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Foreign public firms are now permitted to file using the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) without reconciliation to US GAAP as previously required. IFRS Standards provides a high quality, internationally recognized set of accounting standards that bring transparency, accountability, and efficiency to financial markets around the world.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This Standard does not deal with methods of accounting for business combinations and their effects on consolidation, including goodwill arising on a business combination.

  2. 2.

    IAS 32.1.

  3. 3.

    IAS 32.8.

  4. 4.

    IAS 32.15.

  5. 5.

    IAS 32.16.

  6. 6.

    IAS 32.16A-D.

  7. 7.

    IAS 32.29–30.

  8. 8.

    IAS 32.33.

  9. 9.

    IAS 32.42.

  10. 10.

    IAS 32.48.

  11. 11.

    IAS 32.35.

  12. 12.

    IAS 33.2.

  13. 13.

    IAS 33.3.

  14. 14.

    IAS 33.66.

  15. 15.

    IAS 33.69.

  16. 16.

    IAS 33.68 and 68A.

  17. 17.

    IAS 33.24.

  18. 18.

    IAS 33.31.

  19. 19.

    IAS 33.41.

  20. 20.

    IAS 33.64.

  21. 21.

    IAS 33.64.

  22. 22.

    IAS 34.8.

  23. 23.

    IAS 34.20.

  24. 24.

    IAS 34.28.

  25. 25.

    IAS 34.37.

  26. 26.

    IAS 34.39.

  27. 27.

    IAS 34.23.

  28. 28.

    IAS 34.26.

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Lessambo, F.I. (2018). IFRS and GAAP. In: Financial Statements. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99984-5_22

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