Which of the following is NOT a typical attribute of an audit committee?
A) Audit committees are being used more and more throughout the world.
B) The audit committee is employed by the external auditors.
C) Audit committees are comprised solely of outside board members.
D) Audit committees act as a liaison among the full board of directors, internal auditors,
external auditors, and management.
E) The audit committee oversees the internal accounting controls, financial statements
and financial affairs of a corporation.
R&D costs are expensed in the period that they occur,
A) which is a violation of the matching principle.
B) because FASB determined that the benefits of R&D are often harder to pinpoint than
the costs.
C) because is was the only way FASB could get verifiability.
D) because IASB lobbied FASB to do so.
E) because the U.S. Congress passed a law on it.