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Despite those enormous advantages, it has been argued that IFRSS adoption lead to significant costs. The main argument is that IFRSs do not consider local needs and priorities as every country has their own ‘business environment, legal systems, cultures, language and political environment’ (Henderson and Peirson, 2000 cited from Malthus, S., 2004). However, to overcome this problem, IASB can accommodate flexible reporting standards that enable companies to choose alternatives that are more suitable for their external condition. It is opinion of some opponents of IFRS adoption that IAS is ‘insufficiently detailed’ (Uddin,M.S., 2005, p.4) that require accountants’ and auditor’ professional judgment. However, overly detail might be contra productive and not flexible in anticipating every changes and differences.

As the business environment grows and companies find new ways to expand into their respective - or even new – markets, it is important that reporting standards stay up to date with changes and continue to assist companies in providing their users with useful accounting information. Information is labelled as being useful when it meets the

Our aim in this paper is to analyse and justify the facts that support and object the main issue of whether the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards have in fact increased Financial Reporting Quality.

Ankarath, N., Ghosh, T.P., Alkafaji, Y. A., & Mehta, K. J. (2010). Understanding IFRS Fundamentals: International Financial Reporting Standards.

This report has been compiled for the Chief Accountant of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC). Its aim is to provide an analysis of how international financial reporting standards (IFRS) have improved reporting quality. This report found that there has been a recent move to using these standards as a blanket standard in most Western countries as the need for consistency in financial reporting is obvious in a more globalised world.

Accounting Information is the pearl of any organization. It is how a business provides its investors as well as other stakeholder parties’ direction towards a healthy economic decision in favor of the business. Regulation of these information and standardizing the process would lead to that organization solving the problem of ‘information asymmetry’. (Watts & Zimmerman, 1978)

Topic: How social and environmental reporting practices undertaken by companies highlight the limitations of the conceptual framework.

In the 1970’s there was an increase in discussions about unifying reporting procedures. With the increase of business dealings between companies in different countries the experts started to ask the question: “Why can’t we agree on a single reporting practice”? Now, logic would have it that anyone looking to invest in a company or do business with a company in another country should be able to look at their financial reports and make a sound decision. The problem arises when a company in the US is examining a company in Germany and the American company is unable to make a confident assessment of the financial standings of the company in Germany due to the dissimilarity in the financial records. The lack of transparency (and possible inaccuracies) suggests that it

Financial Reporting Council: The Use of a Sector Neutral Framework for the Making of Australian Accounting Standards

In addition, a number of new business practices had developed that were not contemplated at the time of the original paper. Finally, several surveys of our members highlighted serious deficiencies in the financial reporting framework, problems that hampered their ability to analyze companies and make wellinformed financial decisions. Consequently, those CFA Institute staff and volunteer members who have the responsibility of advocating for high-quality financial reporting thought that the time had arrived for the views in the white paper to be refreshed and extended to better reflect the changed circumstances. Once the work was underway, however, the project scope was expanded to consider both conceptual issues as well as revisions to financial statement display—that is, the business reporting model in its entirety. A special group of CFA Institute volunteer members was assembled—the Business Reporting Subcommittee—and tasked with developing the new paper. The Subcommittee comprised a subset of members from two existing standing CFA Institute committees: (1) the Global Financial Reporting Advocacy Committee (GFRAC), which was responsible for addressing proposals of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), and (2) the Financial Accounting Policy Committee (FAPC), which had similar responsibilities for proposals of the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). The Subcommittee held extensive discussions over the next

The push for company reporting to include CSR related information in annual reports is of utmost importance, given the prominence of corporate influence in today’s society. The recommendation to implement triple bottom line reporting would increase the extent to which companies are taking responsibility for the consequences of their actions, in relation to corporate activities that touch on environmental or other issues of community concern13

Introduction: As of 2005, companies that are listed in the London Stock Exchange are required to prepare consolidated financial statements with IFRS. The qualitative characteristics of IFRS are understandable, relevant, reliable, and comparable. There are five reporting elements to IFRS which are; assets, liabilities, equity, income that includes revenue and gains, and expenses that include losses (IASplus). This paper will discuss the accounting policies and the financial reporting process of a publicly traded company. The reporting objectives, financial statement impact, and disclosure requirements will also be researched. The annual report

It is incontestable that international financial reporting standards (IFRS) are in vogue and global conformity theoretically on the doorstep as about 100 countries implement standard financial regulations. The idea that uniform reporting standards have the same effect on financial reporting undervalues the contested ability to be flexible in financial reporting and introduces another level of debate on the issue of flexibility and uniformity. Apart from the fact that the merits of flexibility are downplayed to increase cross-sectional and inter-temporal comparison, prescribed reporting standards compliance is itself not enough basis to claim that financial reporting. The IFRS comprises of principle-based standards that have presents financial report manager with the opportunity to increase flexibility on their part and possible manipulation (Benston, 2006). Consequently, the fact brings another issue into question, for instance, the reliability and transparency of information produced under professional discretion and judgment of managers. This paper seeks to indicate that there are too many current financial reporting issues that are not yet conclusively included in the crusade for the adoption of uniform financial reporting standards on the notion that uniform standards improve the quality of financial reporting regarding comparability.

Good company reporting is absolutely necessary and vital as it provides valuable information to its shareholders, creditors and other stakeholder groups who may have the interest in knowing the position of the companies and their activities. It is equally important to maintain an equilibrium or balance between the cost of collecting and publishing the information and the cost of finding the information by the respective readers. It does not necessarily mean that adding bulks of information make the report a good one. It is the quality of information that counts. Government is highly dedicated to affirm that reports maintain a certain degree of quality rather than large and unwieldy information. Trade and Industry

The primary requirement of integrated reporting is treat value as beyond financial terms - a non-current overdue development offer that approximates 80% of organization is typically in intangible assets. Unlikely methods of long term success that connecting firm relationships with stakeholders, building a base of loyal customers and dealing with environmental risk, etc., integrated reporting keeps analyzing non-current strategy and predicting documents, including strategy, the environment in which it would deliver and how the organization has and will. The International Integrated Reporting Framework acknowledges that