Accounting professionals are accustomed to complying with accounting standards. Generally accepted accounting standards set the guidelines for reporting financial transactions in the United States.

Explore the major differences between IFRS and U.S. GAAP, including inventory write-downs, intangible assets, and accounting rules, to better understand international reporting standards.

THERE IS A CLEAR TREND toward adopting IFRS as the single body of internationally accepted financial reporting standards. In the next few years, thousands of companies will move to IFRS as a primary ...

Learn about consolidated financial statements, the criteria for aggregation, reporting guidelines, and practical examples for parent companies with subsidiaries.

M any companies are in the early stages of considering what impact the transition to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) from U.S. GAAP will have on financial reporting. However, are ...

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issued IFRS 18: Presentation and Disclosure in Financial Statements in April 2024, marking the most ...

The revised IFRS Practice Statement 1 Management Commentary is a financial report accompanying the financial statements aimed at current and future investors to provide them with a better ...

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 53, No. 5 (DECEMBER 2015), pp. 915-963 (49 pages) We outline several properties of IFRS that potentially affect the contractibility or the transparency of ...

IFRS 18 and Ind AS 118 will standardise profit-and-loss presentation, redefine operating profit, and regulate management-defined performance measures. The change aims to improve transparency, ...

Not many investors are accountants, and there are many accountants who are not investors. Yet the latter produces what the former reads, and the former relies upon what the latter produces to make ...