AFW3040 Assignment 1 Recently in June 2010‚ the International Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Standard Board initiated a joint project and released an exposure draft named Revenue from Contracts with Customers. This exposure draft emphasizes the status of revenue in assessing financial statements and states that revenue is conclusive in assessing a company’s operating situation and developing prospects. This statement has a profound influence on accounting industry and
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Introduction & Intent of Project The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) have undertaken a joint revenue recognition project that clarifies the principles for recognizing revenue that can be applied consistently across various transactions‚ industries‚ and capital markets. This project will apply to all contracts with customers except leases‚ financial instruments and insurance contracts. The joint project will attempt to remove inconsistencies
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Revenue recognition on FASB and IASB convergence process I. CONVERGENCE OF U.S. GAAP AND IFRS Since 2002‚ Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) have been working toward “convergence” of US General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). They have made significant progress in efforts to converge critical accounting standards such as those dealing with revenue recognition‚
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Framework — IASB-FASB joint project Background At their joint meeting in October 2004‚ the IASB and the US FASB decided to add to their respective agendas a joint project to develop a common conceptual framework‚ based on and built on both the existing IASB Framework and the FASB Conceptual Framework‚ that both Boards would use as a basis for their accounting standards. The two boards reached the following tentative decisions about the approach to the project: * The project should initially
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2014-09 "Revenue from Contracts with Customers” Jade Nelson ACCT 4111-01 10/28/2014 Over the past few years‚ the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) have been working closely together to develop a new set of revenue recognition standards in an effort to merge the standards of FASB and IASB‚ lessen the amount of industry-specific differences in the standards‚ and make the standards more principles-based. Because revenue is very
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number | Facts about FASB and IASB | 3 | Similarity and differences between FASB and IASB‚ Efforts to resolve differences in the standard between FASB and IASB‚ | 4 | Convergence of FASB and IASB | 5 | Issues | 6 | The needs of harmonization of internal accounting standards | 7 | Obstacles of harmonization of accounting standards‚ discussion and evaluation on whether it will be accepted by all users | 8 | Conclusion | 9 | Reference List | 10-11 | FASB Financial Accounting
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IASB and FASB release revenue recognition exposure draft What is the issue? On June 24th‚ the FASB and IASB issued an exposure draft proposing a new revenue recognition model that could fundamentally alter the way entities across a variety of industries recognise revenue. The proposal is an output of the boards’ joint efforts to develop a converged revenue recognition standard based on the same principles. A key objective is to increase the consistency of revenue recognition for similar contracts
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What are the convergence projects between FASB and IASB? What are their major problems? What are their major achievements? The Norwalk Agreement‚ first announced on September of 2002‚ was a paramount step towards a unified global accounting standard. In this document‚ both U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Boards (IASB) (the Boards) “each acknowledge their commitments to the development of high quality‚ compatible accounting standards
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IASB and FASB Convergence Project To compete in a global economy with the emergence of multinational corporations financial reporting requires operators to understand the accounting practices used by the company‚ the language of the country in which the company exists‚ and the currency utilized by the corporation to prepare its financial statements and in turn to attract investors and creditors to invest in or lend money to companies. To harmonize accounting standards among countries‚ The International
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In 1973‚ the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF)‚ an independent‚ private sector organization‚ established the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to establish and improve standards of financial accounting and reporting for nongovernmental entities. FASB has been the designated organization in the private sector for establishing standards of financial accounting that governs the preparation of financial reports by nongovernmental entities. The standards officially recognized as authoritative
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