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Definition of material
In the context of the Disclosure Initiative, the IASB published an Exposure Draft (ED), Definition of Material, in September 2017. The reason this was required was that the IFRS literature, specifically, the Conceptual Framework for Financial..
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04 June 2018
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Business Combinations under Common Control
The Board began discussing its Business Combinations Under Common Control project with an update from staff on the approaches being developed. As previously agreed, staff are starting their work using the principles of IFRS 3, Business Combinations...
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04 June 2018
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Dynamic risk management
The Board continued working through the parts of its new model for the Dynamic Risk Management research project. In respect of the target profile – its designation in terms of items within it and requirements for documentation – the..
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04 June 2018
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Update on the Financial Reporting Council
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) finds itself under the spotlight with the launch of a review of its operations following the collapse of Carillion.
On 17 April 2018, the UK Government announced that it had asked Sir John Kingman to..
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04 June 2018
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Consultation on research activities
EFRAG has launched a public consultation[1] on the strategic direction of its research activities. EFRAG’s last agenda consultation was in 2015 in parallel with the IASB’s. Since many of the current research activities will be reaching..
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04 June 2018
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Views on Collaboration
The latest FASB Outlook includes Russell G. Golden, FASB chairman, discussing the importance of collaboration with academics for FASB and Marc Siegel, FASB board member, about to step down after his second term, reflecting on his experience at the..
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04 June 2018
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Collaborative Arrangements exposure draft
The FASB has issued an exposure draft of amendments to Topic 808, Collaborative Arrangements, to make improvements to the guidance that covers whether transactions between participants in a collaborative arrangement fall within the scope of the..
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04 June 2018
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Goodwill and Impairment
The post-implementation review (PIR) of IFRS 3, Business Combinations, heard feedback in relation to the requirements of IAS 36, Impairment of Assets, stating that the requirements for the annual impairment test of impairment for goodwill are unduly..
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04 June 2018
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Editorial
This month’s newsletter covers a diverse range of topics. There is a detailed update on the IASB’s new Conceptual Framework with a particular focus on what has changed; some news on EFRAG, the FRC, FASB and the US SEC, as well as the..
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04 June 2018
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Fines imposed for bribery and accounting fraud
The SEC has recently announced that Panasonic Corp which is based in Japan will pay more than USD143m for charges under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and in relation to accounting fraud violations involving its global avionics..
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04 June 2018
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Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) – funding FASB
The question of who pays for standard-setters and other regulators is often a vexed one. The President and Chief Executive of the FAF, Terri Polley, devoted her regular column on the FASB website to explaining how the FASB and its Trustees are..
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04 June 2018
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Further views on EFRAG
In 2017, EFRAG commissioned FleishmanHillard, a public relations and marketing agency, to perform an audit into external perceptions of EFRAG and its work. A 43-page report setting out the key findings was recently published and it proves to be an..
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04 June 2018
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New Conceptual Framework
After a number of years of work, the IASB has completed its revised Conceptual Framework (CFW) and published the new version which unusually comes into effect with two different dates.
The CFW sets out the basic principles and concepts that..
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04 June 2018
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Primary financial statements
This project stems from the Board’s Better Communication in Financial Reporting initiative. In April 2018, the Board continued to discuss the presentation and disclosure of management performance measures (MPMs). The Board took some tentative..
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04 June 2018
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