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Questionaire #2: Financial Reporting and Accounting Systems

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What information we want?

We want information about systems in financial reporting telling "what is" or " "what happened" compared to what "what should be" or "what should have happened". Based on the table about financial reporting process we find a need for accounting systems to ensure the following:
C01) Comparison of reporting plans with identified needs due to be satisfied and obligations due to be fulfilled.
C02) Comparison of book-keeping entries with events underlying them in terms of financial reporting assertions and GAAPs.
C03) Comparison of balances of assets and debts with veryfying sources of information.
C04) Comparison of financial statement items (balances) with respective account balances of book-keeping.
C05) Comparison of contents of steps in producing financial statements and annexes with respective items of acconting instructions.
C06) Comparison of contents of annual report with financial statements and its annexes.
C07) Comparison of contents of annual report with respective items of regulations.
C08) Comparison of contents and dates of financial statements' publishments with respective plans and items of regulations.
C09) The things that the staff is most worried in the accounting systems that are used in the financial reporting process.