Companies must follow generally accepted accounting principles (gaap) for international financial reporting standards accounting reports
What are international financial reporting standards ?
- The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are a group of accounting guidelines that specify which kinds of transactions and events must be disclosed in financial statements.
- The International Accounting Standards Board created and maintains them (IASB).
- The IASB wants the rules to be implemented consistently across the world so that investors and other users of financial statements may compare the financial performance of publicly traded firms with that of their worldwide peers on an equal footing.
- More than 100 nations, including the European Union and more than two-thirds of the G20, currently utilize IFRS.
- International Accounting Standards (IAS), which were more traditional standards that IFRS superseded in 2000, are occasionally mistaken with IFRS.
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