The IASB has issued the exposure draft Contracts for Renewable Electricity, with comments requested by August 7, 2024. Here’s part of the summary in the news release: Renewable electricity contracts aim to secure the stability of and access to renewable electricity sources. However, renewable electricity markets have unique characteristics. Renewable electricity sources depend on nature…
As we noted here, the Accounting Café’s Toby York, recently asked: “Could accounting, a field too significant to be left solely to accountants, also be a compelling drama if given a chance? What would be the dramatic narrative?” I passed on some examples provided by others, but failed to pitch in with any of my…
The IFRS Foundation recently issued its 2023 Annual Report, titled Better information for better decisions. This includes its audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023, and as these must rank among the financial statements for which it would be most embarrassing if anything were identified as being less than state of…
The IFRS Foundation recently published an introductory article Digital financial reporting—Facilitating digital comparability and analysis of financial reports The article offers the following overview: A digital financial report is a financial report in a computer-readable, structured data format. Although financial reports in a PDF format are visually and contextually understandable to humans, this format makes it…
As part of its activities, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) organizes a forum of enforcers from 38 different European jurisdictions, all of whom carry out monitoring and review programs similar to those carried out here by the Canadian Securities Administrators. ESMA recently published some extracts from its confidential database of enforcement decisions on…
Toby York, ever-stimulating founder of The Accounting Café, posted the following on LinkedIn: There’s angst about the state of the #accounting profession. Firms struggle to recruit, and convincing people of accounting’s purpose and social value is becoming harder. It’s possibly no accident that the profession lacks traction in popular culture. Or maybe its absence in…
While there’s much to be said about the recently-issued IFRS 18, Presentation and Disclosure in Financial Statements, the most important fact is simply that it won’t become effective until annual reporting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2027, and so no one needs to bother thinking about it any time soon. Thanks, that’s all…
The dismal case study of Trump Media & Technology Group In its own eye-rolling words, TMTG, the operator of the Truth Social platform, “aspires to build a media and technology powerhouse to rival the liberal media consortium and promote free expression. TMTG was founded to fight back against the big tech companies—Meta (Facebook, Instagram, and…
The IASB issued the Exposure Draft Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Equity—Proposed amendments to IAS 32, IFRS 7 and IAS 1, with a comment deadline of March 29, 2024. In common with pretty much everything the IASB ever issues, the exposure draft included a proposed increase in disclosure requirements, some of which don’t seem to have…
Are DEI jobs really disappearing?, asked a recent article in Pivot magazine. Here’s some of what the article, written by Tayo Bero, had to say: After the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing protests in 2020, executives in the corporate world responded by pumping resources into their diversity, equity and inclusion departments. Three years…
