The Financial Reporting Standards Council (FRSC)

The Financial Reporting Standards Council (FRSC) was established by the Board of Accountancy (BOA or the Board) in 2006 under the Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Philippine Accountancy of Act of 2004 to assist the Board in carrying out its power and function to promulgate accounting standards in the Philippines. The FRSC’s main function is to establish generally accepted accounting principles in the Philippines.

The FRSC is the successor of the Accounting Standards Council (ASC). The ASC was created in November 1981 by the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) to establish generally accepted accounting principles in the Philippines. The FRSC carries on the decision made by the ASC to converge Philippine accounting standards with international accounting standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)...read more

Source: PICPA-FRSC