Its a little bundle of letters and numbers, but its creating an awfully big stink. Those who set accounting standards met with their critics in March to discuss proposals to transform the way that ...

The Philippine Financial Reporting Standards (PFRS) and Philippine Accounting Standards (PAS) will apply to annual financial statements starting from 2005. The guidelines follow a memorandum issued by ...

THE DEBATE over accounting standards flared up again this week when investor lobbyists Pirc called on shareholders to vote against the re-appointment of PwC as auditors of Barclays. But why does Pirc ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Remember the International Accounting Standards Board’s proposed revisions to IAS 39? The organisation wants to ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. The European Union's decision to accept a modified version of the contentious international accounting standard on valuing financial ...

IAS 39 is fair value measurement accounting standard followed by IASB. The objective of IAS 39 is to establish principles for recognizing and measuring the value of financial assets, financial ...

As discussed in our KPMG Corner published last Nov. 11, 2008, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issued the Amendments to International Accounting Standard (IAS) 39 Financial ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) on Thursday allowed companies/entities that are applying IAS 39/principles of IAS 39 (for Available for Sale equity instruments), relief from ...

The regulations, which listed European Union companies must comply with by January 2005, require that all derivatives be accounted for at fair value. "Significant changes are required in the Munich Re ...