavors to make every period's calculations as precise as could be expected under the circumstances but perceiving that they are just temporary in nature.
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