{"id":389,"date":"2009-12-02T09:23:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T16:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfo.markbaileyco.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2009-12-02T09:23:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T16:23:53","slug":"ifrs-time-to-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/02\/ifrs-time-to-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"IFRS &#8211; Time to Panic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-397\" title=\"IFRS is a ticking time bomb!\" src=\"http:\/\/cfo.markbaileyco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/iStock_000003998073XSmall-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"IFRS is a ticking time bomb!\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" \/>In recent months the focus of discussions related to adoption of the International\u00a0 Financial Reporting Standards have centered on differences with US GAAP (such as LIFO inventory), timing and implementation. I don&#8217;t want to debate the necessity of adopting a world standard given our weakening\u00a0 influence over the world economy, or the esoteric benefits or detriments.\u00a0 My concerns are much more basic. Without tort reform in the United States, IFRS is a time bomb with a very short fuse resulting in a cataclysmic disaster waiting to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, US GAAP is a rules based set of standards. While the end result of their application frequently results in worthless unsupportable financial reporting, the issuer and their auditor have but to point to the &#8216;rules&#8217; in defense. On the other hand, IFRS is principles based, and simpler to apply.\u00a0 But it can and frequently does require the issuer and his auditor to exercise<strong> judgment<\/strong>.\u00a0 Judgment that can be questioned, criticized and\u00a0 litigated.<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t misunderstand.\u00a0 Professionally in my opinion the quality of financial reporting will be significantly improved by the application of sound principles. IFRS is long overdue. Without liability reform, however, I fear financial reporting and assurance services will quickly follow the health care industry in terms of cost to the providers.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m just paranoid in my advancing years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent months the focus of discussions related to adoption of the International\u00a0 Financial Reporting Standards have centered on differences with US GAAP (such as LIFO inventory), timing and implementation. I don&#8217;t want to debate the necessity of adopting a world standard given our weakening\u00a0 influence over the world economy, or the esoteric benefits or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/02\/ifrs-time-to-panic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IFRS &#8211; Time to Panic?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,37,63,11],"tags":[207,208,209,48,210,211,212,213,214],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accounting","category-decomplexifying-accounting","category-governance","category-sec-compliance","tag-assurance-services","tag-financial-reporting-standards","tag-health-care-industry","tag-ifrs","tag-implementation","tag-international-financial-reporting-standards","tag-liability-reform","tag-tort-reform","tag-world-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}