International Finance and Accounting Handbook

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PART III WORLD SCENE OF ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING PRACTICES CHAPTER 12 Summary of Accounting Principle Differences Around the Wor ...

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12 • 1 CHAPTER 12 SUMMARY OF ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLE DIFFERENCES AROUND THE WORLD* William E. Decker, Jr. PricewaterhouseCoopers LL ...

spective and the difficulty of getting all countries to agree to a single set of interna- tionally accepted accounting principle ...

their requirements, and that can be accessed efficiently at a reasonable price or cost of capital when compared to the next best ...

12 • 4 NO OF COMPANIES WITH SHARES LISTED VALUE OF SHARE TRADING in Billion of US$ Exchange Domestic % Foreign % Domestic % Fore ...

12.3 INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING DIVERSITY. As businesses become more in- ternational, there is a more pressing need for financial ...

12 • 6 International The Allowed United States Japan United Kingdom France Germany Netherlands Switzerland Canada Italy Brazil B ...

12.4 CONSEQUENCES OF INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING DIVERSITY. Users who are not sensitive to international accounting differences may ...

oped by the analyst on the basis of ratios of comparable companies in the local envi- ronment prepared under accounting rules ex ...

of understanding of a specific country’s accounting principles and disclosures, and concerns about the reliability of financial ...

markets in these countries. Post-Enron, the preeminence of the U.S. standard-setting model has been challenged and the pendulum ...

Research and development expenditures Fixed assets Inventory valuation Leases Pensions Accounting for income taxes Foreign curr ...

development costs can be capitalized. Such is the case, for example, in Canada and the United Kingdom, and under IAS 38, “Intang ...

depreciating the costs over time yields a better matching of costs to the periods in which the related assets are used to genera ...

that results in an asset’s book value falling below its current market value during pe- riods of moderate to high inflation. Cou ...

The principal justification for using the FIFO method for inventory valuation is that under FIFO the cost of goods sold on the i ...