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Briefly explain the meaning of each of the following accounting concepts, giving in each case, an example of the application of each: (i) Materiality (ii) Substance over...

      

Briefly explain the meaning of each of the following accounting concepts, giving in each case, an example of the application of each:
(i) Materiality
(ii) Substance over form
(iii) Money measurement

  

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Mutiso
(I) MATERIALITY
Information or a business item is material if its omission or misstatement would
influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of financial statements.
Materiality depends on the size of item or error judged in the particular circumstances
of its omission or misstatement. Thus materiality provides a threshold or cut off point
rather than being a primary qualitative characteristic that information must have if its to
be useful.
Materiality would be applied to the amount of a trade debt written off as irrecoverable.
It could be disclosed by a note if its material. It the materiality concept is not followed,
financial statements would be confusing by inclusion of unnecessary trivial details or
could be misleading by excluding important matters.
(II) SUBSTANCE OVERFORM
States that transactions and other events should be accounted for with their substance
and not merely with its legal form e.g. under finance lease and the hire purchase
agreement.
(III) MONEY MEASUREMENT
Under this concept, the financial statements are prepared by including only those items
which have a monetary value e.g Financial accounting can only deal with items capable
of being expressed in monetary items. The concept is relevant in deciding whether or
not an asset should be included on the balance sheet.
Mutiso answered the question on November 17, 2018 at 12:02


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