As we’ve addressed many times previously, the International Sustainability Standards Board 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 S2 exposure draft proposes industry-based disclosure requirements derived from the existing SASB Standards (these aren’t included in the body of…

IASB publishes its review of classification and measurement requirements relating to financial instruments, announced a recent release. Here are some extracts: The PIR provides the following overall comments on classification and measurement: Of course, in the absence of further detail, it’s possible that some of the companies in that latter group just didn’t have the…

As we’ve addressed many times, the International Sustainability Standards Board 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. Last time we looked at the exposure draft’s absence of a definition for the central term “sustainability-related,” leading to a recent…

As we’ve addressed many times, the International Sustainability Standards Board 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 core objective of S1 “is to require an entity to disclose information about its significant sustainability-related risks and opportunities that…

It’s time now for another selection of tweets that made mention of IFRS in some form, presented here in their original form, all typos and oddities and possible obscenities intact. I’ve been providing these compilations periodically for years, based on my regular scanning of Twitter for useful information, and to be honest it’s never been…

A new source of acronym-related fun! We’ve often noted examples in this space of “IFRS” being used as an acronym for something other than what we accountants know it to mean, some from real life and some, well, which I made up myself. We can now start supplementing this with examples of “ISSB” being used…

Courtesy of my mole at the International Sustainability Standards Board (this is not the same person as my mole at the International Accounting Standards Board, although the two of them do often meet up for coffee) I now present a selection of recent correspondence to and from the office of the Chair, Emmanuel Faber. You…

Canadian Accountant magazine recently reported that the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) has announced its 2022 inductees into the Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame (CAHF). The story notes: “Among the 11 new inductees are selections that have addressed omissions and missed opportunities noted by Canadian Accountant. The CAAA has addressed the notable lack of gender diversity that occurred…

The University of Waterloo’s Impact Centre on Climate Adaptation has published Getting Nature on the Balance Sheet: Recognizing the Financial Value provided by Natural Assets in a Changing Climate. The credited authors are Joanna Eyquem, Bailey Church, Roy Brooke and Michelle Molnar. The report focuses on the challenge of “mainstreaming recognition of the role and…

While the shining new International Sustainability Standards Board scoops up all the change-making attention, maybe the most the IASB can hope for is to get noticed for not shaking things up too much. This is from a recent news release: You may recall that the discussion paper referred to there concluded “that there is no…