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2. List the accounting Standards as issued by ICAI. Write short note on IFRS
The governance and oversight of the activities undertaken by the IFRS Foundation and its standard-setting body rests
with its Trustees, who are also responsible for safeguarding the independence of the IASB and ensuring the financing of
the organisation. The Trustees are publicly accountable to a Monitoring Board of public authorities.
Standard-setting
The IASB (International Accounting Standards Board)
The IASB is the independent standard-setting body of the IFRS Foundation. Its members (currently 15 full-time
members) are responsible for the development and publication of IFRSs, including the IFRS for SMEs and for approving
Interpretations of IFRSs as developed by the IFRS Interpretations Committee (formerly called the IFRIC). All meetings of
the IASB are held in public and webcast. In fulfilling its standard-setting duties the IASB follows a thorough, open and
transparent due process of which the publication of consultative documents, such as discussion papers and exposure
drafts, for public comment is an important component. The IASB engages closely with stakeholders around the world,
including investors, analysts, regulators, business leaders, accounting standard-setters and the accountancy profession.
The IFRS Interpretations Committee
The IFRS Interpretations Committee (formerly called the IFRIC) is the interpretative body of the IASB. The Interpretations
Committee comprises 14 voting members appointed by the Trustees and drawn from a variety of countries and
professional backgrounds. The mandate of the Interpretations Committee is to review on a timely basis widespread
accounting issues that have arisen within the context of current IFRSs and to provide authoritative guidance (IFRICs) on
those issues. Interpretation Committee meetings are open to the public and webcast. In developing interpretations, the
Interpretations Committee works closely with similar national committees and follows a transparent, thorough and open
due process.
3. Cash Book
The commercial vehicle business unit (CVBU) of Tata Motors, India's largest automobile manufacturer, has been
inducted in the exclusive club of organisations and corporate houses recognised by the prestigious Balanced Scorecard
Collaborative, Inc for achieving excellence in overall company performance. The coveted Steuben crystal 'Rising Star'
trophy was presented to the company at the Balanced Scorecard Asia Pacific Summit held at Gold Coast, Queensland
Australia.
Tata Motors-CVBU has been recognised for having achieved a significant turnaround in its overall performance. The
implementation of the Balanced Scorecard has enabled greater focus on different elements of operational performance.
Defining, cascading and communicating strategies across the organisation have brought about transparency and
alignment. The scorecard incorporates SQDCM (safety, quality, delivery, cost and morale) and VMCDR (volume, market
share, customer satisfaction, dealer satisfaction and receivables).
Ravi Kant, executive director, CVBU, Tata Motors, said, "While we were conscious of the benefits of the Balanced
Scorecard when we began implementing it three years back, we are extremely pleased that it has helped us achieve
significant improvements in our overall performance. I am quite positive that the BSC will play an important part in our
objective to become a world-class organisation."
Balanced Scorecard Collaborative president Dr David P Norton said, "We created the Hall of Fame to publicly
acknowledge the hard work and remarkable results of implementing the Balanced Scorecard to create the strategy-
focused organisation. The Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame pays tribute to the success that each organisation has
attained."
Tata Motors- CVBU shares the honour with the city of Brisbane and Korea Telecom (KT).
The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) concept-created by Dr Robert S Kaplan and Dr David P Norton in 1992, has been
implemented in thousands of corporations, organisations, and government agencies worldwide. Based on the simple
premise that "measurement motivates," the BSC puts strategy at the centre of the management process, allowing
organisations to implement strategies rapidly and reliably.
Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, Inc. is a new kind of professional services firm dedicated to the worldwide awareness,
use, enhancement, and integrity of the Balanced Scorecard as a value-added management process.
Tata Motors range of commercial vehicles spans over 135 models and can haul loads ranging from 2 to 40 tonnes. The
product portfolio also includes 12 to 60-seater buses, tippers and tractor-trailers. Tata Motors vehicles meet the
stringent Euro emission norms. The company currently has an export base in most parts of South Asia, Africa, Middle
East and Europe. Tata Motors recently crossed the 3-million production milestone.
5.
Schedule of change in working capital
Effect in working Capital
Particulars 2007 2008 Increase Decrease
Current Assets
Cash 114000 126000 12000
Short term investment 20000 42400 22400
debtors 50000 60000 10000
Stock 28000 38000 10000
(A) 212000 266400
Current Liabilities
Creditors 30000 40000 10000
Bills Payable 10000 20000 10000
(B) 40000 60000
Net working capital (A-B) 172000 206400
Increase in working capital 34400 34400
206400 206400 54400 54400
6.
Cash budget is n estimation of the cash inflows and outflows for a business or individual for a specific period of time.
Cash budgets are often used to assess whether the entity has sufficient cash to fulfill regular operations and/or whether
too much cash is being left in unproductive capacities.
A cash budget is extremely important, especially for small businesses, because it allows a company to determine how
much credit it can extend to customers before it begins to have liquidity problems.
For individuals, creating a cash budget is a good method for determining where their cash is regularly being spent. This
awareness can be beneficial because knowing the value of certain expenditures can yield opportunities for additional
savings by cutting unnecessary costs.
For example, without setting a cash budget, spending a dollar a day on a cup of coffee seems fairly unimpressive.
However, upon setting a cash budget to account for regular annual cash expenditures, this seemingly small daily
expenditure comes out to an annual total of $365, which may be better spent on other things. If you frequently visit
specialty coffee shops, your annual expenditure will be substantially more.
2.
Job Costing:
This is a product related classification of costing system. The cost is ascertained for each job or work order processed.
This systems is used where most of the manufacturing activities are planned and carried out for distinct jobs or
customers. The utility of this method increases when there is great variability in nature of jobs or work orders processed.
Batch Costing :
This method determines the cost associated with each batch pf products manufactured. This differs from job or work
order costing in the variability of the production batches. In this case the production batches consist of mostly standard
products or components. What varies is mostly the size of batches and the timing of their processing.
Process Costing:
In this method of costing the costs are determined for various different manufacturing activities or processes. These
costs are the assigned to different products on the basis of some criteria like quantity processed or the time taken for
processing. This method of costing is suitable for manufacturing units that use continuous processes or mass production
techniques. This method is particularly suitable where there are many different products and process routes, where
output of one process becomes input for another.
Operation Costing:
This method is similar to the process costing. However the products manufactured have limited variation. For example a
cement plant may use this method.
Multiple costing:
Most of the organizations use a combination of different costing method rather than just one method. Multiple costing
refers to such combinations of different methods.
3.
Variable costs are costs that can be varied flexibly as conditions change. In the John Bates Clark model of the firm that
we are studying, labor costs are the variable costs. Fixed costs are the costs of the investment goods used by the firm, on
the idea that these reflect a long-term commitment that can be recovered only by wearing them out in the production
of goods and services for sale.
The idea here is that labor is a much more flexible resource than capital investment. People can change from one task
to another flexibly (whether within the same firm or in a new job at another firm), while machinery tends to be designed
for a very specific use. If it isn't used for that purpose, it can't produce anything at all. Thus, capital investment is much
more of a commitment than hiring is. In the eighteen-hundreds, when John Bates Clark was writing, this was pretty
clearly true. Over the past century, a) education and experience have become more important for labor, and have made
labor more specialized, and b) increasing automatic control has made some machinery more flexible. So the differences
between capital and labor are less than they once were, but all the same, it seems labor is still relatively more flexible
than capital. It is this (relative) difference in flexibility that is expressed by the simplified distinction of long and short
run.
Of course, productivity and costs are inversely related, so the variable costs will change as the productivity of labor
changes.
Here is a picture of the fixed costs (FC), variable costs (VC) and the total of both kinds of costs (TC) for the productivity
Output produced is measured toward the right on the horizontal axis. The cost numbers are on the vertical axis. Notice
that the variable and total cost curves are parallel, since the distance between them is a constant number -- the fixed
cost.
4.
20500
Sundry debtors 0
Less Bad debt 5000
less PBD 20000
18000
0
Date Particulars LF Dr Cr
Bad debt A/c ………………………………………………………. Dr 5000
To, Debtors A/c 5000
P/L A/c ………………………………………………………………… 5000
Dr 5000
To Bad debt A/c
P/L A/c ……………………………………………………………….. Dr 20000
To, Provision for bad debt A/c 20000
Dr Bad Debt A/c Cr
L Dat L
Date Partriculars F Rs e Partriculars F Rs
To P/L A/c 5000 By, Debtors A/c 5000
5000 5000
Dr P/L A/c Cr
L Dat L
Date Partriculars F Rs e Partriculars F Rs
To Bad debt A/c 5000
2000
To, PBD 0
2500
0
Balance Sheet
Liability Rs Assets Rs
20500
Sundry debtors 0
LES
S Bad debt 5000
LES
S PBD 20000
18000
0
6.
Accounting plays a very important role in all businesses but it is not just the business itself that finds accounting
information useful. There are other stake holders who rely on accounting information to make decisions. These
stakeholders include:
1. Shareholders - Shareholders use the balance sheet and profit and loss account produced by limited companies to
decide if they are going to increase or decrease their holding.
2. Management - Management in every level of the business from director level to supervisor level rely on accounting
information to do their job properly. They all use the same information for different purposes. For example, directors
use it for strategic purposes and middle management can use it to see if they are meeting their financial targets.
3. Suppliers - Along with other data suppliers will look at a company's balance sheet and profit and loss account to see if
and how much credit they are willing to give to present and potential customers.
4. Lenders - Similar to suppliers lenders also need to make sure a company is in a healthy financial situation before they
start to lend money.
5. Government - Governments use the information provided by a company about its finances to levy tax on the profits.
6. Customers - Before another company becomes a customer or enters into a joint venture, they will look at the
company's finances to make sure the company is not in trouble and that their supplies are not about to dry up.
7. Employees - Employees also have an interest in how well their employer is doing so use financial accounting
information for this purpose.