Lew Burnham
Lew Burnham
The role of the audit committee of the board of directors depends first on the adequacy of the corporate governance frameworkof the enterprise. It also depends on the way in which the board is structured to carry out its responsibilities and what authority and functions are delegated to its permanent committees. Therefore, the beginning of this «best practices» discussion will be the optimum committee structure for a board.
The board should, of course, have a majority of non-management ...
The Agony (of large changes and new complexities) and the Ecstasy (of worldwide standards and better figures)
The Agony (of large changes ... ... background information about the development, current status, and future prospects of IAS. It also discusses the new structure of the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC). As readers of Accounting Report are aware of many of the details given in ...
At its’ meeting in November, the IFAC Board agreed to admit three new bodies to full membership: National Chamber of Statutory Auditorsof Poland, InstituteofProfessional Accountants of Russia, and the Slovak Chamber ofAuditors. IFAC members now...
IPA joins IFAC
At its’ meeting ... ... Accounting standards for the Public Sector
IFAC’s Public Sector Committee (PSC) has made significant headway in developing international accounting standards for governments and their agencies by releasing five new International Public Sector Accounting ...
Yuri Danilevsky
Oleg Ostrovsky
Eugeny Guttsait
Yuri Danilevsky
Oleg Ostrovsky
Eugeny Guttsait
The work on the current set of Russian audit standards has been going on since 1995. At the outset, the set of standards was established as a national equivalent ofInternational Standards on Auditing (ISA) issued by the International Federation of Accountants (this used to be explicitly stated in the «General Provisions» Section of the first Russian standards). Therefore the underlying principles of ISAs were ...
New IFAC study assists public sector entities with transition from cash basis to accrual basis of accounting
New IFAC study assists public sector entities with transition from cash basis to accrual basis of accounting
The International Federation of Accountants« (IFAC»s) Public Sector Committee (PSC) has released a Study on Transition to the Accrual Basis of Accounting: Guidance for Governments and Government Entities. This study identifies key issues to be addressed ...