TUGAS 2
1. Ethical
principles of the accounting profession according to IFAC AICPA IAI
A. Code of
Ethics The Fundamentals of IFAC Professional Accountants are as follows:
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Integrity
A professional accountant must be firm
and honest in all his involvement in professional and business relationships.
·
Objectivity
A professional accountant should not
allow biases, conflicts of interest, or excessive influence from others to rule
out professional or business judgment.
·
Professional
competence and sincerity
A professional accountant must act
diligently and in accordance with applicable technical and professional
standards in providing professional services.
·
Confidentiality
A professional accountant must respect
the confidentiality of information obtained as a result of business
relationships and business professionals shall not disclose such information to
third parties, without proper and specific authority unless there is a legal or
professional right or obligation to disclose.
·
Professional
Behavior
A
professional accountant must be obedient to relevant laws and regulations and
should avoid actions that may discredit the profession.The ethical principles
B.
According to the AICPA are as follows:
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Responsible
in carrying out their responsibilities
as professionals, members should apply sensitive professional and moral
judgments in all their activities.
·
Public interest
members must accept their obligation to
act in a manner that serves the public interest, respect for public trust, and
demonstrate a commitment to professionalism.
·
Integrity
to maintain and extend public trust,
members must perform all professional responsibilities with the highest
integrity.
·
Objectivity and
Independence
A member shall maintain objectivity and
be free from conflicts of interest in carrying out professional responsibility,
and shall be independent in presenting facts and views when providing audit
services and other attestation services.
·
Due Care
a member must comply with the technical
and ethical standards of the profession, strive continuously to improve
competence and service in carrying out the professional responsibilities with
the best members ability.
·
Nature and
Service Coverage
a member in public practice shall
observe the Principles of the Professional Code of Ethics in determining the
scope and nature of the services to be provided.
C. Ethical
principles according to IAI in Congress VIII of 1998 which has been determined:
·
Profession
Responsibility
In the principle of professional
responsibility, each member is obliged to use moral and professional
considerations for each activity.
·
Public Interest
Each member is obliged to always act
within the framework of public service, respect for public trust, and
demonstrate a commitment to professionalism.
·
Integrity
Integrity is a unity that underlies the
emergence of professional recognition. Integrity is a quality that underlies
public trust and is a standard for members in testing all decisions it makes.
·
Objectivity
The principle of objectivity requires
members to be fair, impartial, honest, intellectual, unbiased or biased, and
free from conflict of interest or under the influence of others
2. Understanding
of elements and Examples of accounting systems
A. Understanding Accounting Systems
According to Experts Warren, Reeve, Fees (2005: 234)
According to Warren, Reeve, Fees,
Accounting systems are methods and procedures for collecting, clarifying,
summarizing, and reporting information on a company's business (operational)
and financial activities.
B. Elements of the accounting system
are:
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Form
A form is a document used to record or
record a transaction event. In the form there are transaction data that can be
used as a basis in recording.
§
Journal
Journal is an accounting system
undertaken to record, group similar transactions, and summarize other financial
data. The results of data summaries are then posted to the respective accounts
in the ledger. Commonly used Journals form are as follows:
- Journal of Cash Receipts, which is a
journal that is provided specifically for mecatat cash receipts transactions.
- Journal of Cash Expenditures, which is
a special journal provided to record all types of cash expenditures.
- Journal of Purchase, the journal used
to record purchases on credit. Cash purchases fit into cash disbursement
journals.
- Sales Journal, which is a journal that
is provided specifically to record sales transactions on credit.
Cash sales are included in the cash
receipts journal.
- General Journals, these are typically
reserved for keeping track of bookkeeping adjustments, correction of
transactions and anything else that can not be recorded in special journals.
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General Ledger
The ledger consists of a set of accounts
that serve to summarize the financial data previously recorded in the journal.
The ledger account is also considered as a place for the classification of
financial data for the presentation of financial statements.
§
Subsidiary
Ledger
Auxiliary book contains auxiliary
accounts in detailing financial data, such as grouping the types of transactions
that occur in one company with one another.
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Report
The report is the end result of the
accounting process in the form of balance sheet, income statement, capital
change report, marketing cost report, production cost report, cost of goods
sold report, debt list, inventory balance list.
C. Examples of Accounting Systems
Here are some examples of accounting
systems, including:
§
Management
accounting
The purpose of management accounting is
to provide accounting information to managers for the purposes of planning,
controlling, and managing business operations.
§
Inventory
Accounting
Inventory accounting systems are used to
plan and track inventory levels, as well as related inventory activities. One
of the common inventory systems is bar code tracking, where each item is marked
with a bar code item.
§
Non Profit
Accounting
Non-profit accounting is an accounting
system for nonprofits that have specific characteristics of reporting
requirements. For example about the fund tracking system, so donations given
for certain purposes can be known to have been channeled correctly. The
software should also be able to generate reports of total donations donated by
individual donors.
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