cost accounting standards board
1Cost Accounting Standards Board - CASB — A U.S. federal government body that has the mandate of promoting consistency and uniformity in cost accounting activities involving government grants and contracts. Established by Congress in 1970, The Cost Accounting Standards Board (CASB) was… …
2Cost Accounting Standards Board — A board established in the USA in 1970 by Congress to promote consistency in cost accounting practices and to assist in the reporting of actual costs of government contracts. The board s responsibilities were taken over in 1980 by the Government… …
3Cost Accounting Standards — (popularly known as CAS) are a set of 19 standards and rules promulgated by the United States Government for use in determining costs on negotiated procurements. CAS differs from the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) in that FAR applies to… …
4Financial Accounting Standards Board — Infobox Non profit Non profit name = Financial Accounting Standards Board Non profit Non profit type = founded date = 1973 founder = location = Norwalk, Connecticut origins = Board Members = Robert H. Herz, ChairmanGeorge J. Batavick,… …
5International Accounting Standards Committee — was founded in June 1973 in London and replaced by the International Accounting Standards Board on April 1, 2001. It was responsible for developing the International Accounting Standards and promoting the use and application of these… …
6Accounting for leases in the United States — is regulated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).Accounting for leases by the lesseeA lease is defined as a contractual agreement between a lessor and lessee that gives the lessee the right to use specific property, either owned by …
7Accounting reform — is an expansion to accounting rules that goes beyond the realm of financial measures for both individual economic entities and national economies. It is advocated by those who consider the focus of the present standards and practices wholly… …
8Accounting scandals — Accounting scandals, or corporate accounting scandals, are political and business scandals which arise with the disclosure of misdeeds by trusted executives of large public corporations. Such misdeeds typically involve complex methods for… …
9accounting — /euh kown ting/, n. 1. the theory and system of setting up, maintaining, and auditing the books of a firm; art of analyzing the financial position and operating results of a business house from a study of its sales, purchases, overhead, etc.… …
10Cost of goods sold — Accountancy Key concepts Accountant · Accounting period · Bookkeeping · Cash and accrual basis · Cash flow management · Chart of accounts  …
