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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) publishes and maintains the Accounting Standards Codification (ASC), which is the single source of authoritative nongovernmental U.S. GAAP. [2] The FASB published U.S. GAAP in Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) beginning in 2008.
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]
A main purpose of the project to develop IFRS 15 was that, although revenue is a critical metric for financial statement users, there were important differences between the IASB and FASB definitions of revenue, and there were different definitions of revenue even within each board's guidance for similar transactions accounting for under different standards. [3]
Guide for prospective financial information, with conforming changes as of May 1, 2007 full-text: 42-14: 2008: Prospective financial information, with conforming changes as of March 1, 2008 full-text: 42-15: 2009: Prospective financial information, with conforming changes as of March 1, 2009 full-text: 42-16: 2012
Although the IASC came to include some organizations representing preparers and users of financial statements, it largely remained an initiative of the accountancy profession. On 1 April 2001, it was replaced by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), an independent standard-setting body.
This article is an incomplete list of Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) pronouncements, which consist of Statements of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS" or simply "FAS"), Statements of Financial Accounting Concepts, Interpretations, Technical Bulletins, and Staff Positions, which together presented rules and guidelines for preparing, presenting, and reporting financial ...
The Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) is the national professional accountancy body of the Philippines. Explorers with an accounting background first formed the PICPA in November 1929. [2] The PICPA focuses on four areas of practice for a CPA: Public Practice, Commerce and Industry, Education, and Government. [2]
The report goes on to say that, while the U.S. financial reporting community does not support IFRS as the authoritative mechanism for US financial reporting, there is support for "high-quality, globally accepted accounting standards" as demonstrated in the joint efforts of the IASB and FASB to develop converged financial reporting for revenue ...