Essay On IFRS

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Introduction
In response to increase international investment and cross-listing of multinational companies, there have been worldwide effort to harmonize accounting standards by require the listed company in European Union (EU) countries to prepare their financial statements according to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). IFRS are a set of accounting standards developed by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). It has become the global standard for the preparation of public listed company financial statements. The objective of IFRS are to build up a set of quality, easy to comprehend, easy to enforce through the IASB and encouraging the use and fast implementation of those standards. To achieve the objectives, the IFRS is developing and publishing profiles about the use of IFRS in individual jurisdictions (Pacter, 2014, p6-10). In 2003, the first IFRS was issued by which time at least 19 countries required to compliance with the international standards. At least 40 countries continue to require domestically developed accounting standards over IFRS in year 2007. Some large economics like Japan, China and USA were in the list of 40 countries.

Speak the same language
The benefit of switching to a global accounting standard is that a financial statements from a country will be using the same rules as another country’s financial statements. In an increasingly global market place, international comparability is critical to enable the effective allocation of scarce resources (Hicks, 2009). IFRS have allow companies and users of preparing the financial statements to speak the same language, resulting them to be easier to compare with each other. In the current system, if a company used a different rule i...

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...-104). In my opinion, implementing a global set of accounting standards will allow companies to be more competitive in a global marketplace and find more sources to raise capital. Also, companies will be able to cut down the number of financial statements they prepare and lowering expenses in organizations. IFRS establish a level playing field for globalized markets and enhance cross-border capital flows. A set of high quality global accounting standards will provide financial market participants with comparable financial statements and thereby help them make economic decisions (Cascino and Gassen, 2011). Tdhe transparency in financial reporting would support the good governance practice. Last but not least, the quality of the IFRS standards should be evaluated so that investors do not lose confidence in the reliability and accuracy of the new financial statements.

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