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The Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council then voiced its concerns due to the increase of financial reporting guidance from the old U.S. GAAP standards, and the FASB responded by launching a new project to codify the standards. The project was approved in September 2004 by the Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation. [2]
The interpretation numbers come from the Financial Accounting Board's Original Pronouncements as amended 2008/2009 Edition, volume 3. Also, consult this volume for detailed listing of amendments, deletions, and other changes to the individual interpretations prior to 2009 (when the Accounting Standards Codification was issued.)
In 2009, the Codification superseded the FASB's Statements of Financial Accounting Standards. 168 standards had been issued before the Codification. Concepts Statements , first issued in 1978. They are part of the FASB's conceptual framework project and set forth fundamental objectives and concepts that the FASB use in developing future standards.
] U.S. accounting firms are opposed to convergence because of the familiarity of GAAP, the unfamiliarity with international accounting principles, and other countries' accounting systems. U.S. firms and other CPAs have been reluctant to adapt and learn a new accounting system, and believe that IFRS lacks guidance compared to the GAAP.
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.
Codification (law), the process of preparing and enacting a legal code; Codification (linguistics), the process of selecting, developing and prescribing a model for standard language usage; Accounting Standards Codification, the collection of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles produced by the Financial Accounting Standards Board
Accounting and Financial Reporting for Certain Investments and for External Investment Pools: Mar. 1997: Amended by various GASBS; 32. Accounting and Financial Reporting for Internal Revenue Code Section 457 Deferred Compensation Plans—a recission of GASB Statement No. 2 and an amendment of GASB Statement No. 31: Oct. 1997: Superseded by GASB ...
Accounting research is carried out both by academic researchers and by practicing accountants.Academic accounting research addresses all areas of the accounting profession, and examines issues using the scientific method; it uses evidence from a wide variety of sources, including financial information, experiments, computer simulations, interviews, surveys, historical records, and ethnography.