An efficient approach to integrating IFRS into the intermediate accounting series while covering traditional US GAAP standards might be to build accounting topics cash, inventory, etc. around business activities using a flow of funds model. Here, each topical coverage could be discussed in terms of decision-making as it affects operating, investing, and financing activities. Again, a case approach might be utilized and a set of questions facing decision- makers could be developed in order to require students to evaluate and discuss how the decisions might be affected by differences between IFRS and US GAAP. Since US GAAP and IFRS standards have been largely converged, the merger and acquisition accounting course (i.e., advanced accounting) could merely supplement existing coverage with a discussion of differences between both regimes. In addition to covering traditional cost/managerial concepts, the cost/managerial course (for accounting majors only) might incorporate IFRS by considering how this reporting regime might increase/decrease tendencies toward income smoothing, big baths, and other agency problems, as well as consider the impact of IFRS on performance analysis and performance-based compensation. Discussion of IFRS in the auditing course might focus on how the principles-based nature of IFRS could affect an accountant’s legal liability, the scope of the audit, and the auditor’s liability under Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), particularly the internal control provisions of the Act. Finally, the tax courses might examine how income could increase or decrease under IFRS, although the possible impact on the tax liability will depend on whether and to what extent existing tax laws will be affected.
An efficient approach to integrating IFRS into the intermediate accounting series while covering traditional US GAAP standards might be to build accounting topics cash, inventory, etc. around business activities using a flow of funds model. Here, each topical coverage could be discussed in terms of decision-making as it affects operating, investing, and financing activities. Again, a case approach might be utilized and a set of questions facing decision- makers could be developed in order to require students to evaluate and discuss how the decisions might be affected by differences between IFRS and US GAAP. Since US GAAP and IFRS standards have been largely converged, the merger and acquisition accounting course (i.e., advanced accounting) could merely supplement existing coverage with a discussion of differences between both regimes. In addition to covering traditional cost/managerial concepts, the cost/managerial course (for accounting majors only) might incorporate IFRS by considering how this reporting regime might increase/decrease tendencies toward income smoothing, big baths, and other agency problems, as well as consider the impact of IFRS on performance analysis and performance-based compensation. Discussion of IFRS in the auditing course might focus on how the principles-based nature of IFRS could affect an accountant’s legal liability, the scope of the audit, and the auditor’s liability under Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), particularly the internal control provisions of the Act. Finally, the tax courses might examine how income could increase or decrease under IFRS, although the possible impact on the tax liability will depend on whether and to what extent existing tax laws will be affected.
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