International Accounting Standards Committee

(redirected from IASC)
Also found in: Acronyms, Wikipedia.

International Accounting Standards Committee

Also called the IASC. An organization established to standardize accounting practices across the world. Although the IASC had no authority to enforce its rulings, a number of countries followed its guidelines anyway. In 2001, the IASC was replaced by the International Accounting Standards Board.

Mentioned in ?

References in periodicals archive ?

At its March 1987 meeting, the IASC Board appointed a Steering Committee, chaired by Ralph Walters, now representing the AICPA on the IASC Board, to use the IASC Framework "to test the validity of alternative treatments and decide whether they are acceptable.

The evolution of the relationship between the US financial accounting standards board and the international accounting standard setters: 1973-2008

I am looking forward to Ms Gosling's contribution to the IASC, Mr Chester said.

Australia : New International Air Services Commission Appointment

IASC aims to serve as a platform for original ideas and existing programs centered on evidence, results and research," says Adam Armstrong, director of IASC.

Funding innovation

Benson tambem pode ter feito pressao a favor do IASC porque nao o agradava a qualidade das normas contabeis britanicas e porque acreditava, como no caso do impacto nas praticas de auditoria britanicas produzido pelo livreto do AISG sobre os estoques, que as normas e praticas contabeis britanicas poderiam beneficiar-se da participacao de seus orgaos contabeis em um empreendimento global colaborativo de normalizacao.

A Evolucao do IASC para o IASB e os Desafios Enfrentados

Since the program's foundation, IASC students have discovered several hundred objects.

From space to school: an international collaboration puts asteroid hunting in the hands of students

IASC noted that the vast majority of aloe vera products for oral consumption are decolorized, or purified.

Safety of aloe vera consumption debated: aloe Science Council defends products manufactured according to standards for aloin content

The international accounting standard setting process for the extractive industries formally commenced in 1998 when the IASC added the extractive industries project to its agenda (IASC 1998).

Politicisation of the international accounting standard setting process: evidence from the extractive industries

IASC Chairman Sharpe and Secretary-General Carsberg asked Ed Waitzer, a lawyer and former Chairman of the Ontario Securities Commission and of the IOSCO Technical Committee, to become chairman of the SWP, and he accepted.

The evolution of the relationship between the US financial accounting standards board and the international accounting standard setters: 1973-2008

During the conference Bill Pine, vice president of sales at Improve USA, stepped down from his two-year term as IASC chairman was replaced by Aloecorp's Mick Anderson.

IASC awards issued at Scientific Seminar

IASC restructures and adopts new constitution; European Commission announces plan to adopt international accounting standard no later than 2005.

Reserving judgment: the advent of the International Financial Reporting Standard finds European insurers in a gray area when it comes to accounting for insurance contracts

Attractions at the IASC will inc lude a re-creation of Sir Isaac Newton's laboratory and exhibits documenting mankind's Search for Extraterrestrial Intellig ence (SETI).

pounds 4m to revamp ferry terminal

While the majority of current security efforts, such as fire walls, place the primary burden of security on end users, IASC research will focus on all elements of the network: telecommunications providers, enterprise networks, customer networks, and hardware and software vendors, according to company spokesman Wes Warnock.