SEC scraps IFRS-GAAP reconciliation rule
USA’s SEC has agreed to drop the obligatory IFRS to GAAP reconciliation for US-registered foreign firms
USA’s SEC has agreed to drop the obligatory IFRS to GAAP reconciliation for US-registered foreign firms
USA’s
Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday voted unanimously to approve rule
amendments which will permit US-listed foreign companies to issue financial
statements in the US without reconciliation to US Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles (GAAP) if they use the International Financial Reporting Standards
(IFRS) issued by the
International Accounting
Standards Board (IASB).
A SEC statement said the purpose of the requirement to use the IASB-approved
version was to ‘encourage the development of IFRS as a uniform global standard’
rather than a divergent set of standards applied differently in every country.
The rule amendments will take effect 60 days after they are published in the
Federal Register and apply to financial statements, covering years ended after
November 15.
‘Consistent application of international accounting standards will help the
two-thirds of US investors who own foreign securities to understand and draw
better comparisons among investment options than they could with a multiplicity
of national accounting standards,’ Christopher Cox, SEC chairman, said.
Cox also announced SEC would convene two roundtables, on December 13 and
December 17, to collect more feedback from the public on the issue of giving US
domestic issuers the same option foreign issuers have, to use either IFRS or
GAAP in the US.
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