by John Hughes The speeches by the IASB’s leaders often evoke some tedious game of strategy where every rhetorical point in favour of IFRS is considered to be worth making over and over, even if it accomplishes little more than moving a single piece back and forth between the same two squares. As in some Cold War espionage…
As we summarized here, the IASB has issued IFRS 15, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, effective for annual reporting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2017 (NB this was subsequently amended to January 1, 2018). The new standard is built around a five-step framework, and we discussed the first three of these steps here,…
by John Hughes I often look on Twitter for interesting IFRS-related material, but it’s nearly always a barren exercise. How could it be otherwise, you might ask. But I recently came across the following provocative outburst from one user (if you’re not familiar with the format, it reads from the bottom up): Although the train of…
Some issues around the third step in the IASB’s new framework for recognizing revenue As we summarized here, the IASB has issued IFRS 15, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, effective for annual reporting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2017 (NB this was subsequently amended to January 1, 2018). The new standard is built…
by John Hughes The July issue of IFRIC update set out the Committee’s discussion on a rather strange issue. I’ll paste it here in its entirety: “The submitter observed that there are divergent views on the presentation and content of the condensed statement of cash flows (in interim financial statements). One view is that an entity…
Some issues around the second step in the IASB’s new framework for recognizing revenue As we summarized here, the IASB has issued IFRS 15, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, effective for annual reporting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2017 (NB this was subsequently amended to January 1, 2018). The new standard is built…
by John Hughes Well, the final version of IFRS 9 Financial Instruments has finally been issued, effective for financial years beginning on or after January 1, 2018. These are some of the Standard’s headline achievements, as summed up in the IASB’s press release: Impairment During the financial crisis, the delayed recognition of credit losses on…
Some issues around the first step in the IASB’s new framework for recognizing revenue As we summarized here, the IASB has issued IFRS 15, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, effective for annual reporting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2017 (NB this was subsequently amended to January 1, 2018). The new standard is built…
The Canadian Securities Administrators have issued their latest report on the activities of their continuous disclosure review programs, Staff Notice 51-341, covering the fiscal year ended March 31, 2014, and based on 991 reviews of one kind or another. As so often, the CSA report doesn’t choose to open the window too wide: it states…
The IASB has issued Investment Entities: Applying the Consolidation Exception, an exposure draft of proposed amendments to IFRS 10 and IAS 28, with comments to be received by September 15, 2014. The exposure draft reflects issues that have arisen in applying the IASB’s important conclusion, effective since the beginning of 2014, that an investment entity…
