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...a group in New York City consisting of 114 professional accounting bodies; the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC), which was founded in London in 1973 and succeeded by the IASB in 2001; and arms of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and of the European Economic Community.
In some countries these concepts or principles are prescribed by government bodies, and other guidance is obtained from the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), an independent standard-setting organization based in the United Kingdom. In the United States the principles are embodied in generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), which represent partly the consensus of experts...
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