Essay
The Financial Accounting Standards Boards (FASB) defined conceptual framework as a consistent of underlying concepts and the ideas that describe the nature and general purpose of financial reporting which may lead to consistent standard in accounting (Deegan 2010). The role of the conceptual framework is to ensure that financial statements in accounting are free from bias and to provide useful information that is useful for user’s decision making. The standard-setting board also formulated a range of perceptions and theories related to accounting to trigger the objectives of financial reporting. The standard-setting board keeps issuing the conceptual framework over time to ensure that the conceptual framework’s objectives are improving to provide useful financial information. The innovative work on conceptual framework was embraced in the United States by the FASB in the early 1970s. The FASB accomplished disappointment in attempting to generate a standard that at the outset might not appear to present, especially testing theoretical issues. Regardless, while attempting to achieve concession on Statement of Financial Accounting Standard, tending to the theoretical issues produced critical matter for the board members. In this manner, throughout the outset the FASB understood the requirement for an obvious conceptual framework. Based on Hines’s argument, the conceptual framework is mean to provide the ability to increase self-regulate of a profession in order to neutralizing government interference from arising. Whether this argument has been accepted or not will be discussed in more detail with supported evidence to clarify the main point about Hines’s argument. Further details about this argument will discuss below.
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Ruth Dianne Hines, born 1951 is an Australian Accounting academic based in the School of Economic and financial studies at Macquarie University from 1978-1994. The Conceptual Frameworks are ‘a strategic maneuver for providing legitimacy to standard-setting boards during periods of competition or threatened government intervention,’ Hines raised this argument in her 1989 journal ‘Financial Accounting Knowledge, Conceptual Framework Project and the Social Construction of the Accounting Profession’. In order to identify the basis of Hines’ argument, one must first take a look at what the Conceptual Framework (CF) is, as well as its purpose. Throughout this discussion, I will be examining – the need for a CF, the benefits and how it provides a legitimacy to the accounting profession. I will also be exploring both the local and international history of the CF projects that were undertaken, why they were undertaken and if these purposes relate to Hine’s argument.
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