Background: Growth in international trade and capital flows has triggered a rising economic integration. Because of these developments there has been an international homogenising effect upon many customs, practices and institutions. In business life it led among other things to a desire to harmonise Accounting Standards among countries. Purpose: Our purpose is to answer the question: What is the international harmonisation process of Accounting Standards, what is its status quo and how important is the International Accounting Standard Board (IASB) in it? Realisation: In order to fulfil this purpose, we have chosen a descriptive approach, which is based on secondary data from textbooks, articles and homepages. Result: The international harmonisation of Accounting Standards is a process, which brings international Accounting Standards into some sort of agreement, in order to achieve a common set of principles, according to which financial statements from different countries are prepared. With the support of the IASB of the European Union (EU), 7000 European companies have to use International Accounting Standards (IAS) beginning 2005. Furthermore, the long existing rejection of IAS of the U.S. seems to change. Co-ordination of agendas of both standard-setting boards (IASB and Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) have been announced. We conclude, that the IASB plays a major role in the field of international harmonisation. This could be explained with achievements of the IASB, as for example the International Organisation of Security Commissions (IOSCO) Endorsement, EU regulation or the recent agreement of FASB and IASB to co-ordinate their work.

<p>Background: Growth in international trade and capital flows has triggered a rising economic integration. Because of these developments there has been an international homogenising effect upon many customs, practices and institutions. In business life it led among other things to a desire to harmonise Accounting Standards among countries. </p><p>Purpose: Our purpose is to answer the question: What is the international harmonisation process of Accounting Standards, what is its status quo and how important is the International Accounting Standard Board (IASB) in it? </p><p>Realisation: In order to fulfil this purpose, we have chosen a descriptive approach, which is based on secondary data from textbooks, articles and homepages. </p><p>Result: The international harmonisation of Accounting Standards is a process, which brings international Accounting Standards into some sort of agreement, in order to achieve a common set of principles, according to which financial statements from different countries are prepared. With the support of the IASB of the European Union (EU), 7000 European companies have to use International Accounting Standards (IAS) beginning 2005. Furthermore, the long existing rejection of IAS of the U.S. seems to change. Co-ordination of agendas of both standard-setting boards (IASB and Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) have been announced. We conclude, that the IASB plays a major role in the field of international harmonisation. This could be explained with achievements of the IASB, as for example the International Organisation of Security Commissions (IOSCO) Endorsement, EU regulation or the recent agreement of FASB and IASB to co-ordinate their work.</p>

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T18:39:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luciano Evangelista Pereira.pdf: 1884847 bytes, checksum: a38f92522c5c2d9c323d24808e4147c4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-01-21 / The constitution of the Accounting Pronouncements Committee (CPC) followed by Laws 11.638/2007 and 11.941/2009 resulted in a very important moment in Brazilian accounting. The approval of these laws, especially the Law 11.638/07 represented a landmark in the convergence process of Brazilian Accounting Standards (BRGAAP) to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) of the International Accounting Standard Board (IASB), the European entity responsible for issuing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) that have been adopted in more than 100 countries worldwide. All these efforts together with the internationalization of capital markets and economic growth an accelerated made Brazil a target for potential foreign investors and market analysts who use accounting information for investment analysis. The IFRS adoption in Brazil caused significant impacts on the financial statements of Brazilian companies, upon of adoption by pronouncement CPC 37 equivalent as IFRS 1 of IASB. The present study aims to investigate the overall impacts of the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in the Income Statement of seven companies that comprise the retail segment of textiles, apparel and footwear, as specific objectives to ascertain the impact of the adoption of IFRS on financial statements of the research object, based on your notes and present effects the Income Statement, through a comparison of the main rules that affected the first adoption, as well to answer the central question: What the impacts the process of the IFRS adoption on the Income Statement of companies that comprise the retail segment of textiles, apparel and footwear with shares on the BM&F-BOVESPA?. The research result shows that the process of adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) generated impacts primarily by reclassifying income for the year 2009 for the comparative basis of the first IFRS financial statements published by the companies under study / A constituição do Comitê de Pronunciamentos Contábeis (CPC), seguida pelas Leis 11.638/2007 e 11.941/2009 resultaram em importante momento na contabilidade brasileira. A aprovação das referidas leis, em especial a Lei 11.638/07 representou o marco inicial do processo de convergência das normas brasileiras de contabilidade (BRGAAP) para as normas internacionais de contabilidade (IFRS) do International Accounting Standard Board (IASB), entidade europeia responsável pela emissão das International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) que já foram adotadas em mais de 100 países em todo o mundo. Todos esses esforços, em conjunto com a internacionalização dos mercados de capitais e o crescimento da economia de forma acelerada, fizeram do Brasil um país alvo de potenciais investidores estrangeiros e analistas de mercado que utilizam as informações contábeis para análise de investimentos. A adoção das IFRS como padrão de contabilidade no Brasil causou impactos significativos nas demonstrações contábeis das empresas brasileiras, quando de sua adoção pelo Pronunciamento CPC 37 equivalente a IFRS 1 do IASB. O presente estudo tem por objetivo geral apurar os impactos da adoção das Normas Internacionais de Contabilidade (IFRS) no Resultado do Exercício das sete empresas que compõem o segmento varejista de tecidos, vestuário e calçados e, como objetivos específicos averiguar os impactos da adoção das IFRS nas demonstrações financeiras das empresas objeto da pesquisa, com base nas suas notas explicativas e apresentar os efeitos nos resultados, por meio de um comparativo das principais normas que afetaram a primeira adoção, bem como responder à seguinte questão problema: Quais os impactos causados pelo processo de adoção das IFRS no resultado das empresas do segmento varejista de tecidos, vestuário e calçados com ações na BM&F-BOVESPA? O resultado da pesquisa mostrou que o processo de adoção das Normas Internacionais de Contabilidade (IFRS) gerou impactos principalmente pela reclassificação do Resultado do Exercício de 2009 para a base comparativa das primeiras demonstrações financeiras em IFRS, publicadas pelas empresas objeto de estudo