tailieunhanh - The solutions manual for advanced financial accounting_2

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the solutions manual for advanced financial accounting_2', tài chính - ngân hàng, kế toán - kiểm toán phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Chapter 5 Assets I 97 An interesting example of the somewhat odd outcome that emerges from the debates about an asset s tangibility relates to websites. A well-designed and skilfully targeted website will generate considerable economic benefits and hence must be regarded as constituting an asset but is it tangible or intangible This question and here one is rather reminded of angels dancing on pins was addressed by the Urgent Issues Task Force UITF which published an abstract on the subject in February It was concluded that a website does indeed constitute an asset if there existed reasonable grounds for supposing that future economic benefits would exceed the costs to be capitalised. If the case could be made the amount to be capitalised would be the expenditure related to infrastructure costs including the cost of registering the domain name and software and the costs of designing the site and in preparing and posting the content of the site. It might be thought that the asset has more of a virtual than a physical substance but even so the UITF experienced some difficulty in determining whether it should be treated as a tangible or an intangible asset. They did however identify a precedent in paragraph 2 of FRS 10 Goodwill and Intangible Assets where it is stated that software development costs that are directly attributable to bringing a computer system into working condition should be treated as part of the cost of the related hardware rather than as a separate intangible asset. On the basis of this somewhat imperfect analogy the UITF decided that website development costs should be treated as a tangible asset. It is not altogether clear how this view can be squared with the FRS 15 definition of a tangible asset that includes the requirement that it has a physical substance see p. 100 . A more important question however is does it matter whether website expenditure is tangible or intangible We shall return to this question on p. 122 after dealing with .

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