Accounting Section - Doing Business

Explore a series of summaries providing an overview of useful accounting regulations, processes and accounting issues for doing business in Thailand.

Recognizing revenue from the sale of real estate

According to Chapter 19 of the Thai Financial Reporting Standards for Non-publically Accountable Entities (TFRS for NPAEs), there are 3 categories of revenue from the sale of real estate.

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Thai Financial Reporting Standard for SMEs

As previously reported, the Federation of Accounting Professions (“FAP”) is currently in the process of adopting IFRS for SMEs in full without modification, to be known as the Thai Financial Reporting Standard for SMEs (“TFRS for SMEs”), with an expected effective date of 2017.

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Revenue recognition

TAS 18 sets the recognition principles that shall be applied in accounting for revenue.

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Accounting policies, estimates and errors

Under TAS 8 and TFRS for NPAEs, changes in accounting consist of:
(a) changes in accounting policies;
(b) changes in accounting estimates; and
(c) corrections of errors made in prior periods.

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Accounting under the AEC

The Handbook “Liberalisation of Professional Services through Mutual Recognition in ASEAN: Accountancy Services” provides guidance on the liberalisation of professional services in ASEAN.

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