As we addressed here, the Canadian Sustainability Standards Board issued for comment its first two proposed standards. These are proposed Canadian Sustainability Disclosure Standard (CSDS) 1 General Requirements for Disclosure of Sustainability-related Financial Information and CSDS 2 Climate-related Disclosures, built on the pre-existing IFRS S1 and S2. One major issue is whether issuers should be…
Yet another reflection on accounting’s current woes… This is by Matt Levine on Bloomberg.com, titled Accounting isn’t Cool Anymore. The article (which draws heavily on an underlying article on Business Insider) quotes a retired accountant as saying that “”The pay is crappy, the hours are long, and the work is drudgery,” and notes that “Students…
As we addressed here, the Canadian Sustainability Standards Board issued for comment its first two proposed standards. These are proposed Canadian Sustainability Disclosure Standard (CSDS) 1 General Requirements for Disclosure of Sustainability-related Financial Information and CSDS 2 Climate-related Disclosures, built on the pre-existing IFRS S1 and S2; the CSSB didn’t propose any major changes to…
Let’s check in on the latest in Canada’s accounting wars… You may recall that in Canada the provincial organizations are the accounting profession’s regulators and enforcers, with the national organization, CPA Canada, responsible for standards and for coordinating education and exams, among other things. Over a year ago now, CPA Ontario and CPA Quebec announced…
As we covered here, the IASB has issued Climate-related and Other Uncertainties in the Financial Statements, an exposure draft of proposed illustrative examples. The exposure draft “proposes eight examples illustrating how an entity applies the requirements in IFRS Accounting Standards to report the effects of climate-related and other uncertainties in its financial statements (in the…
Returning to our recent reflections on the portrayal of accountants in movies and television… You may recall that Toby York, founder of The Accounting Café, had posted the following on LinkedIn: A partial answer to the question arises from the ongoing third season of Industry, a show set around Pierpoint & Co., a London investment…
As we addressed here, the Canadian Sustainability Standards Board issued for comment its first two proposed standards. These are proposed Canadian Sustainability Disclosure Standard (CSDS) 1 General Requirements for Disclosure of Sustainability-related Financial Information and CSDS 2 Climate-related Disclosures, built on the pre-existing IFRS S1 and S2; the CSSB didn’t propose any major changes to…
The IASB has issued Climate-related and Other Uncertainties in the Financial Statements, an exposure draft of proposed illustrative examples. The exposure draft “proposes eight examples illustrating how an entity applies the requirements in IFRS Accounting Standards to report the effects of climate-related and other uncertainties in its financial statements (in the expectation) that these illustrative…
As we discussed here, in March 2024 the IASB published for comment the Exposure Draft Business Combinations—Disclosures, Goodwill and Impairment. Let’s look at one last aspect of the reaction to the exposure draft. As we covered here, the exposure draft includes proposals for additional disclosure requirements addressing, for so-called “strategic” business combinations, objectives and related performance…
Canadian Accountant recently published some material on the voting preferences of accountants. That was on July 21, which probably still counts as recent, but the article already feels like something of a historical artifact, given Biden’s subsequent withdrawal from the race and the astounding revitalization of the Democratic campaign. Anyway, here’s what it had to…
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