International Accounting Standards
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Accounting is sometimes referred to as the "language of business." Financial statements and accounting pronouncements are used by stakeholders in organizations·shareholders, employees, creditors, investors, suppliers, customers·to evaluate a company's performance and potential. When companies were based in the same country as their stakeholders, following the accounting regulations of that country provided few problems. Standards were necessary·particularly for publicly traded companies·to ensure that comparisons could be made among different companies while the same "definitions" were in place for the "language" of business regardless of who prepared financial statements. As business has become increasingly global, however, the differences in standards among various countries has become more obvious and, in some cases, troublesome. The United States has general accepted accounting principles that apply to its publicly-traded companies; because of the size and complexity of the American market, these standards have also been implemented in other countries, as well. In Europe, however, different national standards have remained in place until 2005, when a single standard was imposed on European companies. This research considers the importance of financial statements in general, the international standards imposed by the European Union, whether Quaccess should adopt these international standards, and whether governments should be involved in the imposi
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panies with headquarters in EU nations have long prepared financial statements·including balance sheets and profit/loss statements·for their shareholders. However, there has been no single standard across the various nations. While differences tended to be subtle, they could nonetheless result in material differences in reporting depending on which standard was used. The introduction of a single currency·the euro·made it easier for capital to flow across international boundaries in Europe, and the need for financial statements that would also be standardized increased ("EU Regulations" n.p.).
Various stakeholders are eager to see a unified set of standards in place. This will enable stakeholders·creditors, investors, suppliers, employees·to compare companies across Europe without regard to the national standards to which these companies might have otherwise reported. In this way, a German company can be compared to a French company or a Dutch company without concern that there might be significant differences in their financial information based on different national accounting standards. Given that the EU is a larger economic market than the United States, when taken as a whole, and that capital flows freely throughout the
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