is to prepare financial information for internal and external users. Accounting standards play a key role in financial reporting and help users to make informed decisions. Levitt (1998) highlighted the importance of accounting standards as ‘educated investors need relevant, useful information to make their investment decisions’ and he emphasises that this can be achieved by high quality accounting standards. Up to 1970s, there was no uniform system for the preparation of financial statements and
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global accounting standards. In doing so, financial reporting will be leveled, and international transactions as well as investors can assure their decisions and provide statements under fair value measurement. The collaboration of FASB and IASB, will be one of the most important changes in financial reporting to take place in years; best of both worlds as I would like to call it. The convergence of US GAAP to IFRS will bring have a major impact in our financial system. Accountants and regulatory bodies
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Praxis, 58 (4), 2006. We thank Karsten Detert for some of the data used in this study. Applying IFRS in Germany – Determinants and Consequences Abstract: We address three research questions motivated by the recent ascent of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Europe. First, analyzing the determinants of voluntary IFRS adoption by publicly traded German firms during the period 19982004, we find that size, international exposure, dispersion of ownership, and recent IPOs are important
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IFRS, International Financial Reporting Standards, are a set of accounting guidelines and standards just like the GAAP (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, 2012). This is the first thing that Marie Claveau needs to understand, since the firms will be expecting people who can help in the adoption of the new international accounting standards. The standards were established by the international accounting standards board to become the globally accepted standards for use in the preparation
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IFRS as their main accounting standard system. IFRS has the potential to facilitate cross-border comparability, increase reporting transparency, decrease information costs, reduce information asymmetry and thereby increase the liquidity, competition and efficiency of markets (Choi & Meek, 2005). * By adopting the IFRS, the country's businesses would be presenting financial statements on the same foundation that foreign companies would. This would make comparison between global competition much
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CHAPTER 2: REGULATION IN FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING Chapter 2 regulation in Financial accounting LEARNING OUTCOMES Upon completion of this chapter you should be able to understand: • The difference between management and financial accounting. • Why accounting regulations are important and required. • The need for and the structure of professional regulation, company law, stock exchange legislation and EU Directives. • How the different aspects of regulation work together
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Introduction: Recently almost every corporation has investments in foreign country. Due to the quick growth in cross-country investments, the demand for internationally comparable financial information increased significantly. As a result we witnessed many countries that have adopted International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in replace of their global General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), or at least have permitted IFRS. European Union is one important example of twenty eight countries
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characteristics identified in the New Zealand Framework are ‘relevance’ and ‘faithful representation’. Relevance is a fundamental qualitative characteristic of financial reporting. Under the IASB Conceptual Framework, information is regarded as relevant if it is considered capable of making a difference to a decision being made by users of the financial statements. There are two main aspects to relevance. For information to be relevant it should have both predictive value and confirmatory value (or feedback
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International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) MBA 691: Managerial Accounting Professor: Prepared by: April 19, 2009 Bibliography: • Ernst & Young, “U.S. GAAP vs. IFRS: The basics”, January 2009. • Securities & Exchange Commission, “Roadmap for the Potential Use of Financial Statements Prepared in Accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards by U.S. Issuers”, www.sec.gov/spotlight/ifrsroadmap.htm (Release No. 33-8982;
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presentation are on his own and do not necessarily represent official position of the financial accounting standard board. Official position of the FASB Board is arrived at only after extensive due process and deliberations. In class, we learned that the conceptual framework is making up with objective, qualitative characteristics, constraints; elements, recognition measurement and disclosure concepts, and financial statement elements which are provide guidance to standard setting. In our text book
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