Is the Difference in Accounting Treatment of Post-Retirement Benefits under IFRS Beneficial or Detrimental to the Financial Position of a Company Currently Reporting Under US GAAP? Megan N. Cook‚ CPA‚ CFE Accountancy 521 Professor Lawrence March 9‚ 2009 The first pension plan offered by an American employer was that of American Express in the year 1875. Amex’s plan did not resemble the plans that we see in today’s time; the first “modern” defined benefit plan was created
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Project Assignment (IFRS 10) Cheong Wang Shen Gordon Prepared for: Prof Bernardine Low Prepared by: Gordon Cheong Wang Shen Jason Tan Zhu En Twain Teo Wei Ren Wee Huixiang (G4) Table of Contents Question 1: IFRS 10 flowchart 3 Question 2 5 (a) Identifying ambiguity of control 5 Background 5 Control issues 5 Co-owning of subsidiaries 5 Inter-company director relations 6 Same platform manufacturing 6 (b) & (c) Application of IFRS 10 flowchart to determine
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first-time adoption of IFRS Course: Corporate valuation Authors: Hanlin Wang David Řeha Jin Zhang Joy Nguyen On Wednesday‚ February 24‚ 2010 the SEC reiterated its support for International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)‚ this was conditional upon the accomplishment of a number of milestones. The SEC staff had developed a comprehensive work plan that would help to keep the process moving forward. Including Fiat‚more and more huge cooperations are adopting IFRS accounting policies
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OVERVIEW Accounting is the language of business. As such‚ accountants collect and communicate economic information about business enterprises or other entities to a wide variety of persons. To be useful‚ financial statements must be clearly understandable and comparable so that users may compare the performance of one business with the performance of the same business for a prior period or with the performance of another similar business. Therefore‚ all general purpose financial statements should
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Differences A comparison of IFRS and US GAAP October 2007 PricewaterhouseCoopers’ IFRS and corporate governance publications and tools 2007 IFRS technical publications IFRS Manual of Accounting 2008 Provides expert practical guidance on how groups should prepare their consolidated financial statements in accordance with IFRS. Comprehensive publication including hundreds of worked examples‚ extracts from company reports and model financial statements. IFRS News Monthly newsletter focusing
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Report: Where does the US stand on the adoption of IFRS? - 2012 Abstract The globalization of markets over the past 50 years has led to the demand for increasingly comparable financial statements across countries. In response to this demand‚ the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) was formed with the purpose of developing a set of high quality global accounting standards. Although a majority of developed markets have adopted the international standards‚ the United States has not.
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S.GAAP to IFRS Nara Yoon Charles Center Summer 2009 2 Advantages and Disadvantages of switching from U.S.GAAP to IFRS 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.
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IFRS vs GAAP – Equity Accounts In discussing Equity Accounting standards of GAAP and IFRS we specifically look at Stockholders’ equity in regard to corporations. Of course there are many differences in language; however‚ we will review some major differences in accounting standards with respect to Equity accounts. There is a glaring difference in the two methods with regards to Distributions to Owners. Under US GAAP‚ disregarding dividends paid on unallocated shares (Employee Stock Ownership
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Standards (IFRS) (Squadroni‚ 2010). Today majority of countries in the world follow International Financial Reporting Standards guidelines; however‚ the United States still uses Generally Accepted Accounting Principals. There have been discussions to adopt IFRS fully in the near future. The United States accounting system will undergo drastic changes in 2010 when this occurs. There are many similarities between US GAAP and IFRS but I will be discussing the costing methods for GAAP‚ IFRS and the differences
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value accounting in IFRS financial statements Considerable attention is currentiy being given to the use of fair vaiues and fair value accounting in financiai statements prepared under internationai Financiai Reporting Standards. This month’s coiumn ciarifies what is meant by fair value accounting and when iFRS require or allow its use. It also identifies the circumstances in which IFRS requires the use of fair value in the application of the historical cost model. In IFRS financial statements
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