Financial Asset and Liability Classification Standards
Understanding Current Assets and Liabilities
Current Asset Classification Criteria
An asset is classified as current when it satisfies any of the following criteria:
- It is expected to be realized, or intended for sale or consumption, during the entity’s normal operating cycle.
- It is held primarily for trading purposes.
- It is expected to be realized within twelve months from the balance sheet date.
- It is cash or a cash equivalent.
Defining the Normal Operating Cycle
The normal operating cycle of an entity
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Understanding Core Financial Statement Elements
Assets: Definition and Classification
An Asset is an economic resource that has the potential to produce economic benefits. These benefits could include:
- Receiving contractual cash flows.
- Exchanging it for another resource.
- Using it to produce cash inflows or outflows.
- Using it to produce goods or services.
- Selling it or extinguishing it.
An asset is controlled by the entity, meaning the entity has the present ability to direct the use of the resource and
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Financial Accounting & External Reporting Environment
- Financial Accounting: A process involving collecting and processing financial information to meet decision-making needs of external parties. It is subject to many regulations, unlike management accounting which focuses on internal users and is largely unregulated.
- General Purpose Financial Reports (GPFR) / Statements (GPFS): A report that complies with the New Zealand Framework and accounting standards, designed to meet the needs of external
Change Management and Organizational Development
Change
Framework Conditions:
- Jumps in innovation cycles
- Shortening of resource time and money
- Key driver of change: the market
Managing Complexity:
- Operations: Reduced processing time, costs, manual work, and errors
- Customers: Faster, standardized customer service
- Information Technology: Lower development costs and fewer non-standard requirements
- Finance: Better understanding of probability and more predictability
- Marketing & Product Development: Faster time-to-market and lower costs
- Sales: Increased sales,
Mastering Change: Frameworks, Management, and Strategies
Change
Framework Conditions:
- Jumps in Innovation cycles
- Shortening of resources (time & money)
- Key driver of change: The market
Managing Complexity:
- Operations: Reduced processing time, costs, manual work & errors
- Customers: Faster, standardized customer service
- Information Technology: Lower development costs and fewer non-standard requirements
- Finance: Better understanding of probability and more predictability
- Marketing & Product Development: Faster time-to-market and lower costs
- Sales: Increased
Mastering Project Management Fundamentals
Kinds of Organizations
- Functional Organization: There isn’t communication between functional managers and staff.
- Weak Matrix Organization: Its problem is the degree of authority of the project manager. When they need something, they have to talk to the functional manager.
- Balanced Organization: The project manager has more authority.
- Strong Matrix Organization: The project manager has authority over the staff in charge.
- Projectized Organization: Has an administrative staff helping the PM full time.