The study aims to reveal that a valid and effective standard, which formerly issued, may reflect the needs and expectation of few interested powerful bodies due to the neutral comments and dearth of lobbyists in the process of setting the standard.
The research investigates the working of the IASB, by exploring the standard setting process specifically in relation to the standard on business combinations which has been on the agenda over an extended period of time. The written submissions in response to 14 issues, proposed in Exposure Draft 61 (1997), to revise IAS 22 âBusiness Combinationâ are analysed to understand whether various comments from different interested parties deliberately affect IASBâs decision. The situations in which any of the lobbyists (e.g. Anglo-American bodies) may exert influence are discussed.
The results confirm an overall support to the proposed issues by the participants. So there was a satisfactory degree of consensus between the lobbyists involved in IAS 22 in favour of what the IASB was attempting to do. It may raise our concerns about the effectiveness of the deliberation method in the process of setting IASs. This provides us evidence that the IASB acted independently and made its decisions rationally. However a managed type of consensus was seen, which is consistent with the covert view of excreting power and mimetic isomorphism, as a result of insufficiency of respondents and large numbers of neutral comments on the outcome of the consultation process. It then justifies the needs for a revision of the standard once more as happened in IFRS 3.
Mahdavi, G. , Doost-Hosseini, K. and Khoshtinat, M. (2014). Political Consensus Through Setting International Accounting Standards Case of Ias 22. International Economics Studies, 44(1), 37-54. doi: 10.22108/ies.2014.15573
MLA
Mahdavi, G. , , Doost-Hosseini, K. , and Khoshtinat, M. . "Political Consensus Through Setting International Accounting Standards Case of Ias 22", International Economics Studies, 44, 1, 2014, 37-54. doi: 10.22108/ies.2014.15573
HARVARD
Mahdavi, G., Doost-Hosseini, K., Khoshtinat, M. (2014). 'Political Consensus Through Setting International Accounting Standards Case of Ias 22', International Economics Studies, 44(1), pp. 37-54. doi: 10.22108/ies.2014.15573
CHICAGO
G. Mahdavi , K. Doost-Hosseini and M. Khoshtinat, "Political Consensus Through Setting International Accounting Standards Case of Ias 22," International Economics Studies, 44 1 (2014): 37-54, doi: 10.22108/ies.2014.15573
VANCOUVER
Mahdavi, G., Doost-Hosseini, K., Khoshtinat, M. Political Consensus Through Setting International Accounting Standards Case of Ias 22. International Economics Studies, 2014; 44(1): 37-54. doi: 10.22108/ies.2014.15573