Narrow-Scope Amendments to IAS 8

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has proposed an Exposure Draft IAS 8 Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors for public consultation and comments by 15 January 2018. The purpose of the Exposure Draft is to help companies...

ASC Responded to SME Implementation Group

The Accounting Standards Council (ASC) has submitted comment letters to the SME Implementation Group on IFRS for SMEs Draft Q&A Accounting for financial guarantees in parent’s separate financial statements. Draft Q&As which was developed in June 2017 provide...

Revenue – The new Revenue Standard (Part 1)

Overview 1.1   Revenue recognition has been a contentious area for financial reporting. 1.2   In the previous revenue standards, there are significant diversity in revenue recognition due to limited guidance: (a)     Timing of revenue recognition – whether a company...

IFRS provides illustrative tagging for IFRS 17

The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) has published illustrative tagging for the proposed IFRS Taxonomy Update IFRS Taxonomy 2017 — IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts. The illustrative tagging shows how selected information from the Illustrative Examples...

IASB proposes Amendments to IAS 16

The International Accounting Standard Board (IASB) has proposed narrow-scope amendments to be made to IAS 16 Property, Plant and Equipment to reduce the diversity in application of the Standard. IAS 16 establishes principles for recognising and measuring items of...