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Conceptual Framework. The IASB and FASB previously commenced a joint comprehensive project on the Conceptual Framework in 2004 and had split the project into a number of phases. BOX 3821, STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT 06906-0821 This paper analyses various controversial issues arising from the current project of the IASB and FASB to develop a joint conceptual framework for financial reporting standards. 3The FASB has also issued a Statement of Financial Accounting Concepts that relates to non- International Insight The IASB has issued a conceptual framework that is broadly consistent with that of the United States. Revisions of the Conceptual Framework will not automatically lead to changes to the Standards. the fundamental concepts need to constitute a framework that is sound, comprehensive, and internally consistent. `������y�X�b��+4O�Ynؓ4縡WҜi��f���;����b��M�`"�����*W�"c���MFq/6\��d�Ʌ����`�8E�L���x���e� l�i�#�C�N���]d�P(���I>�� �(`��i��>�7$��r��܉�������@W��T�D���� �F. 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Norwalk, CT 06856-5116 . numbers, as well as budgeting, monitoring, and reporting to the capital markets.2 The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) provide a framework for quantifying and reporting, in financial terms, the assets, liabilities, and owners’ equity (“capital”) of the reporting entity. 401 Merritt 7 . This Exposure Draft, which would become Chapter 4 of Concepts Statement 8, addresses matters relating to elements of financial statements. For example, matters of financial presentation, derecognition, disclosure, and the definition of a reporting entity are not addressed. The phases were ad­dress­ing the following topics: 1. FASB Accounting Standards Codification FAR 1 Module 1 1 Standards and Conceptual Framework Standards and Conceptual Framework 1 Financial Accounting Standards 1.1 Standard-Setting ... which determined GAAP from 1959 until 1973. 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