Please find below a brief summary of news and events from the International Accounting Standards Board (Board) and the IFRS
® Foundation over the past month:
IASB seeks comments to help shape its five-year plan
The Board has published a consultation document to seek views on
what its priorities should be over the next five years. This is the third time the Board has consulted the public via an agenda consultation to help create its five-year plan.
Speech: The balancing act of finding the right accounting answer
Board Chair Hans Hoogervorst delivered a speech at a meeting of the International Accounting Forum for Accounting Standards Setter (IFASS), reflecting on his 10-year tenure as it comes to an end in June 2021.
IASB proposes a new approach that opens the way to better communication in the notes in financial statements
The Board is seeking public comments on a
new approach to developing disclosure requirements in IFRS Standards and new disclosure requirements for the Standards on fair value measurement and employee benefits. These proposals would enable companies to enhance their judgement and reduce ‘boilerplate’ information, giving investors more useful information.
IASB extends support for lessees accounting for covid-19-related rent concessions
In response to calls from stakeholders and because the covid-19 pandemic is still at its height, the Board has
extended by one year the application period of the practical expedient in IFRS 16 Leases to help lessees accounting for covid-19-related rent concessions.
IASB extends the comment period for Exposure Draft Regulatory Assets and Regulatory Liabilities
The Board met on 23 March 2021 and decided to
extend by 30 days the comment period for the Exposure Draft
Regulatory Assets and Regulatory Liabilities to give stakeholders more time to respond. The recording of a live
webinar explaining this Exposure Draft is also available on the website.
Webcast: The IASB seeks investor views on how to account for M&As between companies under common control
The Board has published a
webcast for investors summarising its consultation on reporting mergers and acquisitions (M&As) between companies under common control (transfers of businesses from one company within a group to another). The webcast presents suggestions for how the Board could amend IFRS Standards to make reporting more comparable and more transparent.
IFRS Foundation Trustees make key announcements on sustainability reporting
First, they announced
strategic direction of a potential new sustainability reporting standards board and further steps based on feedback to sustainability reporting consultation. As they continue their analysis and discussions of the feedback received to their
Consultation Paper on Sustainability Reporting, they also announced the
formation of a working group to accelerate convergence in global sustainability reporting standards focused on enterprise value.
IFRS Foundation Trustees reappoint two IFRS Interpretations Committee members
The Trustees of the IFRS Foundation have announced the
reappointment for another three-year term of Guy Jones and Goro Kumagai to the IFRS Interpretations Committee, effective 1 July 2021.
IFRS Foundation publishes IFRS Taxonomy 2021
The
IFRS Taxonomy 2021 is based on IFRS Standards as at 1 January 2021, including those issued but not yet effective. The IFRS Taxonomy enables electronic reporting of financial information prepared in accordance with IFRS Standards. Preparers can use it to tag disclosures, making them easily accessible to investors who prefer to receive financial information electronically.
March 2021 IFRIC Update available
Read the
summary of the Interpretations Committee meeting held in March, with topics including an agenda decision on Configuration or Customisation Costs in a Cloud Computing Arrangement (IAS 38
Intangible Assets).
March 2021 IASB Update Podcast available
In this podcast, Hans Hoogervorst and Sue Lloyd, Board Chair and Vice-Chair,
talk about the Board’s discussions at both its supplementary meeting on 10 March and its regular meeting on 23 and 24 March 2021. Topics covered include on IFRS 16
Leases and covid-19-related rent concessions, feedback on the Goodwill and Impairment consultation, decisions taken in the Primary Financial Statements project and next steps on the Request for Information
Comprehensive Review of the IFRS for SMEs
Standard. You can also read the IASB
Updates for the
supplementary meeting and the
regular March meeting.
Work with the Foundation
The Foundation is currently looking for
two new Trustees,
two new members to the IFRS Interpretations Committee and for
nominations to the Accounting Standards Advisory Forum.
