IFRS AND INDIAN GAAP: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

When a new accounting standard adopt by a country for its own domestic companies for reporting their financial statement, it may be impact on the quantitative as well as qualitative attributes of financial statements. IFRS become a global reporting language. Therefore India is keen to adopt it and make it mandatory for its own interest. In this study, the main purpose is to make a parallel comparison between IFRS and Indian GAAP and documented the basic difference between these two standards. It helps to find out the effects of IFRS adoption on the financial statements and market value, prepared by Indian Companies. To find out the statistical significant of the above stated activities, proper statistical test (Wilcoxon Signed Rank, regression, correlation) has been applied.