Abstract
This paper explores the differences between the International Financial Reporting Standards and Generally Accepted Accounting Principals that all companies use to prepare financial statements. Now more than ever companies feel the need to be more globalized and expand into different markets within foreign countries, and in doing that their needs to be one set of accounting standards that all companies should be in compliance with; The United States operates under the GAAP standards, note that there are comparable differences between the two standards, but operating under IFRS standards would be very beneficial for the US because they would have a better understanding of the markets they are trying to capture if there is only one accounting language.
IFRS are mandated standards by the International Accounting Standards Broad, and majority of foreign countries such as Russia, Australia, Europe, South Africa, and Saudi Arabia all are required to use IFRS. GAAP principles are set forth by the Financial Accounting Standards Board which is what the United States follows.
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