Accounting standards in Bangladesh are set by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh and are called Bangladesh Financial Reporting Standards (BFRS) and Bangladesh Accounting Standards (BAS). BFRS closely follows International Accounting Standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Board. BAS provides the foundation for preparing financial statements to ensure comparability between periods and companies. According to BAS, financial statements must include a statement of financial position, statement of comprehensive income, statement of changes in equity, statement of cash flows, and notes; and must clearly identify each statement and provide identifying information. Bangladesh accounting standards play a vital role in regulating accounting in the country.
Accounting standards in Bangladesh are set by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh and are called Bangladesh Financial Reporting Standards (BFRS) and Bangladesh Accounting Standards (BAS). BFRS closely follows International Accounting Standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Board. BAS provides the foundation for preparing financial statements to ensure comparability between periods and companies. According to BAS, financial statements must include a statement of financial position, statement of comprehensive income, statement of changes in equity, statement of cash flows, and notes; and must clearly identify each statement and provide identifying information. Bangladesh accounting standards play a vital role in regulating accounting in the country.
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The paper discusses the conceptual framework of Bangladesh accounting standards.
Accounting standards in Bangladesh are set by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh and are called Bangladesh Financial Reporting Standards (BFRS) and Bangladesh Accounting Standards (BAS). BFRS closely follows International Accounting Standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Board. BAS provides the foundation for preparing financial statements to ensure comparability between periods and companies. According to BAS, financial statements must include a statement of financial position, statement of comprehensive income, statement of changes in equity, statement of cash flows, and notes; and must clearly identify each statement and provide identifying information. Bangladesh accounting standards play a vital role in regulating accounting in the country.
Accounting standards in Bangladesh are set by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh and are called Bangladesh Financial Reporting Standards (BFRS) and Bangladesh Accounting Standards (BAS). BFRS closely follows International Accounting Standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Board. BAS provides the foundation for preparing financial statements to ensure comparability between periods and companies. According to BAS, financial statements must include a statement of financial position, statement of comprehensive income, statement of changes in equity, statement of cash flows, and notes; and must clearly identify each statement and provide identifying information. Bangladesh accounting standards play a vital role in regulating accounting in the country.
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Discussion on Bangladesh Accounting Standards
Accounting standards determines the country's accounting regulations and policies
which recommends the content that should be reported in a company's financial statements within that expanse. The core reason for implementing accounting standards is to ensure nationwide adaptation of dependable and consistent accounting approaches. The benefit of applying accounting standards is that it reduces the chances of material misstatement in accounts. Also, it provides comparable information which helps the investor in making better decisions. Accounting standards are set out by a country's law and all the companies existing within the country must maintain them. In Bangladesh, the accounting and reporting standard followed by the companies are BFRS and BAS. Every company within the country, except few exceptions is entailed to apply the standards. Both private and public companies in Bangladesh are controlled by the companies Act 1994, which holds the fundamental rules to be followed by the companies. The institute of chartered Accountants in Bangladesh has set down the financial reporting standards which are called Bangladesh Financial Reporting standards (BFRS) that also includes Bangladesh Accounting standards (BAS). BFRS is a close representation of International Accounting Standards (IAS) which was issued by the International Accounting Standards Board. Initially, the BFRS was built up using older International standards as a basis. At recent times, it has accepted the more updated IASB standards as BFRS. Bangladesh Accounting Standards (BAS) suggests the foundation for the preparation of financial statements as to ensure the information is comparable with the organizations financial statements from prior years of operations and as well with other companies. It provides the requirements of presenting financial statements, principles and rules for the structure and the minimum requisite for the content. In accordance to the BAS, a complete set of financial statement must include: A statement of financial position at period end A statement of comprehensive income for the period
A statement of changes in equity for the period
A statement of cash flows for the period Notes, comprising a summary of significant accounting policies andother explanatory information A statement of financial position as at the beginning of the first period when the company has applied an accounting policy or makes a display of restatement of items in its financial statements, or when it re categorizes items in its financial statements A company should clearly identify each of the required financial statement along with the notes. Furthermore, in order to make the information provided useful and easily understandable, an entity must give significance to including the following information: Name or other identification of the reporting organization and any change from previous year must be notified. It should be mentioned whether the reports belong to an entity or a group of entities. Date of the end period Presentation in currency The rounding that has been used to present the values in preparing the financial accounts. Bangladesh accounting standards plays a vital role in regulating the accounting system in our country. It is important for the procedures to run smoothly and it is greatly helpful to the users of financial reports. The standards displayed by BAS have been modified much more from the time of its commencement and the standards are expected to advance even more in the future.