Here’s the main text of a recent news release issued by the Ontario Securities Commission: The news release received what was presumably the intended press coverage, with the Globe and Mail noting that while the release didn’t name any names, “Canadian or U.S. affiliates of three of the Big Four global firms – Deloitte LLP,…

One of the Hottest Trends in the World of Investing is a Sham announces the title of a recent opinion piece in the New York Times It’s written by Hans Taparia, a “a clinical associate professor at the New York University Stern School of Business and a former entrepreneur.” Here are some extracts: Indeed, the…

The IASB recently discussed some potential amendments to the contractual cash flow characteristics requirements in IFRS 9 Financial Instruments. We’ve already addressed some potential amendments to clarify some of the underlying principles of the solely payments of principal and interest (‘SPPI’) assessment. You’ll recall that IFRS 9 is based on the premise that amortized cost…

As we addressed here, the International Sustainability Standards Board has issued its first two exposure drafts, General Sustainability-related Disclosures (S1) and Climate-related Disclosures (S2), which were both open for comment until July 29, 2022. The general exposure draft proposes that an entity be required to report its sustainability-related financial disclosures at the same time as…

The IASB recently discussed some potential amendments to the contractual cash flow characteristics requirements in IFRS 9 Financial Instruments. The purpose of these would be to clarify some of the underlying principles of the “solely payments of principal and interest” (‘SPPI’) assessment. Feedback from the post-implementation review of IFRS 9 had indicated “that the IASB…

One of CPA Canada’s less adroit recent moments was as follows: The first part of the message is just conventional platitude, but still of a kind that a rational, forward-looking Canadian organization should have been able to avoid. The second part is rather more damagingly revealing. A4S, its website reminds us, “was established by HM…