Financial Disclosure

What disclosures should the company report for segment purposes?

A part of an endeavor that may win incomes and bring about costs, and about which the board assesses separate monetary data in choosing how to assign assets and evaluate execution is being: Recognizable fragment, working fragment, Reportable fragment, and Industry fragment (Bookstaber & Richard, 2017). A substance is allowed to total working portions if the fragments are comparable concerning the nature of the operation forms, types or classes of clients, and methods used to disperse items or give administrations (Sharma & Narendra, 2013), and along these lines, an organization should reveal the accompanying data for its budgetary assessment. According to SFAS No.131, the exposure should likewise incorporate data concerning the endeavor’s items, data identified with an undertaking’s outside activities, and data identified with (Sharma & Narendra, 2013).

The company’s CEO believed that the rules are vague and that the company could easily support its decision to disclose the segment data by geographic regions. What would you recommend to the CEO and how would you approach the issues?

SFAS No. 131 requires the divulgence of data on an endeavor’s tasks in various enterprises for every yearxhibited and semi-annual period presented (Sharma & Narendra, 2013). According to SFAS No.131, the revelation should likewise incorporate data concerning the endeavor’s items, data identified with an undertaking’s remote activities, and data identified with an undertaking’s significant providers (Sharma & Narendra, 2013) The revelation of these items will help with confirming the value of the data given by the administration concerning the financial burdens (Bookstaber & Richard, 2017).

To decide if its fragment data clarify a generous segment of an association’s tasks, the joined income from deals to unaffiliated clients of every reportable section must comprise something like a. 10% of the joined income of every working fragment (Bookstaber & Richard, 2017). Current definitive proclamations require the divulgence of portion data when specific criteria are met (Sharma & Narendra, 2013), which of the accompanying mirrors the kind of firm and sort of budget report. For this, divulgence is required in yearly financial summaries for openly held organizations, annual budget reports for both freely held and not publicly held organizations, and yearly and semi-annual budget reports for the properly carried organization (Bookstaber & Richard, 2017).

References

Bookstaber, & Richard. (2017). Annual Review of Financial Economics.

Sharma, & Narendra. (2013). Disclosure regime for mandatory disclosures by banks and financial institutions in Nepal.

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Financial Disclosure

SMC Inc. operates restaurants based on various themes, such as Mex-delight, Chinese for the Buffet, and Steak-it and Eat-it. The Steak-it and Eat-it restaurants have not been performing well recently, but SMC prefers not to disclose these details for fear that competitors might use the information to the detriment of SMC.

Financial Disclosure

The restaurants are located in various geographical locations, and management currently measures profits and losses and asset alloca- tion by restaurant concept. However, when preparing the segmental disclosures, the company reports the segment information by geo- graphical location only. The company recently hired you to review the financial statements.

Answer each question separately and number them individually

1. What disclosures should the company report for segment purposes?
2. The company’s CEO believed that the rules are vague and that the company could easily support its decision to dis- close the segment data by geographic regions. What would you recommend to the CEO and how would you approach the issues?