Wiley International Trends in Financial Reporting under IFRS: Including Comparisons with US GAAP, Chinese GAAP, and Indian GAAP

Acknowledgments

This book is the result of hard work of several months, and we are very happy that it is being made available to readers in record time. We wish to place on record our sincere appreciation for the efforts of those people who have helped us in this initiative.

We wish to thank all the wonderful people who have contributed to this publication, which includes our families to whom we are ever grateful for their patience and support offered to us during these trying times when this book was being conceptualized, written, edited, and published.

As mentioned earlier, we also thank the management of the companies that allowed us to use extracts from their financial statements.

Kevin Stevenson, chairman of the Asian Oceanic Standards Setters Group and chairman and chief executive of the Australian Accounting Board (formerly director of technical affairs at the IASB and a chairman of the International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee) has been a great source of inspiration for this project. He provided invaluable technical advice and excellent suggestions on several issues relating to this publication. We wish to place on record our sincere appreciation for his timely advice on technical issues and for all his support.

Our gratitude goes to Ms. Shen Jie, a partner at PwC, China for having reviewed the Appendix on comparison of IFRS to Chinese GAAP.

We are extremely thankful to Professor Arif Ahmed, Veena Hingarh, Gang Leng, and Joanne Flood, who ably contributed ...