Q. Qualitative characteristics of financial reporting?
Accounting information must possess qualitative characteristics to be useful in decision making. This criterion is hard to apply. The effectiveness of accounting information in a given instance depends not merely on information characteristics but as well on the capabilities of the decision makers and their professional advisers. Accountants can't specify who the decision makers are and their characteristics and the decisions to be made or the methods chosen to make the decisions. Thus they direct their attention to the characteristics of accounting information. Reminder the FASB's graphic summarization of the qualities accountants.