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The world today is packed with different kinds of products, services, transactions and many other activities that people and business do. Logically, it is sometimes very tough issue for accountants to determine WHEN and even WHETHER to recognize revenue in the financial statements. That’s exactly the main aim of the standard IAS 18—to give guidance … Read more

Standard IAS 19 Employee Benefits prescribes rules for recognition and presentation of various types of benefits that employers provide to their employees. Have you ever read about employee benefits that the best employer in the world—Google provides to its employees? Just to name a few of them (besides great salaries): Free haircuts, gourmet food, high-tech … Read more

Compound financial instruments became very common way of raising cash by many companies, but their shareholders don’t like them that much. Why? Because many compound financial instruments contain the option to convert into shares. Just imagine you purchased convertible bond that gives you the right to take issuer’s share instead of redemption in cash. If … Read more

Many IFRS standards require you to measure the fair value of some items. Just name the examples: financial instruments, biological assets, assets held for sale and many other. In the past, there was limited guidance on how to set fair value; the guidance was spread throughout the standards and often very conflicting. Therefore, IFRS 13 … Read more

Some time ago, standard IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements significantly changed and introduced the statement of other comprehensive income. And then it began: lots of confusion, frustration and doubts! Many of us simply did not get the point and started to flounder in the fog. What items belong to OCI? What items belong to … Read more

Benjamin Franklin once wrote: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes“. Income tax is something that can hardly be avoided by a profit-making company. You might find filling-in the tax return a demanding task because everything must be correct – otherwise you are asking for penalties from your … Read more

Last week I published an article with summary of the standard IAS 12 on Income taxes. It’s not an easy text to read and some definitions in IAS 12 are so obscure that many people grope in the fog unsure what to do. When it comes to setting the tax base of assets or liabilities, … Read more

Did you know that the world-wide economic crisis followed by the recession caused a sharp downfall of assets’ prices? In some countries, the prices of property fell by 30-50%! Such a steep and fast decrease had an impact on the IFRS financial reporting, too. Companies showing assets in their accounts had to reassess their book … Read more

Business world as of today presents a huge amount of various risks to almost every company or entrepreneur. I’m sure that also your company faces at least some of these risks: foreign currency risk, price risk, inflation risk, credit risk – just name it. Many businesses decided to do something about these risks and started … Read more

Does your company remunerate its top management by granting them own shares? Or,   do employees receive bonuses based on the increase of the company’s share price? Transactions whereby companies pay for the goods or services received by issuing shares or similar instruments are very common in these days. In fact, their volume is rapidly … Read more