The development of a common set of high-quality accounting standards for domestic and international use has been a major initiative for ASBJ and FASB. Both institutions want to achieve the G20 goal of promoting transparency in global standards.
Representatives of the Accounting Standards Board of Japan (ASBJ) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) gathered this week in Norwalk, CT. Led by Ikuo Nishikawa, Chairman of the ASBJ, and Robert H. Herz, Chairman of the FASB, the meeting was the eighth in a series of discussions between the ASBJ and the FASB, designed to enhance dialogue between the two Boards in their shared pursuit of global convergence of accounting standards.
The development of a common set of high-quality accounting standards for both domestic and international use has been a major initiative of the ASBJ and the FASB. Working toward that goal with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), the organizations believe that common financial reporting across the major business and capital markets of the world is a critical component in providing credible, comparable, conceptually sound and usable financial information.
As part of the meeting, representatives of the Boards discussed respective strategies toward a single set of high-quality global standards. In this session, representatives of the ASBJ described the ASBJ’s activities taking into account the
Interim Report, Opinion on the Application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Japan (Interim Report), issued in June 2009 by the Business Accounting Council. Representatives of the
FASB discussed progress between the
FASB and the
IASB on the projects covered by their Memorandum of Understanding.
In addition, representatives of the Boards exchanged their views on the current status of their work on the following projects:
· Other comprehensive income and recycling
· Measurement of liabilities, including own credit risk
· Financial instruments
· Leases
The next joint meeting is planned for the first half of 2010 in Tokyo.
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