Setting a deadline for the deadline

When the financial crisis was at its peak in 2009, the G20 group met to set a date for the worldwide convergence of the financial standards by end of the year. The deadline got postponed to mid-2011 and then again mid-2013. In a recent report from the SEC which made...

IASB fights back

In response to the July report issued by US SEC (which did not give any idea as to whether and when would the SEC decide on adoption of IFRS by its constituents), the IASB issued its own analysis of the situation. According to the International Accounting Standards...

IFRS, maybe not for US

Even though FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board) has been working with the IASB (International Accounting Standards Board) towards convergence of US GAAP with IFRS since 2002, the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) has only recently in 2010, started to...

Japan deciding on IFRS

On February 7 and 8, 2011 members of the Accounting Standards Board of Japan and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) met to update each other on the progress they are making on convergence of their respective Accounting Standards with International...