Here are three contrasting recent disclosures: On May 1, 2020, the Company received a loan of $40,000 pursuant to the Canada Emergency Business Account  (“CEBA”). The CEBA  provides  zero-interest,  partially  forgivable  loans  of up  to  $40,000  to small businesses that have experienced diminished revenues due to COVID-19 but face ongoing non-deferrable costs, such as rent,…

Let’s return to the IASB’s exposure draft General Presentation and Disclosures. The comment period closed on September 30, 2020, after being extended because of covid-19; there were 215 comment letters. We looked recently at some of the reaction to the proposals on “management performance measures.” Another key proposal was that an entity should present a…

I started writing about IFRS around 2008… …in the run-up to Canada’s conversion to IFRS in 2011, and the landscape was heavily dominated by the then-active debate about whether the US should make the same leap. There was some vehemently colourful anti-IFRS commentary floating around in those days. Asked in 2010 to comment on the…

Here’s the background to another issue recently discussed by Canada’s IFRS Discussion Group: An entity may acquire an asset or a group of assets that do not comprise a business by issuing multiple financial instruments. Careful analysis is required to determine whether these instruments are in scope of IFRS 2 Share-based Payments. This standard can…

It’s been a while since we mentioned the IASB’s exposure draft General Presentation and Disclosures, so let’s dip into it today. The comment period closed on September 30, 2020, after being extended because of covid-19. One of the headline-grabbing proposals was a new definition of “management performance measures,” defined as follows: subtotals of income and…

In my last entry, I said that if Trump wins, it will only be because of an abject mass surrender to blindly ugly short-termism, a rejection of science and governance and of rationality itself, aided by a malfunctioning democracy and widespread mendacity. Well, at the time of this post, the outcome is still unclear, but…

This is the 503rd post on this blog… …and if Trump wins on Tuesday, it might be the last. Because there’s no point maintaining a blog on IFRS, if IFRS is dead. Oh, of course the death of IFRS, just like that of so many things, won’t be immediately apparent; probably not for decades. But…

Let’s return to the Consultation Paper recently issued by the Trustees of the IFRS Foundation “to assess demand for global sustainability standards and, if demand is strong, assess whether and to what extent the Foundation might contribute to the development of such standards.” I’ve several times expressed my view that this initiative is more about preserving…