Intermediate Accounting 14th Edition

Published by Wiley
ISBN 10: 0470587237
ISBN 13: 978-0-47058-723-2

Chapter 1 - Financial Accounting and Accounting Standards - Questions - Page 24: 21

Answer

The difference between codification and the codification research system is that codification compiles and integrates all Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) into a whole without creating a new GAAP. On the other hand, the research system is a database that grants access to the codification.

Work Step by Step

In codification, the FASB had three goals. The first involved simplifying user access by codifying all authoritative GAAP into one. The second was to ascertain that codified content correctly represented U.S. GAAP. Creating a codified research system was the third goal.
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