Monday, January 16, 2012

UNITED NATIONS INTERGOVERNMENTAL Working GROUP OF Authorities ON INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS OF ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING (ISAR)

ISAR was made in 1982 and is the only intergovernmental operating group devoted to accounting and auditing at the corporate level. “ISAR assists establishing countries and economies in transition to implement very best practices in corporate transparency and accounting in an effort to facilitate investment flows and economic development. ISAR achieves this by way of an integrated approach of analysis, intergovernmental consensus constructing, info dissemination, and technical cooperation.”34 ISAR discusses and publishes greatest practices, which includes those proposed by the IASB.

ISAR was an early proponent of environmental reporting, and latest initiatives have focused on IFRS implementation, corporate governance, disclosure, corporate responsibility reporting, and accounting by modest and medium-sized enterprises. It has also conducted technical help projects in a quantity of places, for instance accounting reform and retraining within the Russian Federation, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan, and designing and producing a long-distance finding out system in accountancy for Frenchspeaking Africa. Its ISAR Update is published twice a year.

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