Conrad Black’s one-time globe-spanning profile has faded in recent years… His Canadian visibility now is mostly confined to his regular opinion column in the National Post, notable for its style-challenged unreadability and for its barely qualified assessment of Donald Trump as a great American President (“ Is there any sane person who in the dark and…

Should accountants worry about cryptocurrencies? asks a recent edition of ICAEW Insights. The article asked a few questions of “crypto entrepreneur” Mark Basa, whose comments include the following: If a country considers any profit as earnings – even if a cryptocurrency doesn’t have enough liquidity for its owner to withdraw – that could lead clients…

As we’ve addressed many times, the International Sustainability Standards Board has 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 some reaction to the following proposal in S2: An entity shall disclose information that enables…

As we’ve addressed many times, the International Sustainability Standards Board has 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. A key aspect of the S2 document is the following proposed requirement: An entity shall disclose information that enables users…

“IASB proposes temporary relief from deferred tax accounting for OECD Pillar Two taxes,” announced a recent release Here are some extracts: The (IASB) has today proposed amendments to IAS 12 Income Taxes. The proposed amendments aim to provide temporary relief from accounting for deferred taxes arising from the imminent implementation of the Pillar Two model rules published by…

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: Feedback from stakeholders and research undertaken as part of the PIR show that the requirements set out in IFRS 9 are working as intended and provide useful information to the users of financial statements.…

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…