Financial Accounting Standards Board

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This paper discusses the purpose of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which is to constantly monitor the condition of the financial accounting standards for their relevance to current market developments in order to foresee any probable problem areas and deliver secure functioning of companies, big and small investors and government as a whole. Specifically, the paper provides an explanation of FASB 128 and gives examples of its application.

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Introduction
Explanation of FASB 128 and Examples of Application

From the Paper:

"Thus, the financial accounting standard 128 requires the company to clearly state all the facts they include in the arriving at the earnings per share and diluted earnings per share ratio which is further on must be reported in the company income statement and thus reveal relevant information to the investors probable and those already holding the company stock. In order to avoid any misunderstanding on the actual company financial information as the number of financial derivatives has increased greatly during the recent past, the standard requires the derivatives such as options, warrants, contingently issuable shares or employee performance measures which can be convertible into common stock, to be accounted for as common stock at the most profitable price for the investors, or the market value for the conversion."

Sample of Sources Used:

• www.fasb.org, FASB 128, Par. 21.
• http://www.wku.edu/%7Ejack.hall/acct402.html
• www.iasb.org, http://www.iasb.org/uploaded_files/documents/8_63_ias33-sum.pdf#search='contingently%20earnings%20per%20share'
• http://www.nd.edu/~mshackel/acct_workshop/pdf_0304/jthomas1.pdf#search='FASB%20128'

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