Accounting Standards Final
Accounting Standards Final
Accounting Standards Final
TOPIC: ACCOUNTING
STANDARDS
MEANING
THE ACCOUNTING STANDARDS ARE A SET OF GUIDELINES, I.E., GENERALLY
ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES, ISSUED BY THE ACCOUNTING BODY
OF THE COUNTRY SUCH AS THE INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS
OF INDIA, THAT ARE FOLLOWED FOR PREPARATION OF FINANCIAL
STATEMENTS.
DEFINITION
Kohler has defined Accounting Standards as “ a code of
conduct imposed on an accountant by custom, law and a
professional body.
OBJECTIVES
Enhancing reliability of financial statements
NATURE
Accounting Standards are mandatory in nature
Demerits/Disadvantages
1. Restricted scope.
2. Difficulty between Choosing Alternatives.
INTRODUCTION
Accounting Standards (i.e. AS 1~32) have been issued/ amended by the Accounting Standards
Board of ICAI from time to time, to establish uniform standards for preparation of financial
statements, in accordance with generally accepted accounting practices (GAAP) in India and for
better understanding of the users.
These standards are mandatory on the dates specified either in the respective document or by
notification issued by the Council of the ICAI.
These Accounting Standards are nearly 2 decades old and are being reviewed, modified and
upgraded to match the financial reporting requirements of Ind AS, as far as possible in the case of
SMEs.
ICAI has published a compendium of accounting standards as on 1 July 2019, which includes
various relevant Announcements of ICAI on the subject.
List of Mandatory Accounting Standards of ICAI (as on 1 July 2017 and onwards), is as under:
NAMES
OF
32
ACCOUNTING
STANDARDS
Disclosure of accounting policies Revenue Recognition
Intangible Assets
LET’s DISCUSS FEW IMPORTANT
AMONG THEM IN DETAIL
AS 1: DISCLOSURE OF ACCOUNTING
STANDARDS
This Standard deals with the disclosure of significant
accounting policies which are followed in preparing and
presenting financial statements.
. AS 2 : VALUATION OF
INVENTORIES
This Standard deals with the determination of value
at which inventories are carried in the financial
statements, including the ascertainment of cost of
inventories and any write-down thereof to net
realizable value.
AS 3 CASH FLOW STATEMENT
This Standard deals with the provision of information about the
historical changes in cash and cash equivalents of an enterprise by
means of a Cash Flow Statement which classifies cash flows during
the period from operating, investing and financing activities.
AS 15 Employee Benefits
The objective of this Standard is to prescribe the accounting
treatment and disclosure for employee benefits in the books of
employer except employee share-based payments. It does not
deal with accounting and reporting by employee benefit plans.
AS 16 : BORROWING COSTS
This Standard should be applied in accounting for
borrowing costs. This Standard does not deal with the
actual or imputed cost of owners’ equity, including
preference share capital not classified as a liability.
AS 26 : INTANGIBLE ASSETS
AS 26 prescribes the accounting treatment for intangible
assets (i.e. identifiable non-monetary asset, without
physical substance, held for use in the production or
supply of goods or services, for rental to others, or for
administrative purposes).
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