Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes, Accounting and Auditing : Module A - Accounting and Auditing Standards, A.1 Financial Reporting Standards Analysis

The quality of financial reporting depends to a great extent on the quality of the Accounting and Auditing (A&A) standards on which the reporting is based. Accounting standards are seen as a critical language of business. In countries seeking t...

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spelling okr-10986-262212021-05-25T08:58:03Z Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes, Accounting and Auditing : Module A - Accounting and Auditing Standards, A.1 Financial Reporting Standards Analysis World Bank accounting auditing international financial reporting standards financial statements The quality of financial reporting depends to a great extent on the quality of the Accounting and Auditing (A&A) standards on which the reporting is based. Accounting standards are seen as a critical language of business. In countries seeking to improve their business environment to attract foreign direct investment and mobilize savings and finance to support productive and job-creating activities, if national accounting standards differ significantly from the increasingly universal international benchmark, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), it becomes difficult for foreign investors to understand the financial reports of domestic companies, thus potentially hampering investment and growth. The objective of the financial reporting standards analysis is to compare national financial reporting standards (or generally accepted accounting principles - national (GAAP) with IFRS with a view to capturing significant differences (where applicable) in order to provide: (a) readers with a clear sense of where key areas of divergence lie, and (b) country counterparts with concrete suggestions for improving national GAAP and aligning them to the extent possible with IFRS. 2017-03-07T22:17:40Z 2017-03-07T22:17:40Z 2017 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/163251487919599733/Report-on-the-Observance-of-Standards-and-Codes-ROSC-Accounting-and-Auditing-A-A-module-A-A-A-standards-A-1-financial-reporting-standards-analysis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26221 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Accounting and Auditing Assessment
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Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes, Accounting and Auditing : Module A - Accounting and Auditing Standards, A.1 Financial Reporting Standards Analysis
description The quality of financial reporting depends to a great extent on the quality of the Accounting and Auditing (A&A) standards on which the reporting is based. Accounting standards are seen as a critical language of business. In countries seeking to improve their business environment to attract foreign direct investment and mobilize savings and finance to support productive and job-creating activities, if national accounting standards differ significantly from the increasingly universal international benchmark, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), it becomes difficult for foreign investors to understand the financial reports of domestic companies, thus potentially hampering investment and growth. The objective of the financial reporting standards analysis is to compare national financial reporting standards (or generally accepted accounting principles - national (GAAP) with IFRS with a view to capturing significant differences (where applicable) in order to provide: (a) readers with a clear sense of where key areas of divergence lie, and (b) country counterparts with concrete suggestions for improving national GAAP and aligning them to the extent possible with IFRS.
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title Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes, Accounting and Auditing : Module A - Accounting and Auditing Standards, A.1 Financial Reporting Standards Analysis
title_short Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes, Accounting and Auditing : Module A - Accounting and Auditing Standards, A.1 Financial Reporting Standards Analysis
title_full Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes, Accounting and Auditing : Module A - Accounting and Auditing Standards, A.1 Financial Reporting Standards Analysis
title_fullStr Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes, Accounting and Auditing : Module A - Accounting and Auditing Standards, A.1 Financial Reporting Standards Analysis
title_full_unstemmed Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes, Accounting and Auditing : Module A - Accounting and Auditing Standards, A.1 Financial Reporting Standards Analysis
title_sort report on the observance of standards and codes, accounting and auditing : module a - accounting and auditing standards, a.1 financial reporting standards analysis
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
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