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  2. International Financial Reporting Standards - Wikipedia

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    e. International Financial Reporting Standards, commonly called IFRS, are accounting standards issued by the IFRS Foundation and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). [1] They constitute a standardised way of describing the company's financial performance and position so that company financial statements are understandable and ...

  3. Accounting - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entities, such as businesses and corporations. [1] [2] Accounting measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of stakeholders, including investors, creditors, management ...

  4. Materiality (auditing) - Wikipedia

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    In terms of the Conceptual Framework (see "materiality in accounting" above), materiality also has a qualitative aspect. This means that, even if a misstatement is not material in "Dollar" (or other denomination) terms, it may still be material because of its nature. An example is if a disclosure is omitted from the financial statements.

  5. Basis of accounting - Wikipedia

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    Accounting. A basis of accounting is the time various financial transactions are recorded. The cash basis (EU VAT vocabulary cash accounting) and the accrual basis are the two primary methods of tracking income and expenses in accounting. Both can be used in a range of situations, from the accounts of a whole country [1] or a large corporation ...

  6. End user - Wikipedia

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    End user. In product development, an end user (sometimes end-user) [a] is a person who ultimately uses or is intended to ultimately use a product. [1] [2] [3] The end user stands in contrast to users who support or maintain the product, [4] such as sysops, system administrators, database administrators, [5] information technology (IT) experts ...

  7. Accounting information system - Wikipedia

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    Accounting. An accounting information system (AIS) is a system of collecting, storing and processing financial and accounting data that are used by decision makers. An accounting information system is generally a computer-based method for tracking accounting activity in conjunction with information technology resources.

  8. Financial analysis - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Financial analysis (also known as financial statement analysis, accounting analysis, or analysis of finance) refers to an assessment of the viability, stability, and profitability of a business, sub-business or project. It is performed by professionals who prepare reports using ratios and other techniques, that make use of information ...

  9. Public key infrastructure - Wikipedia

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    A public key infrastructure ( PKI) is a set of roles, policies, hardware, software and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store and revoke digital certificates and manage public-key encryption. The purpose of a PKI is to facilitate the secure electronic transfer of information for a range of network activities such as e ...