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Reporting Currency - Measurement and Presentation of Financial Statements under IAS 21 and IAS 29 2000 January 1, 2001: January 1, 2005: IAS 21: SIC 20 Equity Accounting Method - Recognition of Losses 1999 July 15, 2000: January 1, 2005: IAS 28: SIC 21 Income Taxes-Recovery of Revalued Non-Depreciable Assets 1999 July 15, 2000: January 1, 2012 ...
The IAS 11 standard of International Accounting Standards set out requirements for the accounting treatment of the revenue and costs associated with long-term construction contracts. By their nature, construction activities and contracts are long-term projects, often beginning and ending in different accounting periods .
The International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) had been established in 1973 and had issued a number of standards known as International Accounting Standards (IAS). As the organization was reformed in 2001, it changed the name of the standard-setting body from IASC to IASB, and established a foundation to oversee it, initially known as ...
The standard IAS 1 also requires an additional statement of financial position (also called a third balance sheet) when an entity applies an accounting policy retrospectively or makes a retrospective restatement of items in its financial statements, or when it reclassifies items in its financial statements.
IAS 17 Accounting for Leases (1982) required the capitalization of finance leases, a practice that was as yet unusual or unknown outside the United States. [ 9 ] In 1987, the IASC adopted a new strategy of strengthening its standards to make them a suitable basis for financial reporting by companies seeking cross-border stock market listings ...
In 1999, the FASB issued International Accounting Standard Setting: A Vision for the Future, a report which acknowledged the rapid changes taking place in the international accounting standard setting environment, and that convergence and development of high-quality international standards are coinciding goals. [22]
In December 2007, Mike Hathorn (then chair of the IPSAS Board) said that only six governments across the world had actually issued financial statements on the full accrual basis (at the FEE Public Sector meeting, Brussels). In September 2009, the IMF said that the following countries had adopted the full accrual basis of accounting: Australia ...
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]