Accounting Standards Review Board (ASRB) is a body set up to review and approve financial reporting standards in New Zealand. It was formed by the Financial Reporting Act of 1993
ASRB can have between four to seven members. The Governor General of New Zealand on the recommendation of the Minister of Commerce appoints the members by virtue of their knowledge and experience in law, finance, business, economics and accounting.
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“I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.”
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—Ruth E. Zambrana, U.S. researcher, M. Hurst, and R.L. Hite. “The Working Mother in Contemporary Perspectives: A Review of Literature,” Pediatrics (December 1979)
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—H.L. (Henry Lewis)