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IFRS financial statements consist of: [26] a statement of financial position (balance sheet) a statement of comprehensive income. This may be presented as a single statement or with a separate statement of profit and loss and a statement of other comprehensive income; a statement of changes in equity; a statement of cash flows
In 2006, the FASB began working with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to reduce or eliminate the differences between U.S. GAAP and the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), known as the IASB-FASB convergence project. [15] The scope of the overall IASB-FASB convergence project has evolved over time.
Segment reporting: a new standard, IFRS 8 Segment Reporting, was issued in 2006. Fair value option: US GAAP was amended to include the fair value option in 2007. Joint ventures: IFRS 11 Joint Arrangements was issued in 2011. Income tax: A joint exposure draft was published in 2009. [13]
The recording of the liability in the entity's balance sheet is matched to an appropriate expense account on the entity's income statement. In U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP), a provision is an expense. Thus, "Provision for Income Taxes" is an expense in U.S. GAAP but a liability in IFRS.
No items may be presented in the income statement as extraordinary items under IFRS regulations or (as of ASU No. 2015-01 [7]) under US GAAP. Extraordinary items are both unusual (abnormal) and infrequent, for example, unexpected natural disaster, expropriation, prohibitions under new regulations.
A major difference between US GAAP and IFRS is the fact that three fundamentally different concepts of capital and capital maintenance are authorized in IFRS while US GAAP only authorize two capital and capital maintenance concepts during low inflation and deflation: (1) physical capital maintenance and (2) financial capital maintenance in ...
Costs recorded in the Income Statement are based on the historical cost of items sold or used, rather than their replacement costs. For example, a company acquires an asset in year 1 for $100; the asset is still held at the end of year 1, when its market value is $120; the company sells the asset in year 2 for $115
In 2010, the SEC instructed the staff to create and implement a work plan that addresses whether, when and how U.S. GAAP should be merged into a global reporting model developed by International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)—the standards setting body designated by the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).