America’s Business Roundtable has issued the following Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation: Americans deserve an economy that allows each person to succeed through hard work and creativity and to lead a life of meaning and dignity. We believe the free-market system is the best means of generating good jobs, a strong and sustainable…
A recent commentary in the Globe and Mail, by Philippe Le Houérou and Paul Lamontagne, kicks off as follows: Across the world, the appetite for impact investing is growing. The prospect of investing in funds that deliver solid financial returns while doing good can be appealing, especially for young investors who are showing an increasing…
When the IFRIC decides not to initiative a new project in response to a submitted question, it issues a tentative agenda decision for comment, setting out its reasons. If nothing new comes out of the comments, it usually confirms its decision and publishes a new agenda decision, often including various explanatory material. The IFRS Foundation’s…
As we discussed last time, the IASB has issued for comment Disclosure of Accounting Policies, an exposure draft of proposed amendments to IAS 1 and IFRS Practice Statement 2, with comments to be received by November 29, 2019. IAS 1 currently requires that an entity disclose its “significant” accounting policies. The exposure draft proposes changing this…
The IASB has issued for comment Disclosure of Accounting Policies, an exposure draft of proposed amendments to IAS 1 and IFRS Practice Statement 2, with comments to be received by November 29, 2019. IAS 1 currently requires that an entity disclose its “significant” accounting policies, a requirement that often leads in practice to pages of…
(Well, sometimes there’s no point trying to think of a catchy title…) The IASB has issued for comment Deferred Tax related to Assets and Liabilities arising from a Single Transaction, an exposure draft of proposed amendments to IAS 12, with comments to be received by November 14, 2019 The exposure draft expresses itself primarily with…
I seldom need to dive into the intricacies of IFRS 2, and find that when I do, many of the concepts have invariably grown fuzzy. since the last time. I previously summed it up this way: IFRS 2 is built more clearly than old Canadian GAAP was on the assumption that since no one gets…
A recent article by Richard Murphy on the Accounting Web site “explains why a new IFRS for tax is necessary, and why accountants have a duty to society to help companies explain their tax payments.” The article is primarily focused on the lack of country by country reporting for tax matters. It cites various existing…
My favourite recent news release from the IFRS Foundation was certainly the announcement that the Foundation has decided to review its cleaning contract… In strangely but endearingly personal terms, it said: “This letter is to invite you to put forward a proposal for the work outlined below.” It set out a list of twelve bulleted…
Here’s the full text of a news release recently issued by the IFRS Foundation: The world’s leading financial and non-financial corporate reporting frameworks have the same common foundations, based on the key objectives of transparency and accountability, according to a position paper published by the framework providers today. The position paper sets out the seven…
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