How helpful are financial statements in the new economy? A recent blog post took off from the following premise: With only 20% of companies’ market value found in the tangible assets in the financial statements, it is no wonder companies around the world are increasingly using the International <IR> Framework to support integrated thinking and help…
I tuned in a bit late to the EFRAG discussion paper Goodwill impairment test: can it be improved?, which was published last June As always with such a title, there’s very little likelihood that the answer would turn out to be, basically, no it can’t. The paper – which is timely as the IASB is…
Let’s look at another recent disclosure about the impact of IFRS 15. Here’s an extract from what SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. had to say: Let’s pick out a few of the items there: Variable consideration We’ve noted before that an entity doesn’t include any amount of variable consideration in the transaction price unless “it is highly…
As we addressed here, the IASB has published for public consultation proposed narrow-scope amendments to IAS 8 Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors, open for comment until January 15, 2018. As the comment period has recently closed, we’ll continue to look at some of the responses. You’ll recall that IAS 8 in its current form…
These blog entries don’t usually lift such a big block of text from somewhere else, but in the circumstances it seems like the best way to go… This is from the December 31, 2017 annual financial statements of Bombardier Inc. It might be concluded from all this that if Bombardier didn’t exist, students of IFRS…
It’s easy sometimes for accountants to imagine (or at least, to pretend they imagine) that the parameters of periodic corporate reporting are largely defined by those of the financial statements, with the MD&A as a tacked-on outgrowth… Most accountants are presumably aware, at least vaguely, of the conversations about integrated reporting and ESG disclosures and…
Here’s another issue considered a while ago by CPA Canada’s IFRS Discussion Group: “A reporting entity’s (the “Parent Entity”) operations consist of the exploration for and evaluation of mineral property interests. The Parent Entity’s mineral property portfolio consists of interests located in two countries – Country A and Country B. The mineral properties are held…
As we addressed here, the IASB published for public consultation proposed narrow-scope amendments to IAS 8 Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors, open for comment until January 15, 2018. As the comment period has recently closed, we’ll take a look at some of the responses. First, to recap, IAS 8 in its current form defines…
The recent post on reporting about key audit matters caused me to start reflecting on the value of audit more broadly… In that earlier post, I quoted a Swiss Deloitte publication as follows: “A more relevant report may improve the user’s interest in the auditor’s report and their understanding of the audit, adding to the…
I wrote last April about valuing marijuana crops under IFRS, and I probably felt at the time that once would be enough, but the issue continues to have a visibility greatly out of proportion to its relative significance… A couple of weeks ago, two high-profile articles appeared in the Canadian press within a day or…
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