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Background Note
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2001
(Revised from original 2000 version)
Asset Reporting
by
Paul M. Healy and Preeti Choudhary
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Abstract
Using historical cost and conservatism to identify and value assets, this case explains the criteria for asset reporting in straightforward situations and then examines scenarios where implementing the criteria for recognition and valuation of assets is conceptually challenging. These more complex situations occur when: 1) Ownership or control of a resource is uncertain; 2) The economic benefits from outlays are uncertain or difficult to quantify; or 3) Resource values have changed.
Keywords: Accounting;
Assets;
Problems and Challenges;
Accounting Industry;
Citation:
Healy, Paul M., and Preeti Choudhary. "Asset Reporting." Harvard Business School Background Note 101-014, January 2001. (Revised from original August 2000 version.)