Annual Reporting Posts

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Resources, risks and relationships: the most misunderstood section of management commentary

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Why resources, risks and relationships are not “background information” Topics show Why resources, risks and relationships are not “background information” The structural mistake: separating strategy from capability Why boards often underestimate this section Resources: not what you own, but what you rely on Relationships: the invisible infrastructure of performance Risks: consequences, not abstractions Why this … Read more

Performance, position and cash flows – Why management commentary explains numbers but not change

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Explaining change is harder than reporting results Topics show Explaining change is harder than reporting results The structural weakness of “period reporting” Explaining change is a governance discipline Performance: more than variances Financial position: the silent accumulation of change Cash flows: where explanations most often fail Why users care about change, not just results What … Read more

IFRS Practice Statement 1 Management Commentary

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The conceptual and governance backbone of management commentary, explaining why it exists, how it connects strategy, risk, KPIs, ESG and IFRS numbers, and what boards and preparers systematically get wrong.  IFRS Practice Management Commentary. 1 – Why Management Commentary matters (again) Topics show 1 – Why Management Commentary matters (again) 2 – What IFRS Practice … Read more

IFRS Practice Statement 1: Management Commentary & GovernanceIFRS Practice Statement 1 Management Commentary

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The conceptual and governance backbone of management commentary, explaining why it exists, how it connects strategy, risk, KPIs, ESG and IFRS numbers, and what boards and preparers systematically get wrong.  IFRS Practice Statement 1 Management Commentary. 1 – Why Management Commentary matters (again) Topics show 1 – Why Management Commentary matters (again) 2 – What … Read more

Reorganising in Profit – Why Successful Companies Rewire Themselves at the Top of Their Game

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The uncomfortable headline: record profits, then reorganisation or The reorganising while profitable act Topics show The uncomfortable headline: record profits, then reorganisation or The reorganising while profitable act ASML as a contemporary anchor case Profit as a source of organisational drag Why reorganisation happens before performance declines Reorganisation without divestment: a specific category The governance … Read more

General principles of IFRS financial statements

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1 – The Architecture of IFRS Financial Statements: Principles Before Standards General principles financial statements  – Financial statements under IFRS are often approached as a collection of standards: IAS 1 for presentation, IAS 7 for cash flows, IFRS 15 for revenue, IFRS 16 for leases, IFRS 9 for financial instruments. In practice, however, this standards-first … Read more

Primary users

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IFRS 9 Commitments, Loan Commitments and Credit Risk: From Footnote Disclosure to Governance-Critical Judgement

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1. Why IFRS 9 commitments deserve more attention than they get Topics show 1. Why IFRS 9 commitments deserve more attention than they get 2. What IFRS 9 means by “commitments” – and what it does not 3. Loan commitments: firm promises to provide credit 4. Scope boundaries: when a commitment falls inside IFRS 9 … Read more

Going Concern as a Governance Responsibility

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Why business continuity is a governance judgment, not an accounting assumption Topics show Why business continuity is a governance judgment, not an accounting assumption 1. Going concern: from accounting premise to governance judgment 2. Why going concern failures are rarely technical failures 3. The dangerous comfort of minimum compliance 4. Cash: not a balance, but … Read more

Axelera AI and the Governance of European AI Ambition

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1. The AI supercycle: beyond hype, into structure Topics show 1. The AI supercycle: beyond hype, into structure 2. Europe’s AI dilemma: dependence without sovereignty 3. Axelera AI introduced — carefully 4. Innovation as architectural choice, not brute force 5. Why NVIDIA is the unavoidable reference — and why the comparison must stay restrained 6. … Read more