Definition of genre. 1  1 : a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content a classic of the gothic novel genre. 2  2 : kind, sort. 3  3 : painting that depicts scenes or events from everyday life usually realistically.
In 1973, the Accounting Principles Board was replaced by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) under the supervision of the Financial Accounting Foundation with the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council serving to advise and provide input on the accounting standards.
The SIA was established in 2003 under the Private Security Industry Act 2001. In 2010, it was announced that a number of public bodies were to be changed. The SIA was one of these, and the government said that it would transition into a new regulatory regime, although the exact nature of this is unclear.