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What are financial accounting standards?

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What are financial accounting standards?

Financial accounting standards are defined rules or principals governing the accounting of economic transactions. They are usually issued by a country’s own accounting standards board or similar neutral organization. One of the main objectives of accounting standards is to facilitate the comparability of financial statements across companies.

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