Titlebook: Global Financial Reporting; John Flower,Gabi Ebbers Textbook 2002Latest edition The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2002 accou

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Globalizationwith no undue emphasis on any particular country. It is aimed at students of accounting, most of whom study financial reporting from the viewpoint of practice in their own country. Why study financial reporting from a global viewpoint? There are two very good but rather different reasons:

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The Causes of Diversityntry. This leads to a remarkable diversity in the financial statements prepared by enterprises from different countries. This diversity covers all aspects of financial reporting, including the types of statements, the amount of disclosure in these statements and the methods used to measure the items

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Regulationorting in that country. In financial reporting there are many different types of rules and they cover a very wide spectrum, ranging from, at one extreme, laws which must be obeyed under sanction of penalties imposed by the state, through accounting standards, which, according to the country, may or

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Germanyrd largest economy in the world; it is a major power in world trade, being second only to the USA in the size of its exports and imports; in fact, in certain years its exports even exceeded those of the USA. German enterprises are large investors in other countries in terms both of annual flows and

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The IASB: Its Standardsg office, stated that the IASC’s standards continued to be applicable unless and until they were superseded by a standard issued by the IASB. In effect the IASB adopted the IASC’s standards as its own standards. A full list of the standards current at 30 June 2001 is presented in Exhibit 12.1, which

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The IASB’s Frameworkthe annex. Its very first sentence reads: ‘This Framework sets out the concepts that underlie the preparation and presentation of financial statements.’ The use of the word ‘concept’ indicates that the IASB’s Framework is an example of a general category of constructs known as conceptual frameworks.

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The Balance Sheet I: Assetsst. This reflects the primacy given to this statement in the IASB’s Framework, as evidenced by the Framework’s definitions of the elements of the two statements as presented in Exhibit 13.4. These definitions will be examined in more detail later. For the moment, the important point to note is that