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Impact of the Revised FPC Uniform System of Accounts BY SAMUEL E. ELLIS Partner, Kansas City Office Presented before the Annual Convention of the Missouri Valley Electric Association, Kansas City — September 1960 MY SUBJECT has been announced as a talk on the "Impact of the Revised FPC Uniform System of Accounts." Because of the technical nature of the subject, however, I am taking the liberty of presenting it in the form of a paper. As a general observation, we in the public accounting profession had hoped that the revision of the system would permit utility accounting more nearly in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles but that does not appear to have happened. It is a safe assumption that all of you, or at least a majority, have been giving the proposed system a lot of thought since its announcement in 1959, with a view to determining how the revision will affect your company. Presumably everyone has made, or had available, an analysis of differences between the present and proposed system of accounts. Under these circumstances I would consider it a waste of your time and mine to point out the very many minor differences between the two systems and so shall try to confine the discussion to those points of difference that may cause difficulty in execution or that may be subject to several interpretations. POINTS OF DIFFERENCE DEFINITIONS First, the changes in definitions in the proposed and current instructions are minor and do not appear to raise any problems. The only completely new definition relates to Item 30 dealing with "service life" and there is little room for disagreement with the proposed definition. INSTRUCTIONS The second section of the proposed system deals with general instructions. Changes have been made in the limitations concerning 65
Object Description
Title |
Impact of the revised FPC uniform system of accounts |
Author |
Ellis, Samuel E. |
Subject |
United States. Federal Power Commission Electric utilities – Accounting |
Office/Department |
Haskins & Sells. Kansas City Office |
Citation |
Haskins & Sells Selected Papers, 1960, p. 065-075 |
Date-Issued | 1960 |
Source | Originally published by: Haskins & Sells |
Rights | Copyright and permission to republish held by: Deloitte |
Type | Text |
Format | PDF with corrected OCR scanned at 400dpi |
Collection | Deloitte Digital Collection |
Date-Digitally Created | 2009 |
Language | eng |
Identifier | h&s_sp_1960_pages_65-75 |