The IFRS Foundation is continuing to develop its revised practice statement on management commentary, with an exposure draft expected later in the year. A recent meeting of the project’s consultative group focused on the meaning of the phrase “management’s view.” The current draft of the practice statement refers to the concept in the following passages:…
At a recent meeting of the Accounting Standards Advisory Forum, the group discussed the ongoing Management Commentary project. Among the issues set out in the underlying agenda paper was the staff’s proposal “that the revised Practice Statement will describe how management could apply (various) aspects of neutrality that could alter a user’s assessments.” The concept…
PWC maintains a section on its website devoted to SEC comment letter trends. Of course, the issues raised in these letters relate primarily to US GAAP rather than to IFRS, but given the commonality between the two, they might often be relevant either in anticipating questions that might be posed by regulators elsewhere or, even…
From the integratedreporting.org website, we learn that the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer in Deutschland) has released a position paper on the future of corporate reporting. It’s only available in German, but one of the authors provides an English-language summary. We’ve covered a couple of the main points before. First is the contention that…
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…
Let’s return to our recent reflections on how an entity might manifest “character” in its financial reporting. The Canadian National Instrument 51-102F1 says in the second paragraph of its introductory section that the issuer’s objective when preparing an MD&A includes “openly reporting bad news as well as good news.” Of course, in corporate reporting as…
“FRC Lab report confirms the importance of business model disclosure to investors,” announces a recent news release: Here’s more: “The Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) Financial Reporting Lab has published a report on Business Model Reporting which provides valuable insight for companies on the importance of business model information to investors, and the type of information they are…
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales have issued the latest in a series of “Audit Insights” documents, this one focused on “Improving annual reports of listed companies.” Some of the content covers matters addressed on this blog several times in the past, for example in commenting on materiality and disclosure overload, and…
The OSC has issued OSC Staff Notice 51-724 Report on Staff’s Review of REIT Distributions Disclosure. Here’s the summary from the news release: Real estate investment trusts (REITs) provide investors with cash flow in the form of distributions. However, REITs are subject to a number of factors that may negatively affect their cash available for…
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