Financial Statements Prepared for Use in Other Countries 2205 the United States, the auditor may report using either (a) a U.S.-style reportmodiï¬ed to report on the accounting principles of another country (see para-graphs.09and.10)or(b)ifappropriate,thereportformoftheothercountry(seeparagraphs .11 and .12).
The cost method of investment accounting. The cost method of accounting is by far the most common approach for reporting investment gains and losses. That's true for retail investors and institutional investors alike. With this method, the actual cost of the investment is used as the baseline, with the profit or loss determined by the final sales price of the stock. For example, you buy a stock at $10, sell it at $15, netting a $5 profit.
Process Costing. Process costing is a cost accounting system in which direct costs are traced and indirect costs are allocated to processes carried out in different departments. The cost of finished goods is then computed based on average cost accumulated at the end of the last department.nlike job-order costing, which is another widely-used costing system, process costing averages out costs over all departments and values the finished products and closing work in process, if any, using either the first-in-first-out (FIFO) or weighted-average convention.