Learn how International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) create global accounting consistency, enabling transparent and comparable financial reports in 169 jurisdictions.

This free white paper, “Financial System Considerations in IFRS Conversion Projects,” is provided by the AICPA’s IT Section of the Specialized Communities/Firm Practice Management Group and includes: ...

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issued an amended version of IAS 19, Employee Benefits, that the board said completes its project to improve the accounting for pensions and other ...

Ahead of the 2012 reporting date for listed and significant public entities, Akintola Williams Deloitte has identifies responsibilities and challenges of International Financial Reporting Standards ...

Nicolas Pologeorgis has 24+ years of experience in academic consulting. He has held administrative and faculty positions in various institutions. GAAP is rules-based; IFRS is principles-based. U.S.

Accounting standard setters are seeking to revive a stalled project to allow recognition of banks' portfolio hedges in financial reporting, but the plan faces an uphill struggle to overcome the ...

Life is full of surprises – some good, and some not so good. From an accounting point of view, surprises are generally best avoided. This is not least because they skew insights about commercial ...

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