International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS): IFRS are a set of international accounting standards which are framed, approved, and published by International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) for the preparation and disclosure of international financial reports.
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP): These are the guidelines necessary to create accounting principles for the implementation of financial information reporting in the Country U.
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB): FASB is the organization which creates, develops, and approves accounting standards; and administrates GAAP.
Securities Exchange Commission (SEC): This is the government agency that governs the working of FASB and financial markets in the Country U.
To examine: The differences between (A) adoption of IFRS by Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), and (B) convergence of GAAP with IFRS
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