The due process approach allows any interested parties to express their view about any issue being considered by the FASB
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explain accounting policy involves politics?
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
The setting of accounting standards and best practices is not political in nature. It is intended to ensure integrity and consistency throughout the profession.
Accounting and financial reporting guidance is provided not only by the two major accounting standards-setting bodies, but also by the AICPA, the staffs of the accounting standards-setting bodies, and even professional literature. Because of the heavy workloads of the standards-setting bodies, they may not have issued guidance on a particular issue of concern to a practitioner. A hierarchy of generally accepted accounting principles allows a practitioner to look to the guidance of other bodies in the event the Board with jurisdiction has not issued a standard on a particular matter.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) was founded in 1973 and was the very first international standards-setting board that was ever founded.