I came across an interesting article by Gediminas Ziemelis: New IFRS for airlines with provisions for virus impact? The article sets out the heavy impact of the ongoing pandemic on the airline industry, one in which – as has been quite widely commented upon – “some airlines announced dividends to shareholders from last year’s profit…
The IASB recently issued Annual Improvements to IFRS Standards 2018-2020. There are only four items (proving once again that it was almost perfect already). Here they are. Financial instruments IFRS 9 regards an exchange of debt instruments with substantially different terms between an existing borrower and a lender as an extinguishment of the original financial liability…
No, relax – I’m only joking. What actually happened is that the IASB recently issued Property, Plant and Equipment: Proceeds before Intended Use, a limited-scope amendment to IAS 16. It focuses on one of the examples provided in IAS 16.17 of “directly attributable costs” of an item of property, plant and equipment, which are included…
The IASB has issued a project summary on its research into discount rates Here’s how it summed things up: Some IFRS Standards require or allow companies to use different discount rates for estimating future cash flows. In some cases, the differences are clearly justified because they reflect different risk factors or circumstances. In other cases, the reasons…
The IASB has issued Onerous Contracts— Cost of Fulfilling a Contract, an exposure draft of proposed amendments to IAS 37, with comments to be received by April 15, 2019. I recall that when Canada was making the conversion to IFRS, the “onerous contract” requirements of IAS 37 received a disproportionate amount of attention in summaries…
Here’s an issue discussed a while ago in Viewpoints: Applying IFRS in the Mining Industry – Accounting for Decommissioning Liabilities Assumed in a Business Combination, a document issued by the Mining Industry Task Force on IFRSs of CPA Canada and the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada: “Mining entities often acquire projects directly or through the acquisition…
IFRIC has issued a draft interpretation, Uncertainty over Income Tax Treatments, with comments to be received by January 19, 2016 An uncertain tax treatment for purposes of the draft interpretation is one where uncertainty exists “over whether the taxation authority will accept a specific tax treatment under the tax law,” for example where the acceptability…
Is it possible to imagine a principles-based accounting system where all the principles set out for different items perfectly align with each other…? …maybe a system where everything is measured at fair value, and all the changes go through a single measure of profit or loss? Of course, such a system would bring more measurement…
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