2006
DOI: 10.2308/api.2006.6.1.1
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The FASB and Accounting for Economic Reality

Abstract: The proposal by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in 2002 to produce principles-based accounting standards is an explicit commitment to use its conceptual framework to improve financial accounting. In effect, it is a proposal to assist accounting for economic reality. However, an evaluation of the proposal and related FASB communications reveals a global strategy more concerned with achieving comparability and consistency than identifying improved ways of recognizing and representing socially-con… Show more

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“…Starting from this idea, various accounting scholars have elucidated ontological and epistemological perspectives that might be adopted to interpret accounting reality (e.g. Morgan, 1988;Mouck, 2004;Mattessich, 2009;Lee, 2006 andBarker and Schulte, 2017). In analysing the potential of these perspectives, such scholars acknowledge the general failure to address related, practical issues.…”
Section: Searle's Theory Of Institutional Realitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Starting from this idea, various accounting scholars have elucidated ontological and epistemological perspectives that might be adopted to interpret accounting reality (e.g. Morgan, 1988;Mouck, 2004;Mattessich, 2009;Lee, 2006 andBarker and Schulte, 2017). In analysing the potential of these perspectives, such scholars acknowledge the general failure to address related, practical issues.…”
Section: Searle's Theory Of Institutional Realitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Estas regulaciones constituyen elementos de la ontología contable dado que constituyen instituciones y sobre ellas se ha afirmado que constituyen desarrollos conceptuales de epistemologías objetivas que evolucionaron de las relaciones causa-efecto a las relaciones fines medios (Mattessich, 2003), con fuertes fundamentos epistemológicos relativos a la construcción social de la verdad por aplicación de los trabajos de Searle (1997), como lo afirman desde perspectivas críticas constructivistas (Lee, 2006).…”
Section: Problemas De Segmentación Cognitivaunclassified
“…La siguiente polémica sobre el problema de la representación contable lo sostuvo Macintosh con Tomas Lee (2006). Lee se refiere a la propuesta de FASB formulada en 2002 para formular una regulación contable basada en un marco conceptual, generando una alternativa para la contabilidad de reglas que ha prevalecido en Estados Unidos y también a nivel internacional a pesar de las apariencias.…”
Section: Acerca De Los Argumentos De Thomas Leeunclassified