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The IASB’s views on IFRS 9 and long-term investment
One of the recent banner news items on the IASB’s website contained a reaction[1] to the debate in Europe about IFRS 9 and long-term investment from Sue Lloyd, who has recently been re-appointed for a second term in office as the IASB deputy..
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03 July 2018
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21.05 - 03 July 2018
News Update
There are two news items from the FASB this month. First, the Board recently issued improvements to Topic 942 – Financial Services, Depository and Lending; and secondly, Board member Harold Monk has resigned.
The FASB recently issued an..
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03 July 2018
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21.05 - 03 July 2018
Speaking in harmony in the EU
Peter Walton and Carien Van Mourik, Open University Business School, have recently published a fascinating article entitled “The European IFRS Endorsement Process – in Search of a Single Voice”[1] which analyses the creation and..
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03 July 2018
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21.05 - 03 July 2018
Disclosure Initiative
The Board had its initial discussion about developing guidance for it to use when developing and drafting disclosure requirements. It decided it would base all disclosure requirements on one or more specific disclosure objectives. The objectives..
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03 July 2018
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21.05 - 03 July 2018
Primary Financial Statements
This topic also led to interesting discussions between Board members. They started with a summary of the results of a survey the staff have conducted on aggregation and disaggregation practices in different jurisdictions, and considered..
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03 July 2018
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21.05 - 03 July 2018
Business Combinations under Common Control (BCUCC)
At the April 2018 meeting, the Board had discussed approaches for specific transactions within the scope of the project based on an IFRS 3 approach.
The Board had taken the example of a BCUCC in which company A acquired company B, both..
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03 July 2018
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21.05 - 03 July 2018
Lease incentives
The Board had received feedback that an illustrative example (number 13) for IFRS 16, Leases, is confusing and should be amended.
The issue concerns the treatment of reimbursements of leasehold improvements by the lessor and whether such..
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03 July 2018
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21.05 - 03 July 2018
Rate-regulated activities
The Board continued to make progress in developing its new model of accounting for rate-regulated activities. This month, it moved on to considering how regulatory assets should be measured. A number of tentative decisions were made.
The basic..
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03 July 2018
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21.05 - 03 July 2018
Enforcement Cases
ESMA has published the 22nd extract from its confidential database of enforcement decisions on IFRS taken by its member bodies from across the EU.
ESMA coordinates the enforcement of IFRS across Europe in order to achieve consistent..
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03 July 2018
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21.05 - 03 July 2018
IFRS 9 and equity investments: Developments at EFRAG
Earlier in the year, EFRAG published a discussion paper[1] seeking views on an approach to impairment for equity investments; since then it has also published the findings of an academic literature review[2] into the topic. This analysis sets out..
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03 July 2018
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21.05 - 03 July 2018
Goodwill and impairment
The IASB staff began as usual by presenting their paper, which was a resume of the tentative decisions that the Board has taken to date in response to the post-implementation review of IFRS 3, Business Combinations. These decisions were around..
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03 July 2018
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21.05 - 03 July 2018
FRC Update on Carillion Investigations
Given the public interest in the collapse of Carillion, the FRC has recently issued an update on its investigations which provides an interesting insight into the work effort involved.
The FRC’s investigations are into KPMG’s audit..
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03 July 2018
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21.05 - 03 July 2018
Editorial
This month sees further comment on the effect of IFRS 9 on long-term investment. EFRAG has been working on this topic for some time now and is due to report back its conclusions and recommendations to the European Commission in the near future. Sue..
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03 July 2018
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21.05 - 03 July 2018
Audit quality
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published reports setting out the key findings of its audit inspections, with the conclusion that the audit quality of the Big Four has declined. Since high-quality audit is a corner-stone of investor..
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31 July 2018
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21.06 - 31 July 2018
FASB issues two Accounting Standards Updates
The recent joint meeting between the FASB and the IASB is covered below. The two Boards discussed their larger projects, but meanwhile both have ongoing work to simplify or clarify existing requirements. In this context, FASB has issued two new..
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31 July 2018
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21.06 - 31 July 2018
Insurance update
This article summarises the technical discussions on IFRS 17, Insurance Contracts, at the second meeting of the IASB’s Transition Resource Group (TRG).
The IFRS 17 TRG is supporting the implementation of the standard by providing a public..
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31 July 2018
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21.06 - 31 July 2018
Editorial
Although a great deal of attention is being paid in the news to Brexit, this is not the only thing going on in the UK at the moment, and this month’s issue of World Accounting Report includes coverage of developments at the Financial Reporting..
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31 July 2018
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21.06 - 31 July 2018
Friends reunited
The FASB and IASB recently came together in London for an educational meeting in which they updated each other on their work and shared their thoughts on the challenges they are facing. The agenda for the day comprised topics of mutual interest..
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31 July 2018
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21.06 - 31 July 2018
Dynamic Risk Management
The Board discussed the derivative financial instruments that could be covered by the Dynamic Risk Management (DRM) model. It agreed to permit the use of interest rate swaps (including basis and forward starting swaps) and forward rate..
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31 July 2018
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21.06 - 31 July 2018
Disclosure Initiative
Staff began by presenting some work that they had done to follow up to the Principles of Disclosure discussion paper (DP), where the Board had received feedback that there was some overlap or lack of clarity about the different Better Communication..
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31 July 2018
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21.06 - 31 July 2018
Business Combinations under Common Control and other matters
The IASB directed the staff to develop an approach based on the acquisition method set out in IFRS 3, Business Combinations, and to consider whether and how that method should be modified to provide the most useful information for Business..
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31 July 2018
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21.06 - 31 July 2018
Primary Financial Statements
The Board has made a number of tentative decisions on the project to date for non-financial companies and, at this meeting, it began to consider the extent to which these decisions could be applied to “financial” companies. No decisions..
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31 July 2018
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21.06 - 31 July 2018
FRC announces sanctions and further investigations
The FRC continues to be in the news for a number of reasons. It has announced record fines as a result of its investigation into PwC for its audit of British Home Stores (BHS), fines relating to the audit of Quindell plc and the outcome of its..
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31 July 2018
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21.06 - 31 July 2018
Financial Instruments
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31 July 2018
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21.06 - 31 July 2018
Changes in the Board
Melanie Hind (previously McLaren) joined the FRC as Executive Director, Codes and Standards in 2012. In April 2016 she became Executive Director, Audit and Actuarial Regulation as a result of an internal re-organisation. In a press notice issued on..
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31 July 2018
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21.06 - 31 July 2018