This course provides insight about IASB Conceptual framework, underlying assumptions, qualitative characteristics and other accounting concepts. It encourages you to think more deeply about the assumptions on which financial statements are prepared as well as explains the qualitative characteristics of financial information, which is important for reporting any information to shareholders and business stakeholders.

This course deals with accounting conventions which lie behind accounts preparation for sole traders, partnerships or even public limited companies. You will see how conventions and assumptions are put into practice in real life. There is no point in number crunching for financial statements preparation until and unless you understand the underlying principles behind.

This course gives idea about background and history of international accounting standard board (IASB). Moreover, it provides insight about IASB Conceptual framework, underlying assumptions, qualitative characteristics and other accounting concepts.

Course Key Concepts: IASB Conceptual Framework, Accounting assumptions, Accounting principles, Fundamentals of accounting, IASB, FASB, Accounting standards, IAS, IFRS, Global accounting standards, Global accounting principles, Qualitative characteristics of financial information.

Learning Objectives
  • Discover, understand and apply qualitative characteristics of financial information.
  • Explore the relevance, faithful representation, comparability, verifiability, timeliness and understandability characteristics.
  • Discover, understand and apply accounting concepts.
  • Identify the meaning of materiality, Substance over form, going concern, Business entity concept, accruals, prudence and consistency concepts.
  • Recognize and learn to differentiate between fundamental and enhancing qualitative characteristics.
Last updated/reviewed: August 11, 2023
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Good overview of IASB Conceptual Framework. Nice to have a theoretical underpinning.

Prerequisites
Course Complexity: Foundational

No advanced preparation or prerequisites are required for this course.

Education Provider Information
Company: Illumeo, Inc., 75 East Santa Clara St., Suite 1215, San Jose, CA 95113
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Course Syllabus
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
  Course Preview6:22
IASB'S ACCOUNTING CONVENTIONS
  IASB's Conceptual Framework13:54
  IASB's Accounting Conventions2:03
  Going Concern Assumption9:52
  Accruals principle5:36
  Prudence or Conservatism Principle8:10
  Consistency Principle6:36
  Business Separate Entity Concept5:32
  Example - Going concern Vs Breakup basis5:50
IASB'S QUALITATIVE CHARACTERISTICS
  IASB's Qualitative Characteristics4:36
  Fundamental Characteristics17:12
  Enhancing Characteristics5:40
  Examples and Practice8:01
CONTINUOUS PLAY
  IASB Conceptual Framework - Qualitative Characteristics1:39:24
SUPPORTING MATERIAL
  Slides: IASB Conceptual Framework - Qualitative CharacteristicsPDF
  IASB Conceptual Framework - Qualitative Characteristics Glossary/ IndexPDF
  Handout: IASB Conceptual Framework - Qualitative CharacteristicsPDF
REVIEW AND TEST
  REVIEW QUESTIONSquiz
 FINAL EXAMexam