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…

As we discussed here, in March 2024 the IASB published for comment the Exposure Draft Business Combinations—Disclosures, Goodwill and Impairment. As we previously covered, the exposure draft rejected some of the more ambitious ideas mooted in the past, such as reintroducing amortization of goodwill, focusing instead on fine-tuning the methodology for impairment testing and introducing additional…

Let’s return to the Inside Standard Setting newsletter of the Chair of Canada’s Accounting Standards Board, Armand Capisciolto. The author’s obvious love of baseball is becoming a rather charming recurring element. Here’s a recent example: In Capisciolto’s hands, such potentially dodgy analogies seem happily unstrained, lyrical even. My own knowledge of baseball would fit onto…

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) recently concluded its Post-implementation Review of the impairment requirements in IFRS 9 Financial Instruments—Impairment and published a Project Summary and Feedback Statement. Here’s the summary of conclusions: They note along the way: “Many preparers said the principles allow them to align the approaches to assessing significant increases in credit risk…

As we discussed here, in March 2024 the IASB published for comment the Exposure Draft Business Combinations—Disclosures, Goodwill and Impairment. In the exposure draft, the IASB (among other things) addressed some reasons for concerns that impairment losses on goodwill are sometimes being recognized too late, including: The exposure draft proposes amending IAS 36 to clarify that…

The New York Times recently published a piece titled Dilemma on Wall Street: Short-Term Gain or Climate Benefit? It’s written by Lydia DePillis. Here are some extracts: The article notes that “it’s difficult to steer a portfolio to climate-friendly assets while other funds take on polluting companies and reap short-term profits for impatient clients…. without…

As we discussed here, in March 2024 the IASB published for comment the Exposure Draft Business Combinations—Disclosures, Goodwill and Impairment. As we previously covered, the exposure draft rejected some of the more ambitious ideas mooted in the past, such as reintroducing amortization of goodwill, focusing instead on fine-tuning the methodology for impairment testing and introducing additional…

As a special warm weather treat, it’s time now for another in our long-running series of extracts from real-life tweets (as they used to be called – I suppose I should now say “posts on X,” or some comparable absurdity) that made some mention of IFRS, presented here in their original form, all oddity and…

You’ll recall that following amendments to IAS 1 in 2022, an entity classifies a liability as current when, among other things, it does not have the right at the end of the reporting period to defer settlement of the liability for at least twelve months after the reporting period. The standard specifies that if the right to defer…

Canada’s Globe and Mail recently published, on the same day, a couple of interestingly contrasting opinion pieces. The first, titled Small companies risk buckling under the burdens of mandatory sustainability reporting, was by Andrew McLaughlin. Here are some extracts: The second article, titled How many LGBTQ+ corporate directors does Canada have? We investigated, was by…