Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Since 1973, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has been the designated organizations in the private sector for establishing standards of financial accounting that govern the preparation of financial reports by nongovernmental organizations. Those standards are officially recognized as authoritative by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. MISSION The mission of the FASB is to establish and
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The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) was formed in an attempt to bring uniform accounting standards within international countries through its issuing of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Today, over 100 countries including Canada, India, and Japan have adopted these standards for financial reporting. The growth of multinational companies such as Coca Cola and the increasing desire of cross-border investing have made it apparent that the U.S.accounting standards
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accounting practice. These include the rules that accountants follow in recording, summarizing and preparation of financial statements. Steps taken by FASB and IASB to move to fair value measurements for financial instruments and the ways their approaches differ The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) have issued new guidance on fair value measurement and disclosure requirements for IFRS and GAAP. This guidance completes a major project of the
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1A. Benefits that SEC believes will result from global accounting standardization through convergence: The SEC encourages the convergence of IFRS and GAAP because it believes that doing so will benefit U.S investors. The incorporation of IFRS in GAAP will protect the investors, maintain the fair representation of financial statements and increase comparability and material information for investors to make better decisions. The primary benefit will be the reduction in discrepancies in financial
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report in accounting standards for many different countries. Investors and creditors also need to know the difference between standards when analyzing financial reports for comparability and consistency. The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) is an international body based in London, England that was designed to combat this problem by creating a single set of global accounting standards, called the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). They are a high-quality, understandable
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(i.e. relevance and faithful representation) and the enhancing qualitative characteristics (i.e. understandability, comparability, verifiability and timeliness) as defined in ‘An improved Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting’ of the FASB and the IASB (2008). The operationalization of these qualitative characteristics results in a 21-item index. Using 231 annual reports from companies listed at US, UK, and Dutch stock markets in 2005 and 2007, we test our compound measurement tool on internal
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(Team, 2015). Conceptual framework is essential for principle-based standards because it lays out a fundamental structure for principles-based standards. Setting the standard on and relate to an established body of concepts and objectives, enable FASB and IASB to “issue more useful and consistent standards over time” (Essays, 2013). For any future developments or armaments on the standards, the framework will ensure the changes will be within its fundamental concepts and will not get to a personal or
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Accounting regulation The Learning Objectives for this lecture: Regulatory framework Role of a conceptual framework Current state of play of conceptual framework for international standards Different approaches to accounting regulation •Free-market approach EMH Agency theory •Regulatory approach market mechanisms will not be able to achieve a socially optimal equilibrium price for accounting information Theory of efficient markets • The forces of supply and demand influence market
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Ma Dr. Hassan R. HassabElnaby ACCT 6190-001 Sep. 6, 2015 FASB Proposes to Clarify Revenue Recognition Standard By Michael Cohn on August 31, 2015 After the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) published a draft proposing changes in Revenue Recognition Standard on July 30, 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has also issued a similar proposed accounting standards update
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Dennis Business School Oxford Brookes University Abstract The paper examines the nature and role of a conceptual framework for financial reporting. Although much has been written about such frameworks and their purported role and the FASB and IASB are currently revising and converging their frameworks there are still questions about the kind of thing it is and how it is used in setting accounting standards. Using insights from the philosophical literature this paper considers the nature
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