Contributing assets to associates or joint ventures – eliminating structuring opportunities (or most of them…)

The IASB has issued Sale or Contribution of Asset between an Investor and its Associate or Joint Venture, amendments to IFRS 10 and IAS 28, driven by questions about the appropriate accounting by an investor for a business it contributes to an equity-accounted investee. The guidance in IFRS 10 suggests that when it loses control of…

Accounting for revenue under IFRS 15 – making the change

How to make the transition to the IASB’s new accounting requirements 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). An entity for which the standard causes a…

IFRS and the small-minded obstructionists who don’t get it

by John Hughes The speeches by the IASB’s leaders often evoke some tedious game of strategy where every rhetorical point in favour of IFRS is considered to be worth making over and over, even if it accomplishes little more than moving a single piece back and forth between the same two squares. As in some Cold War espionage…

Accounting for revenue – allocating the transaction price

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 built around a five-step framework, and we discussed the first three of these steps here,…

The limits of IFRS, or: terrible coffee

by John Hughes I often look on Twitter for interesting IFRS-related material, but it’s nearly always a barren exercise. How could it be otherwise, you might ask. But I recently came across the following provocative outburst from one user (if you’re not familiar with the format, it reads from the bottom up): Although the train of…

Accounting for revenue – determining the transaction price

Some issues around the third step in the IASB’s new framework for recognizing revenue 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 built…