ICBI 2015
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Item Role of Facebook: A Review(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Padmasiri, M.K.D.; Kawshalya, P.This study is a literature review regarding the role of Facebook in teaching, marketing and relationship management. The literature identifies various roles are playing in todays globalized world. As literature declares Facebook plays roles in various fields such as, marketing, online games, education, teaching, romantic relationship management, managing relationship among friends, and stakeholder engagement. The current study limits its investigation in to selected roles of Facebook due to develop a narrow scope for this review. Hence selected roles of Facebook are academic teaching, marketing and romantic relationship management. One finding of the Bullock, 2011, is using blogging tools to further develop relationships with undergraduate and graduate students and engage them in meaningful discussions outside of class time. According to the studies of Beukeboom, 2011, Facebook plays a major role in romantic relationship management which creates emotional outcomes as relationship satisfaction and trait jealousy. Scolbe, 2006 argues that network is important in changing the way of business talk with customer and Bonsón, 2013 and Dholakia, 2010 indicates that Facebook plays a role as a communication channel in marketing at business level. Among them researchers have identifies FB plays an important role in connecting the social networks but to develop the scope to this study selected roles of FB are, FB in academic teaching, FB in marketing, FB in romantic relationship and FB in online games. Based on the discussion, it can be concluded that Facebook plays an important role in various fields.Item Income recognition of a loan with increasing rentals (Stepping up Loans): A case study on a selected Sri Lankan company(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Kawshalya, P.; Perera, P.In consequence to introduction of Sri Lanka Accounting Standards (SLFRS and LKAS) compatible with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka with effect from 1st January 2012, The Company being a registered finance company with public accountability, is required to apply provisions of the full set of accounting standards and in the preparation of the financial statements in compatible with these new accounting standards, company has encountered numerous issues regarding the deviations from the requirements of the accounting standards. Out of them, this case study discuses in detailed one of the main issues that was identified during the preparation of financial statements of this company. This company provides range of different types of loans to its customers and among them it was identified a loan category with a specific feature. This loan type is called as “Stepping Up” loans and the special feature in this loan is its monthly installment changes (increases) in every 12 months. Therefore the monthly installments in first few years are relatively lower than the monthly installments of the final years of the loan agreement. In the interest income recognition of these types of loans company has encountered a problem because Sri Lanka Accounting Standard (LKAS) 39 – ‘Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement’ requires recognizing the interest income of loans using effective interest method where in the first two years of the loan agreements the monthly rental is not even enough to recover the interest of these loans which is calculated using effective interest method.