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Aiming for Global Accounting Standards: The International Accounting Standards Board, 2001-2011
This book provides a historical study of the body that sets International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) - the basis for financial reporting. It provides extensive background information to help practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, and educators form a deeper understanding of the people, the forces, and events that have shaped IFRSs.
| Author(s) | By Kees Camfferman (Professor of Financial Accounting, Professor of Financial Accounting, VU University Amsterdam), Stephen A. Zeff (Professor of Accounting, Professor of Accounting, Rice University). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 688 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 5 Jul 2018 |
| Availability | Available |
This book provides a historical study of the body that sets International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) - the basis for financial reporting. It provides extensive background information to help practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, and educators form a deeper understanding of the people, the forces, and events that have shaped IFRSs.
1: Introduction 2: Evolution of the IASC into the IASB 3: Setting up the IASB 4: The First Wave of Jurisdictional Adoptions of IFRSs 5: The IASB Sets its Agenda: 'Improvement, Convergence, Leadership' 6: Financial Instruments: The Confrontation with
Kees Camfferman is Professor of Financial Accounting at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and a qualified auditor. His research, published in several international academic journals, is focused on the development of financial reporting practices and of the i
