Here are some extracts from the keynote speech at the recent IFRS Foundation conference, by Saker Nusseibeh, CEO of Federated Hermes Limited He returns to the theme at the end: But when I came across the above, I couldn’t help thinking about the following portion of Louis CK’s recent stand-up special Ridiculous (on Netflix): Well,…

Let’s return to the IFRS 18 concept of management-defined performance measures. You’ll recall that the new standard defines such a measure as ‘a subtotal of income and expenses that an entity uses in public communications outside financial statements; to communicate to users of financial statements management’s view of an aspect of the financial performance of…

As part of its activities, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) organizes a forum of enforcers from 38 different European jurisdictions, all of whom carry out monitoring and review programs similar to those carried out here by the Canadian Securities Administrators. ESMA a while ago published some extracts from its confidential database of enforcement…

Reuters reported the following on June 5: It had previously been reported that the aforementioned firm Dexus said it wouldn’t allow KPMG Australia’s chief operating officer to “be the signing partner – the registered auditor who attests that a company’s financial results reflect a true and fair view of its financial performance – for its…

Hub Group, Inc. reported the following in February of this year: A few months later, the contagion spread further: The “national shareholder rights law firm” Hagens Berman got right on it: This triggered some fairly predictable commentary, for instance: Well, yes. One notes though that as the Hub Group story continued to unfold, the market…

Let’s return to our coverage of Pope Leo I’m joking – no disrespect, but the Holy Father and his predecessors haven’t typically been within this blog’s zone of interest. But the recent encyclical letter on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence touches on a few areas we’ve covered in the past.…

The IFRS Foundation recently issued an update on the appointment of its new chair: But if it’s going so well, you might ask, why the gap in transition? My understanding, based on information received from my mole in the organization, is that the chosen successor was initially reluctant to assume the post, and that it…

The Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame has announced its latest group of inductees. There are only four, by far the smallest number to date (last year there were six; there were eight in the year before that). In the “founders of the profession” category, there’s Kenneth Le Mesurier Carter, summarized as follows: He died in…

As we covered here, IFRIC recently discussed a fact pattern relating to reassessing control. In the fact pattern, the governing document of an investee controlled by an entity is amended in a way that could result in a change in the investee’s relevant activities, as well as in the rights of the entity and other…

As we’ve covered in the past, one of the major aspects of the new standard IFRS 18 Presentation and Disclosure in Financial Statements, applicable for periods beginning on or after January 1, 2027, is its approach to disclosing “management-defined performance measures.” IFRS 18 describes such a measure as a subtotal of income and expenses (excluding…