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Some time ago I was a part of an audit team auditing the financial statements of a medium-sized manufacturing company. When we received the trial balance of that client, we spotted something strange: There were loads of transactions in a foreign currency and resulting impact of constant conversion to the local currency on profit or … Read more

The best things in life are free… … at least that’s what Janet Jackson sang in one of her top hits. However, when your company receives some free assets, then the question is: Are they really received at no cost and no strings attached? Is there something else behind? Many years ago I attended the … Read more

“They waste time asking the same questions every year.” “They do not know my business and they are wasting my time.” “They are expensive and offer zero value to us – in fact they are The necessary evil!” These are some of an infinite list of references to auditors that I am sure you have … Read more

The Conceptual Framework for the Financial Reporting (let’s title it just “Framework”) is a basic document that sets objectives and the concepts for general purpose financial reporting. Its predecessor, Framework for the preparation and presentation of the financial statements was issued back in 1989. Then in 2010, IASB published the new document, Conceptual Framework for … Read more

The end of 2018 spelled out relief for most accounting and financial modelling experts responsible for the implementation of IFRS 9: all necessary changes to accounting policies, models and methodologies were designed and enforced, all in time for a lovely Christmas break at the end of 2018! But for another group of professionals, namely auditors, … Read more

Impairment tests are one of the most judgmental areas in IFRS. It is all about estimating, judging, evaluating and forecasting. Sometimes it is almost like fortune telling, isn’t it? When I audited a few companies, I really disliked going through their impairment tests because all of them seemed nice and always showed no impairment whatsoever. … Read more

In my last article, I tried to outline the main things to consider and to avoid when preparing the cash flow projections for the impairment tests under IAS 36. Here let’s illustrate the theory and show the numerical example of making cash flow projections for impairment tests. Please be warned that there are many variations … Read more

Note: This article is a guest post written by Mr. Mohammed Afsar, Director of MizaanTech Ltd. IFRS 2 Share-based Payment (the “Standard”) is the financial reporting standard dealing with share based payments. It was first introduced in 2005, and is considered to be one of the most complex standards. One complexity is due to the … Read more

The standard IFRS 16 Leases has been issued for a while with the mandatory effective date of 1 January 2019. It means that you should have done some work and have it in function by this time. Yet, I still keep receiving questions related to different transition approaches, something like: “Is it possible that the … Read more

Should you ever recognize impairment, or a provision on your intercompany loan (if you are a lender, of course)? Why would you do that when all intercompany balances are eliminated on consolidation and there’s nothing left in the consolidated financial statements – no loan, no provision? Short answer – YES, you should, in most cases. … Read more