We looked here at the following announcement by the retailer WH Smith PLC: The company announced at the time that the Board had “instructed Deloitte to undertake an independent and comprehensive review.” The company has now issued a summary of the review:  It announced the following “remediation actions”: At the same time, the company announced…

As we discussed here, IFRIC recently discussed a fact pattern involving an entity that enters into a loan with its subsidiary… In the fact pattern, the entity and its subsidiary have different functional currencies; the intragroup loan is denominated in the functional currency of either the entity or its subsidiary; and isn’t part of the entity’s…

Let’s return to the upcoming IFRS 18, Presentation and Disclosure in Financial Statements… As we covered here, a key aspect of the new standard is its treatment of management-defined performance measures (MPMs), subtotals of income and expense that aren’t specifically required to be presented or disclosed under IFRS, but that an entity uses in public…

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued a concept release on foreign private issuer eligibility. Qualifying foreign companies listing in the US (termed “foreign private issuers”) receive various exemptions from the rules applying to domestic US companies, including the ability to file their statements in compliance with IFRS rather than with US GAAP. The concept…

Here’s yet another low point in Elon Musk-dom, as reported by CNN: Given the Tesla board’s demonstrated spinelessness, one expects the targets will be partly or wholly waived when Musk (as he will) fails to achieve them. But even if that’s not the case, the award represents a comprehensive failure of corporate governance and rationality,…

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 a while ago published some extracts from its confidential database of enforcement…

IFRIC recently considered the following fact pattern: The underlying staff paper observes: “there is a growing prevalence of battery storage and offtake arrangements…Such arrangements are common in the utility industry and are expected to increase significantly in the near future (as well as) outside of the utility industry as batteries form a critical part of…

We recently looked at Trump’s proposal to move US companies away from quarterly and toward semi-annual financial reporting… …noting along the way that Canadian regulators would no doubt move in the same direction, and that one almost hoped for them to get there first, if even just for the sake of not always seeming to…

Carney is trying to trick all of us with some accounting sleight of hand, opines the title of a recent National Post article. It’s written by Kim Moody. Here are some extracts: The article reminds us that under Canadian Public Sector Accounting Standards, tangible capital assets are non-financial assets having physical substance that That’s largely…

Here’s an overview of a recent enforcement action filed by the Ontario Securities Commission: The OSC lists seventeen different classes of order that it seeks from the capital markets tribunal (maybe that’s a tad too long a list for maximum punchiness) including that Purpose and its Chair/CEO have their registration or recognition under Ontario securities…