The FASB Conceptual Framework Project, 1973-1985
The FASB Conceptual Framework Project, 1973-1985

Author: Pelham Gore

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780719036330

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This work investigates why the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Conceptual Framework Project (1973-1985), which sought to set down financial reporting standards for accounting, attracted so much criticism. The author suggests that a CF is expected to bear too heavy a load, but that it cannot furnish the answer to all financial accounting ills. He believes that the best contribution that a CF can offer is that it can provide a focus to the debate that leads to a new financial reporting standard.

A Conceptual Framework for Financial Accounting and Reporting
A Conceptual Framework for Financial Accounting and Reporting

Author: Richard Macve

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1317842774

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First published in 1997. This volume is a collection of studies that look at the ‘conceptual framework’ undertaken initially for the UK’s Accounting Standards Committee (‘ASC’), and to consider how far the views expressed in them have stood the test of time as standard setters around the world have followed in the FASB’s footsteps.

The FASB's Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting
The FASB's Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting

Author: George J. Benston

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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This paper addresses the issues that confront the FASB and IASB in developing a new conceptual framework document. First, we suggest characteristics that a conceptual framework ought to exhibit. Most of these suggestions are based on our critique of the existing framework and the FASB-IASB work in progress. Second, we present a model framework that exhibits these characteristics. We emphasize up front that this framework is quite explicit. It goes to the heart of what a framework document should do: it places specific restrictions on what constitutes admissible accounting standards. The purpose of our effort is to stimulate broad discussion of alternative approaches to foundational documents and to offer a specific example of such an alternative approach.

The FASB
The FASB

Author: Paul B. W. Miller

Publisher: Irwin Professional Publishing

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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Irreconcilable Differences? The FASB's Conceptual Framework and the Public Interest
Irreconcilable Differences? The FASB's Conceptual Framework and the Public Interest

Author: Wm. Dennis Huber

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13:

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It has been shown that protecting and serving the public interest in public accounting is a myth. It has also recently been demonstrated that protecting and serving the public interest by the Securities and Exchange Commission is not the primary, or even secondary, mission of the SEC. Finally, it has been proven that is not the mission of the FASB to serve the public interest. Recently, the FASB has revised its “Conceptual Framework.” The FASB's Conceptual Framework is “intended to serve the public interest by providing structure and direction to financial accounting and reporting to facilitate the provision of unbiased financial and related information [which] helps capital and other markets to function efficiently in allocating scarce resources in the economy and society” (emphasis added) However, since it is not the mission of either the FAF (Financial Accounting Foundation, the parent of the FASB), or the FASB to serve the public interest, whether the FASB's Conceptual Framework can serve the public interest as intended, or whether the Conceptual Framework is incompatible with the public interest is questionable.This paper explores the question of whether the Conceptual Framework is compatible with the public interest. The question is important to consider because if the Conceptual Framework cannot serve the public interest as intended, then it may be necessary to revise the Conceptual Framework in order to achieve its intended purpose of serving the public interest.This is the working paper version.