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A consolidated financial statement (CFS) is the "financial statement of a group in which the assets, liabilities, equity, income, expenses and cash flows of the parent company and its subsidiaries are presented as those of a single economic entity", according to International Accounting Standard 27 "Consolidated and separate financial statements", and International Financial Reporting Standard ...
e. IFRS 10, IFRS 11 and IFRS 12 are three International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) promulgated by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) providing accounting guidance related to consolidation and joint ventures. The standards were issued in 2011 and became effective in 2013. [1] IFRS 10 addresses consolidated financial ...
e. In business, consolidation or amalgamation is the merger and acquisition of many smaller companies into a few much larger ones. In the context of financial accounting, consolidation refers to the aggregation of financial statements of a group company as consolidated financial statements. The taxation term of consolidation refers to the ...
e. International Financial Reporting Standards, commonly called IFRS, are accounting standards issued by the IFRS Foundation and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). [1] They constitute a standardised way of describing the company's financial performance and position so that company financial statements are understandable and ...
A balance sheet or statement of financial position, reports on a company's assets, liabilities, and owners equity at a given point in time. An income statement —or profit and loss report ( P&L report ), or statement of comprehensive income, or statement of revenue & expense —reports on a company's income, expenses, and profits over a stated ...
FIN 46 was an interpretation of ARB 51, an accounting principle issued in August 1959 defining the situations where Consolidated Financial Statements must be prepared. [4] Whenever a company has a controlling financial interest in another entity it must consolidate the assets and liabilities of the other entity—that is, it must add the assets ...
t. e. The convergence of accounting standards refers to the goal of establishing a single set of accounting standards that will be used internationally. [1] Convergence in some form has been taking place for several decades, [2] and efforts today include projects that aim to reduce the differences between accounting standards. [3]
Accounting Principles Board Opinions, Interpretations and Recommendations were published by the Accounting Principles Board from 1962 to 1973. The board was created by American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) in 1959 and was replaced by Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in 1973. Its mission was to develop an overall ...