IASB in Far East convergence move
The International Accounting Standards Board and its Japanese counterpart have launched an IFRS convergence project aimed at narrowing differences between their respective reporting rules.
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The move is one of many projects designed to bring accounting standards closer on a global scale. However, differences between both boards – principally the accounting treatment of mergers – is expected to create an added level of complexity.
A large number of accountants in Japan has argued that certain business combinations should be seen as a ‘pooling of interests’ in which neither company is technically the acquirer, but under IFRS, all mergers must be treated as a form of acquisition in accounting terms.