Translation of "Règles comptables autres que les PCGR " (French → English) :

basis of accounting other than generally accepted accounting principles | ADBA | appropriate disclosed basis of accounting | basis of accounting other than GAAP | comprehensive basis of accounting other than generally accepted accounting principles | comprehensive basis of accounting other than International Accounting Standards or national standards | OCBOA | other comprehensive basis of accounting | other comprehensive financial reporting framework

generally accepted accounting principles | GAAP

departure from GAAP | departure from generally accepted accounting principles

On page five you say that the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants " should conform Canadian accounting rules as much as possible to U.S. GAAP" .

But are the present accounting principles enough or shouldn't we, because of the Year 2000 problem, of new technologies and of transfers of funds everybody was talking about a little earlier, think of establishing some other accounting principles?

I think for the larger clients, that probably makes sense; but for small public companies, the fact is, they generally do not have the in-house accounting talent to prepare a good solid set of GAAP financial statements and, if they do not get the auditors to help them prepare their financial statements and ensure they are done in accordance with GAAP, they either have to find a way to do it in-house, which means the quality of financial reporting may go down rather than up, or they will be forced to hire another firm at significant e ...[+++]xpense to do that work for them.

(13) The power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission to update the definitions laid down in this Decision in the light of changes to definitions adopted by the bodies of the UNFCCC or the Kyoto Protocol or other multilateral agreements relevant to climate change concluded by the Union, to amend Annex I to add accounting periods and ensure consistency between those accounting periods and the relevant periods adopted by the bodies of the UNFCCC, or other multilateral agreement relevant to climate change concluded by the Union, to amend Annex ...[+++] II with updated reference levels in accordance with the proposed reference levels submitted by Member States subject to corrections made in accordance with this Decision and in the light of changes to reference levels approved by the bodies of the UNFCCC or the Kyoto Protocol, to revise the information specified in Annex III in accordance with scientific progress and in the light of changes adopted by the bodies of the UNFCCC or the Kyoto Protocol or other successor frameworks and to revise the conditions relating to the accounting rules for natural disturbances laid down in this Decision in the light of scientific progress or to reflect revisions to acts adopted by the UNFCCC or Kyoto Protocol bodies.