Here’s an extract from a recent speech delivered at the 2014 AICPA National Conference on Current SEC and PCAOB Developments by T. Kirk Crews, Professional Accounting Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant: “From time to time, the staff reviews restatement data to understand current trends and potential practice issues. One observation that we…
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…
Another example of how IFRS 15 may require re-examining existing practices in a common area As we summarized here, the IASB has issued IFRS 15, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, effective for annual reporting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2017 (NB this was subsequently amended to January 1, 2018). The new standard is…
As part of its multi-faceted disclosure initiative, the IASB has issued an exposure draft of proposed amendments to IAS 7 Statement of Cash Flows, with comments to be received by April 17, 2015. The main amendment proposes adding the following paragraph: “An entity shall provide a reconciliation of the amounts in the opening and closing…
The IASB has issued amendments to IAS 1 resulting from its Disclosure Initiative, effective for annual periods beginning on or after January 1, 2016, with earlier application permitted. The narrow-focus amendments “are designed to further encourage companies to apply professional judgment in determining what information to disclose in their financial statements,” for the most part…
For the last few years, I’ve had an account on Twitter, the social media service which restricts posts (or “tweets”) to 140 characters at a time (I scooped up the prime “IFRSCanada” label). I don’t put anything on there except links to the articles on this blog, but periodically I look through everything on Twitter…
And now for something completely different, just to be festive… This is a proposal, apparently of Indian origin, that’s been knocking around the web for several years now – you can find it here for instance, and in many other places, sometimes with slight variations. As far as I can see, it’s not currently on the IASB’s…
CPA Canada has recently published Reading Financial Statements – What do I need to know? Common Questions Answered, available for free, written by Alex Fisher and myself (but if you’ve had your fill of me from this blog, then just forget the latter bit and go on the assumption Alex wrote the whole thing!) This is from…
When I started my first IFRS blog some six years ago, in the thick of the Canadian transition process, the debate about adopting IFRS in the US was active and often heated, prompting a constant stream of online ranting… I once quoted Professor David Albrecht, a particularly active figure in the field, as follows: “”As…
The IASB has issued an exposure draft of proposed amendments to IFRS 2, Classification and Measurement of Share-based Payment Transactions, with comments to be received by March 25, 2015. The issues it addresses are quite specific, but many of us will have encountered at least the first item in practice, stumbling through it as best we…
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