ACCOUNTING FOR STOCKS: INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE AND DOMESTIC EXPERIENCE

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  • Z. D. OVCHARYK

Abstract

Reserves are an important accounting and economic category and subject of accounting, occupy an important place in current assets and participate in shaping the final product of the company and included in the value of its equity. The basic condition of economic activity of agricultural enterprises is sufficient and rational use of inventory, from which they operate, ensuring further development of social economic relations.

The article aims to study the characteristics of accounting reserves in foreign countries and comparisons with Ukrainian practice.

Constant changes current legislation of Ukraine, conditions of capital, increasing demands of users of information, transformation of national accounting in accordance with international standards determine the objective necessity of deepening the study of inventory accounting in agricultural enterprises.

In the article the reserves in foreign accounting practice are examined. Different perspectives on the concept of «reserves» and choice of the assessment method are shown. Comparison of foreign reserves accounting practices with the national experience in Ukraine is carried out.

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No. 260 (2017): (англ)

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