Convergence of Revenue Recognition

One accounting principle that is omnipresent in the accounting of all companies, be it public or private, domestic or private, billion dollar company or a startup, is the “Revenue recognition principle”.  Presently, US Generally Accepted Accounting...

IFRS a bane for Real Estate Companies in India

The Indian government is all set to drop the new rule from International Financial Reporting Standards (or as the accountants call it IFRS) that allows property developers to book sales only when the project is complete. In the present real estate market where the...

XBRL Costs

A very interesting survey that I found today was the SEC survey related to XBRL. What intrigued me was the cost structure of the XBRL filing. The survey states that the first time filers with block text footnotes and schedules on an average require 125 hours, assuming...

Convergence vs Adoption

There is a lot of talk of the convergence project undertaken by Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). But why is the convergence project and not the adoption project. Adoption would mean that the Securities...