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International Accounting Standards Board
International Accounting Standards Board
based in London, UK. Board members come from nine countries and have a variety of functional backgrounds. The Board is committed to developing, in the public interest, a single set of high quality, understandable and enforceable global accounting standards that require transparent and comparable information in general purpose financial statements. In addition, the Board cooperates with national accounting standard setters to achieve convergence in accounting standards around the world. The IASB is responsible for developing and approving International Accounting Standards (IAS). Todate, a total of 40 IAS have been promulgated by the IASB and its predecessor, the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC). http://www.iasc.org.uk