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Editorial
In early February, I was lucky to have the chance to spend an hour with EFRAG CEO and chairman of its Technical Expert Group (TEG), Andrew Watchman, before his term of office finishes this month. The EFRAG Board was set up in 2014 as a result of a..
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17 April 2019
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22.02 - 01 March 2019
Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Equity
EFRAG has now published its final comment letter1 on the IASB’s discussion paper, Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Equity. The conclusions of its three-page letter supported by an annex of 40 pages are perhaps not that surprising..
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17 April 2019
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IBOR reform and its effects on financial reporting
As reported last month, the IASB has a new project on its agenda that is about the accounting consequences of the interest-rate benchmark reforms that regulators around the world are currently working on with a view to replacing well-established..
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17 April 2019
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IFRS 17, Insurance contracts
As previously reported, the IASB is making good progress in working through the list of topics that its constituents have identified as issues with IFRS 17. The Board is deciding in each case whether to amend the standard in order to reduce the..
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17 April 2019
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CECL model
In June 2016, the FASB finalised Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses, that introduced the new current expected credit loss (CECL) model, the FASB equivalent..
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17 April 2019
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Interview with Andrew Watchman, EFRAG TEG chairman and CEO
Andrew, I’m very pleased to have the opportunity to talk to you about your experience as chief executive of EFRAG. Could you start by explaining what made you decide to leave your previous position as global head of IFRS at Grant Thornton to..
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17 April 2019
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22.02 - 01 March 2019
Editorial
Last month saw the launch of the European Reporting Lab at a conference in Brussels. Vice-president Dombrovskis gave the keynote speech explaining how the Commission had given EFRAG the task of establishing a Lab as one of the key objectives in its..
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30 April 2019
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22.03 - 01 April 2019
Europe update: April 2019
EFRAG
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International update: April 2019
IASB
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30 April 2019
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European Reporting Lab
In March this year, EFRAG Lab hosted a conference, Fostering Innovation in Corporate Reporting. The event served two purposes, first, it launched the new Lab and, secondly, it obtained input from the participants about how the Lab might tackle its..
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30 April 2019
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US update: April 2019
FASB
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30 April 2019
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How will IT shape the future of finance professions?
For some time now, there has been widespread concern over the impact that developing technologies will have – and are already having – on the employment market. It is feared that there could be a significant increase in unemployment in..
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30 April 2019
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Kingman Review – Audit issues
As previously reported in WAR, the report issued last year by the Kingman Review1 of the FRC covered all aspects of the regulator’s work and the way in which it operates. This article looks in more detail at what the recommendations had to say..
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30 April 2019
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22.03 - 01 April 2019