Failures of Conceptual Accounting Framework in Australia: A Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the failures of the Conceptual Accounting Framework in Australia, focusing on the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB). It explores the historical context, purpose, and disadvantages of the framework, highlighting issues such as rigidity, conflicts with established guidelines, and limitations in addressing the needs of all users. The report delves into specific failures related to the definition of assets and liabilities, lobbying introduction, innovation limitations, and expenses redefinition. It critiques the framework's impact on financial reporting, emphasizing the importance of observable events and the consequences of prioritizing certain interests over others. The analysis concludes by underscoring the need for a more adaptable and inclusive framework that fosters economic growth and provides more comprehensive and reliable information. The report highlights the need for the AASB to consider the needs of all stakeholders, including managers, investors, and corporations, and to address the costs and benefits of reporting to ensure more efficient capital markets.

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FAILURE OF CONCEPTUAL ACCOUNTING FRAMEWORK IN AUSTRALIA
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In monetary reporting, a conceptual framework is a system of accounting arranged by a
typical-setting organization against which concrete problems can be evaluated empirically. A
conceptual framework deals with essential financial recording issues like the objectives and the
users of monetary statements, the features that brand accounting facts useful, the straightforward
basics of monetary statements (e.g. The possessions, liabilities, impartiality, earnings, and
expenses), and the notions for identifying and determining these elements in the monetary
statements (Cuthill, M., 2011, p.81).
Historically, the very first conceptual framework for monetary reporting was established
in 1970s by FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board) in the United States. Since then,
most typical-setting organizations in developed countries, specifically considering Australia,
have pursued to come up with their individual conceptual framework to assist in guiding the
typical-setting progression commonly known as the Australian Accounting Standard Board, has
assessed the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and produced a conceptual
framework for the purpose of assessing the accounting standard issued by the IASB
(International Accounting Standard Board) (Cuthill, M., 2011,p.101). Their main purpose is to
guarantee that the financial reporting standard for the firms in Australia is compelled by
principle-centered accounting policies, thus more concern in affluence over form (Meyer and
Land, 2015, p.123). One of their main aims was to offer as much possible impact towards the
expansion of the global reporting framework. AASB has alerted accounting standard along with
improving pronouncement. AASB has given accounting framework for the planning and
presentation of the monetary statement.
THE PURPOSE OF CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

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AASB issued accounting framework for several tenacities as listed below:
The AASB by this framework attempts to harmonize the Australian Accounting
Standard with the necessity of other controllers in order to evade any conflict and encourage
harmonization amidst all the regulatory requirements which will also ease burden and confusion
among the firms using this framework (Hobbs and Norton, 2011, p.34).
The main objective of the monetary framework given by AASB is to promote the management
of the firms in the preparation and demonstration of the monetary statements.
It also assists the auditors of the firms in inspecting the monetary statement of the
organization prepared as per the financial standards provided by AASB. It helps the assessor to
give a judgment whether the monetary statement has been organized as per the monetary
standard or not.
Lastly, It gives a detailed guidance which helps the stakeholders to infer the accounting
statements, the figures contained in it and to confirm whether the monetary statements of the
Australian organizations is ready in conformity with Australian Auditing Standards.
The major motive for refining a conceptual framework is to establish new accounting
standards. Apart from being a theoretical framework, it is the principal basis for solving
accounting differences(Hobbs and Norton, 2011, p.80). A conceptual framework is all about
setting a level of monetary accounting. The ultimate idea of conceptual framework compacts
with critical economic reporting issues.
Disadvantages of Conceptual Accounting Frameworks

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The necessity for a conceptual framework has advanced from the outcome of the
weakness in accounting and defective setting practice. Individual powers in the standard setting
procedure can render the entire process faulty (Vigneron and Johnson, 2013, p.112).Conceptual
accounting frameworks come with a lot of rigidity. Some characteristics of conceptual
accounting framework may not offer much control to accounting. The beginning of the
conceptual framework is inflexible; integrating new ideas into it is very difficult.
There is constant conflict between earlier established accounting guidelines and
conceptual framework. Other preceding established standards at times contrast from the basic
ideologies of the conceptual framework.
The prospect that a conceptual framework offers may have advantages for only some few users.
The framework cannot be workable or satisfactory to all parties.
Accounting Framework
Theoretical Accounting Outlines were established in quite a number of states. Australia
specifically implemented the Australian Accounting Standard Board (AASB) outline actively
from the year 2005 (Vigneron and Johnson, 2013, p.130).
The score of development was significantly slow for advancement in theoretical outline in
Australia. Four SAC (Statements of Accounting Concepts) were unconfined in the starting.
These notions were:
SAC 1: Defining the reporting entity
2: providing aims of the Financial Reporting

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3: Outlining the qualitative features of Monetary Data.
4: Defining and recognizing the elements of monetary Statements.
This report addresses the practical failure of the AASB Conceptual Framework. It
advocates that the causes of problems faced by the organizations are because the Conceptual
Framework was elaborated around extremely problematic notion of the connection between
monetary accounting and economic genuineness (Chao et al, 2011, p.150).The Conceptual
Framework involved a process of dull reasoning centered on an incorrigible intention of society,
whose existing social reality was against it. This research pulls anthropology to indicate that this
postulation of a concrete, the impartial social reality is an outcome of daily perceptive such as
that of the AASB members.
A number of key consequences follow which range beyond Conceptual Frameworks and
monetary accounting practices. These repercussions tell the vital culture and value-dependency
of sense, cognitive and rationality, and have attendant implications for the impending role of
financial researchers in swaying society rather than merely working on legitimizing and a
facsimile of the status quo (Vigneron and Johnson, 2013, p.122). When Conceptual framework
appeared through the Statement of Accounting Concept 4, it disrupted many firms on the
principles it outlined and adopted .The principles adopted included:
Properties and Burdens
The CF ruined the new ground in a huge way when SAC 4,”Elements of Monetary
Statements” adopted the strength and burden philosophy that puts an organization’s assets and
liabilities in the forefront among the monetary account rudiments. (Chao et al, 2011, p.191).

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They were well-distinct first with the explanations of income rudiments then spoken in relation
to variations in assets and liabilities. The AASB incorporated this precedence to associate
attested revenue straight to the definite events regarding actual things. It was fairly altered from
the old-style correspondent, which puts incomes in the critical situation, straggled by
expenditures and then demotes assets and liabilities to be last on debit and credit balances on the
balance sheet. Under this model, devaluation is dignified as actual variation in real assets.
The AASB, therefore, should uphold the greater worth of statements which are based on
observable events in the economy and not the hypothetically presented ones. The latter produces
progress in the direction of considerably more complete and reliable facts (Meyer and Land,
2015, p. 165).
The redefinition of liabilities
Another AASB reasonable structure deficiency is the way it characterized its liabilities in
reference to the SAC 4 as it didn't thwart for the fame development utilizing the equivalent based
imitative apparatuses to make commitments (Pintrich, 2014, p.181). The definition could be
returned to join all the call alternatives since they commit an association to circulate shares at a
markdown. It ought to have additionally incorporated a few different game plans that in a similar
way commit the association to appropriate variable measure of its offers at foreordained
expenses or in light of effectively settled conditions.
Gathering these instruments as value mistakenly disregarded the basic certainty that they
yet don't invest their proprietors with vital possession rights to rewards and voting ability. They
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their proprietors which in the call alternatives case fundamentally don't occur unless being
worked out upon (Vigneron, and Johnson, 2013, p.142).
Valuable data is in this manner muted when these apparatuses are accounted for
(Vigneron and Johnson, 2013, p.172). Its standard would have included other than the liabilities,
every one of the commitments to convey value where the basic is the responsive association's
own securities. In spite of the way that their costs may not be known with sureness, the firm will
be obliged to make a financial relinquish in prospect in view of what happened already.
Lobbying introduction
It’s clear that most of the changes enacted in the AASB conceptual framework based
under the SCA 4 were in favor of few individuals’. The AASB integrity was highly
compromised to pass some standards which could operate in benefit of an interest group. Since
the benefits were enjoyed by while the other owners of the organizations suffered. The latter did
not significantly impact the economy at large hence no fruitful results as long as those passed
standards are concerned (Hobbs and Norton, 2011, p.86).
The AASB standard setters could have consulted the business fraternity before taking the step
of approving the standards which they were very sure it was out of few rich people who were
acting out of their greed and benefit and not putting into consideration the latter consequences
out of their actions (Hobbs and Norton, 2011, p.99).
Innovation limitations
Change is always inevitable in the business and economy. But some of the standards
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standards meant that some necessary innovations could not be implemented (Cavagnoli, 2011,
p.176). This at long run made the businesses to just remain stagnant. The flexibility of the
standards could have been adjusted so that it would allow new ideas to be put into action and the
end results in economic growth would be highly noticeable (Hu, Ching and Chao, 2012).
Expenses redefinition
The AASB's battle about communicating the investment opportunities was stretched out
to some degree following the applied bookkeeping structure. The overarching definition says a
cost ought to include the diminishing in resources or an upsurge in liabilities, yet the AASB did
not expect events in which associations may pay for merchandise and ventures by giving value
instruments (Hines, 2011, p.119).
This definition could have been changed to incorporate the offer based installments
(Williams et al,2014,p.97) therefore this would have given the standard setters more assets to
oppose adversaries who made utilization of the discarded figure of value to overcome their
contentions that alternatives don't make costs.
Costs and Benefits
The AASB would have abandoned the frayed notion that stated that only those who
prepared the accounts would incur the costs of reporting and the users get the benefits. This was
not true and has never been in the past (Baccarini, 2012, p.109).The reporting costs are borne by
entity owners who are among the report’s primary users. In addition, the managers do benefit
greatly from better public information that makes capital markets establish efficient security
prices that reflect the real risks (Cuthill, 2011, p.151).

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There was no reason for people to believe that markets responded to inferior public
information by bidding the prices higher and accepting the returns too low for their risks.
Contrary, the only feedback to incomplete and untrustworthy monetary reports is the low-
security value of goods and very high capital costs (Cuthill, 2011, p.111).
The AASB would have articulated the fact that executive policies were intended to
reduce the preparation costs and diminish facts quality leading to higher facts-gathering and
processing costs. The economical exercise of recording bare minimum only was much more
costly compared to reporting what the executive already knows.
If the users wish to know the assets market values which were not disclosed by the
executive, then all of them must make the decisions based on the uncertainties or go through
their own estimation process. Adding to the aggregate cost was the fact that user personal
generated data had questionable reliability and limited capability to lower uncertainty. If that was
the case then they demanded higher returns which in turn increased the organization's cost of
capital (Cavagnoli, 2011, p.123).
Conclusion
Based on the above discussion, it can be assumed that Theoretical Outline brings about
minor significant necessities for monetary accounting. It delivers numerous inadequacies to
stakeholders of fiscal bookkeeping such as administration, the final customers, and corporations.
There are some slight rewards associated with Theoretical Outline though but those are beaten by
the vast drawbacks which came as a result of having a Theoretical Outline for Fiscal Accounting
in Australia. Therefore putting into consideration all the facts, we can concede with the

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proclamation made by Cavagnoli and others about Conceptual Framework, I don’t contemplate
the fact that Conceptual Frameworks are actually necessary for an economy as valid.
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