Ifrs Of The Us And The World : Political And Economic Forces Shape Accounting

Instead, in the over-seas markets, numerous countries require IFRS for the statutory financial reporting. As the result, the multinational companies located in the US will need to have the IFRS reports for their subsidiaries located in over-seas countries.

The U.S is moving toward IFRS (Forgeas, 2008). In the near future, all US company may need to report financial statements under IFRS. This makes the adaptation of IFRS unavoidable. Recently, some large multinational

The accounting system in the US was strongly influenced by the SEC as opposed to a governmental influence. The SEC sells, exchanges and trades securities, protects investors while maintaining fair, orderly and efficient markets and ultimately facilitates capital formation (Pereira, 1992, p17). The US has the largest and one of the most important, stock exchanges in the world - the New York Stock Exchange located on Wall Street in New York City. This makes the US a huge market for investors world-wide. All investors would like to have access to certain facts about an investment before buying it and while holding it. In order to achieve this, the SEC requires all public firms and companies to disclose meaningful financial and other information to the public, to follow GAAP (SEC, 2007). Thus, any company that wishes to be a market in the SEC’s securities must register with the SEC. For those companies with foreign registrants, the SEC requires them to either report under US GAAP or to provide reconciliations to US GAAP (Nobes, p146, 2006). The SEC also requires public firms to follow GAAP in order to be audited. It is quite evident that most of American accounting is rule based, not government based. According to Nobes’ textbook, Comparative International Accounting, the commission since its inception has intended to limit the exercise of its accounting standard-setting authority to a supervisory role, permitting and encouraging the private sector, currently

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) with the objective of developing globally accepted standards establishes the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). On the other hand, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) establishes the General Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP) with the mission to improve the standards. In 2015, Hoyle, Schaefer, and Doupnik concluded, there are three key differences between the two, including recognition differences, measurement differences, and presentation and disclosure differences. Whether or not to recognize an item, how an item is recognized, or when it is recognized are the main differences regarding the recognition differences. For instance, research and development

On February 24, the SEC unanimously agreed to publish a statement of continued support for a single set of high-quality global accounting standards. The SEC acknowledged that IFRS is best positioned to be the global standard. Even without a set conversion timeline from the SEC, IFRS has been affecting

The purpose of this publication is to assist you in understanding the significant differences between International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP). This publication does not discuss every possible difference; rather, it is a summary of those differences that we have encountered most frequently in practice, resulting from either a difference in emphasis or specific

In today’s business, markets are demanding increasing conformity. Many countries have converted to and implemented the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)’s accounting standards. The United States, however, still maintains its own Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Both IASB and FASB have created International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S.GAAP) respectively. These accounting standards are rules of measurements for financial statements that companies issuing stock to the public must provide

IFRS 3-1 describe some of the issues the SEC must consider in deciding whether the United States should adopt

IFRS regulations are overriding GAAP regulations as the sanctioned reporting procedure of many countries and 283 countries have formally adopted the IASB manual to use for financial

In terms of comparability, there were major differences between the US GAAP and IFRS standards. This posed as an issue for evaluating financial performance internationally. IFRS 15 eliminates the inconsistencies created by the ‘industry –specific’ guidance of AASB118 by providing a single revenue recognition model.

To understand the intricacies of transitioning to IFRS from the U.S. GAAP one must understand what both are. The U.S. GAAP is derived from a combination of standards and principles that are the preferred practices established in the U.S. The main governing bodies of the U.S. GAAP are the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) . These two governing bodies work to ensure the standards of the U.S. GAAP are both relevant and faithfully represented (Wahlen, J. M., Jones, J. P., & Pagach, D. P. 2013).

It is becoming almost impossible to perform any professional accounting functions without being influenced by the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) due to increasing number of international businesses. It seems that IFRS may become a more significant part of America’s financial reporting environment. However, today the public and private companies in America use Generally Accepted Accounting Principle in order to prepare their financial statements, but this will be changed due to universal set of standards. Therefore, in 2008 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a roadmap for the convergence by U.S. companies to the use of IFRS (Subler, 2012). One of those companies was Meeack Corp pharmaceutical company, but after very careful utilization of the IFRS, the company is not going to be converting to the IFRS. This paper is argued three reasons why to delay the convergence from GAAP to IFRS, and the three reasons are: Fundamental differences in accounting standards, federal and state law and regulations, and possible manipulations for financial reporting.

In mainly everything, sports, class rooms, or work places you have a set of rules to go by. In the accounting world, you must also follow a set of rules and standards. The Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) or the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Most countries around the world use IFRS while the United States uses GAAP. International Financial Reporting Standards and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles do things differently. Each country’s government sets which principles the accountants will use. There are also organizations that have been formed to help with all the confusion between countries. The organizations are called Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). FASB is the organization that has been designed by the US government to establish GAAP in the United States. IASB is the international organization developing and promoting accounting standards to be used throughout the world.

The U.S Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and the International Financial Reporting Standards are the two major accounting standards used by accountants today. The GAAP is currently used only by firms in the United States, while the IFRS is used by firms in 110 countries, including those in the European Union. The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission is in charge of GAAP for public companies, while the Financial Accounting and Standard Board overlooks private companies. The standards for IFRS are set by the International Accounting Standard Board. The main difference that separates the GAAP and the IFRS is that the GAAP was constructed based on rules, while the IFRS was created based on accounting principles. Although there are many similarities in the way most things are done, there are also striking differences regarding the way financial statements are reported, including inventory valuation, balance sheets presentation, asset definition, etc. This paper seeks to identify some of the major discrepancies between GAAP and IFRS, and present arguments people have made for and against converging the two standards.

The standards by which financial statements are reported are known as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) (Finkler, Jones, & Kovner, 2013).  The United States (US) recognizes GAAP to be a set of rules used by accountants in financial reporting (Finkler et al., 2013).  The United States-GAAP (US-GAAP) were established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) (Finkler et al., 2013). The US-GAAP are primarily used in the US whereas many other countries have adopted their own general accounting standards known as the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) (Finkler, Ward, & Calabrese, 2013). The IFRS were established by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and have both similarities and differences to the US-GAAP (Finkler et al., 2013).   The purpose of GAAP are to standardize the manner in which the financial status of an organization is interpreted so financial information is useful for investors, lenders and those that an organization is accountable to or compared to (Finkler et al., 2013).