An SEC Commissioner comments on the reconciliation

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06 Mar 2006

In remarks before the Tenth Annual Conference on (PDF 37k), US SEC Commissioner Cynthia Glassman spoke about, among other things, convergence of US GAAP and IFRSs and eliminating the SEC's required reconciliation.

An excerpt:

The other significant issue on the international accounting front is reconciliation. As you well know, in their SEC filings, companies that use IFRS or other accounting standards have to reconcile their financial statements to U.S. GAAP. I fully support what has become known as the 'roadmap' to achieving the acceptance of IFRS in the U.S. without reconciliation. Basically, our staff is looking to see the nature and scope of the reconciliations and the consistency of IFRS implementation across countries. While our staff has already begun planning the initial phase of the roadmap, we really cannot get started evaluating the 2005 results of the IFRS/U.S. GAAP reconciliations until mid-year, because IFRS has only been recently implemented in many countries for the first time.

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