California Financial Code

§ 463

FIN § 463 Effective Jan 1, 2012Div. 1 · Ch. 4

Statute text

(a)All references in this code and the Corporations Code to financial statements, balance sheets, income statements, and statements of changes in financial position of a licensee, and all references to assets, liabilities, earnings, retained earnings, shareholders’ equity, net worth, and similar accounting items of a licensee, mean those financial statements or those items prepared or determined in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles then applicable in the United States, fairly presenting in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles accepted in the United States the matters which they purport to present, subject to any specific accounting treatment required by any applicable provision of the Corporations Code, this code, or any regulation, order issued by the commissioner, or agreement entered into by the commissioner and a licensee.

(b)The commissioner may, by regulation or order, require that any financial statement or accounting item of a licensee be prepared or determined in a manner other than in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles accepted in the United States if the commissioner finds that such other manner is necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes or provisions of this code.

Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 2. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.