Explore the major differences between IFRS and U.S. GAAP, including inventory write-downs, intangible assets, and accounting rules, to better understand international reporting standards.

In the area of fixed assets and the resultant depreciation there are some major differences between the GAAP rules codified in ASC Topic 360 and the IFRS rules in IAS 16. Processing Content In GAAP ...

GAAP, which stands for generally accepted accounting principles, is the set of accounting standards followed by most U.S. businesses, not-for-profit organizations, and state and local governments, as ...

GAAP accounting stands for generally accepted accounting principles. These principles are a set of standardized rules that accountants use. Companies that sell public stock and release financial ...

Editor’s Note: Lee Hodge is a member of the Business Practice Group at Ward and Smith, P.A. What is Changing? The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") has announced a proposed timetable for ...

Generally accepted accounting principles are a set of 10 accounting standards and guidelines created and maintained by the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board. Since the FASB established GAAP ...

When a public company issues a financial statement, everything needs to be clear and well-understood by everyone reading it. To ensure this, it’s paramount to have a baseline for reporting. That’s ...

Improper use of non-GAAP measures, which has been an item of scrutiny in public company reporting for years, remains an area of concern for the SEC staff. “The regulations and guidance over non-GAAP ...

When a company or individual makes an investment, the obvious goal is for that investment to increase in value over time. However, until the investment is sold, these capital gains are unrealized-- in ...

Prompted by federal regulators, Tesla urged its numbers crunchers to do their work a bit differently last year. Alarmed by publicly traded companies’ increasing ways to be creative with their income ...