Nowadays I think about movies much more than I do about accounting… …which might be occasionally evident from this blog (see for example here and here). A February 13, 2024 speech by SEC Chair Gary Gensler, titled “AI, Finance, Movies, and the Law,” suggests his attention is sometimes distracted along similar lines. Here are some…

The IASB has issued the Exposure Draft Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Equity—Proposed amendments to IAS 32, IFRS 7 and IAS 1, with a comment deadline of March 29, 2024. We previously looked at the aspects of the exposure draft relating to the “fixed-for-fixed” criterion and to settlement in an entity’s own equity instruments. The exposure…

“Typo in Lyft earnings sends shares aloft nearly 70%,” announced a recent CBS News story. Here’s what it had to say: The coverage on Forbes.com added the following perspective: Forbes notes for background that “according to market research firm YipitData, (Lyft) has held around 30% of the US rideshare market compared with 70% for Uber…

As helpfully summarized by the Canadian Press, “CPA Canada was created in 2013 to unify the various professional accounting organizations across the country. (The) provincial organizations are regulators and enforcers of the profession, while the national organization is responsible for standards and co-ordinates education and the common exam written by all would-be CPAs, among other…

Among other things, IFRS 8.23 requires disclosing a measure of profit or loss for each reportable segment, and provides a list of items to be disclosed about each reportable segment “if the specified amounts are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker, or are otherwise regularly…

Let’s return to IFRIC’s recent tentative agenda decision on climate-related commitments. As we addressed here, the agenda decision states that an entity’s commitment to reduce or offset its greenhouse gas emissions could in some circumstances create a constructive obligation that meets the criteria under IAS 37 for recognizing a provision. Some commenters saw this as…

As we addressed here, the IASB has issued the Exposure Draft Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Equity—Proposed amendments to IAS 32, IFRS 7 and IAS 1, with a comment deadline of March 29, 2024. We previously looked at the aspects of the exposure draft relating to the “fixed-for-fixed” criterion. Here’s another one. IAS 32 currently contains…

As we covered here, the IASB recently called for stakeholder feedback to inform its review of the accounting standard for revenue from contracts with customers, IFRS 15. This is part of the regular post-implementation review process “to assess whether the effects of applying the new requirements on users of financial statements, preparers, auditors and regulators are…

Implicitly underlying much of the conversation about ISSB, and about the “green transition” in general, is the assumption that capitalism and sustainability can be aligned, that if we have good enough information and are sufficiently focused and skillful, we can solve our existential challenges while still ensuring satisfactory (perhaps even enhanced) returns on existing capital…

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 recently published some extracts from its confidential database of enforcement decisions on…