Accounting Policies | O Level Accounting 7707 & IGCSE Accounting 0452 | Detailed Free Notes To Score An A Star (A*)
- Comparability
- By using international accounting standards, we can compare the statements prepared in two different areas and times to each other.
- Relevance
- The accounting system should provide information that can help the end users of the information to make crucial decisions
- Any irrelevant and unnecessary information should not be present.
- Reliability
- Accounting systems should be consistent
- It should not produce different results and use different methods every time.
- All transactions must be checked, reviewed and verified
- Understandability
- The financial information present should be easy to understand
- It should not have too many jargons
- The statement should be easy to understand for a reader with reasonable business knowledge
- It should not require too much high level understanding to be understood.
