Saturday, June 11, 2011

Brave New World: IFRS and Consolidation


Under IFRS 10, companies with SPEs and other interests would be forced to do some homework in the fast-changing world of international accounting standards.

The International Accounting Standards Board’s IFRS 10 -- which covers consolidation -- is “to some extent a child of the financial crisis,” says Karl Braun, a partner in charge of KPMG’s U.S. IFRS initiative.

In a KPMG webcast this week, dedicated to consolidated financial statements and the impact of international financial reporting standards, this was the underpinning for a number of lessons about implications of the new standard, and how companies can deal with it, if and when it comes.

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