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The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) is the independent accounting standard-setting body of the IFRS Foundation. The IASB was founded on April 1, 2001, as the successor to the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC). [ 1 ]
The IASB has continued to develop standards calling the new standards "International Financial Reporting Standards" (IFRS). [ 4 ] In 2002, the European Union (EU) agreed that, from 1 January 2005, International Financial Reporting Standards would apply for the consolidated accounts of the EU listed companies, bringing about the introduction of ...
Over time, standards were amended or replaced. When the IASC was replaced by the IASB, 34 standards were still extant and adopted by the IASB. The original aim of the IASC was to issue 'basic' standards. [7] In practice, this meant that the standards often reflected common, rather than best practices in the board member countries.
This is a list of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and official interpretations, as set out by the IFRS Foundation.It includes accounting standards either developed or adopted by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), the standard-setting body of the IFRS Foundation.
IFRS 9 began as a joint project between IASB and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which promulgates accounting standards in the United States. The boards published a joint discussion paper in March 2008 proposing an eventual goal of reporting all financial instruments at fair value, with all changes in fair value reported in net income (FASB) or profit and loss (IASB). [1]
The IASB is an independent group of experts with an appropriate mix of recent practical experience and broad geographical diversity, as required by the IFRS Foundation Constitution. [4] IASB members are responsible for the development and publication of IFRS Accounting Standards, including the IFRS for SMEs Accounting Standard. The IASB works ...
The IASC was reconstituted into the IASB in 2001, [2] and the FASB and IASB began working towards convergence in 2002, [1] expressing their commitment to convergence in the Norwalk agreement and pledging to make their respective standards "compatible as soon as is practicable" and to maintain compatibility by coordinating future programs. [3]
On 26 June 2019, the IASB released an exposure draft proposing several amendments. [13] Comments on the amendments were open for three months, closing on 25 September 2019. In total, 123 submissions were received. [14] In June 2020 the IASB adopted the final set of amendments and deferred the effective date of the standard to January 1, 2023. [3]