Accounting Reporting Criteria
Accounting Reporting Criteria
ACC 300 Principles of Accounting
University of Phoenix
There are several differences in the accounting reporting criteria between a company being run in the United States and one being run in a different country. Each country has guidelines and rules when it comes to the criteria for accounting. There are two banks that are based in different countries, Bank of America, which is run in the United States and Barclay's bank which is run in Scotland. There are some comparisons between the two banks; the regulatory environment; issues with foreign currency and differences in GAAP that show that some accounting reporting criteria are different in each country and some are not different.
Regulatory Environment
Over the last few years the regulatory environment has changed in the United States to help protect the American people who invest in different organizations. The biggest change is the enactment of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002. This was created because of the shady accounting procedures used by ENRON, and WorldCom (Sox Law).
Foreign organizations that are traded on the United States Exchange have to follow the same guidelines as organizations in the United States. With the passage of SOX, the accounting practices of foreign companies have merged with the practices of the United States accounting practices. The Securities and Exchange Commission is working on policies that will create accounting policies that will be globally accepted.
The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are the standards that have been adopted by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). The IASB sets policies through the International Accounting Standards Committee.
With the foreign organizations conducting business within the United States there are no real differences in the accounting practices of United States organizations and foreign organizations.
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