Impact of LIFO Accounting When discussing IFRS vs. GAAP regarding inventory, LIFO Accounting is one of the most controversial topics. Although LIFO is hardly used globally, it is heavily used in the United States. A shift from LIFO would have a significant effect on US companies specifically because tax law requires any company that uses LIFO for tax purposes to also use it for book accounting according to Internal Revenue Code (IRC) §472(c). Since IFRS disallows LIFO Accounting, US companies will
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2011 fiscal year was €2.08. This was found in AF’s consolidated income statement. A3. As stated in note 3.1.1 the accounting principles that were used to prepare AF’s financial statements were International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Commissions. Under those accounting principles AF’s financial information would differ in certain respects from the IFRS as published by the IASB. The Group has, however, determined that the financial information for the periods presented
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of risk that the firm XYZ faces with the expansion abroad. These are the accounting exposure, transaction exposure and the operating exposure. Accounting exposure, is defined as the exposure that a company faces due to the reduction of its value; as a result of foreign exchange differences between the currency used in the main branch and the currency used in the other country (Gertler, Kiyotaki and Queralto, 2012). Accounting exposure is also referenced as translation exposure. The item most affected
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human resource representative is responsible for hiring, and training employees. The accountant’s role is to ensure that the company has sufficient amount of working capital. He prepares the profit and loss statement and monthly closing and cost accounting reports. Inventory control would be a part of the general manager and the accountant’s responsibility. Our company is still growing and once it stabilizes, then we can create more departments and hire more employees. Our marketing agent’s job is
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of the top airlines. British Airways uses IFRS to value its inventory. IFRS stands for International Financial Reporting Standards. My thinking is that British Airways utilizes this method so that their financial reports can be understood and can be compared when considering international boundaries. U.S. GAAP is actually based more on specific rules whereas IFRS can be based on more broad principles. Another reason that British Airways may utilize IFRS is because the company has a little bit more
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Convergence of Accounting Standards | ACC 304 | | Nicole McKinney | 2/27/2013 | The word convergence refers to the process of eliminating differences in accounting standards among countries. The phrase international convergence of accounting standards refers to both a goal and the path taken to reach it. Convergence is driven by several factors, including the belief that having a single set of accounting requirements would increase the comparability of different entities' accounting numbers
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a system that gives true and fair view of accounting reports. These consistencies in reports are intended to provide easier reports to stakeholders across the borders to measure and compare performance in international accounting reports standard. In earlier times UK accounting is providing useful information to shareholders, with a distinct from tax reporting. The implementation of IFRS has brought about significantly greater consistency in accounting recognition and measurement and far greater
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compliance with financial reporting standards. Difference Between GAAP & IFRS GAAP (FASB) | IFRS (IASB) | Under U.S GAAP firms can choose to report comprehensive income in the statement of shareholder’s equity. | Under IFRS the income statement can be combined with “other comprehensive income” & presented as a single statement of comprehensive income. Alternatively presented separately. | CHAP – 24 GAAP (FASB) | IFRS (IASB) | FASB framework includes revenue, expenses, gains, losses
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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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Accepted Accounting Principles to International Financial Reporting Standard: The Potential Change for Leasing The United States, via the US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), International Accounting Standards Board, and SEC all have begun the process to migrate from General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS). This migration has advocates for and against the change. A major change in the IFRS proposal is the accounting of leases
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