IFRS Box

In my previous article I introduced the world of group accounts and consolidation to you. You learned that there about 6 IFRS dealing with this topic. Here, I’d like to summarize the first “consolidation” standard dealing with the consolidated financial statements: IFRS 10. What is the objective of IFRS 10? The objective of IFRS 10 … Read more

A few weeks ago I visited our dentist together with my little 4-year old girl just to check up everything’s OK with her little teeth. While we were sitting in the waiting room, my little one playing with the small teeth replicas (OMG!), I looked around myself noting that there were beautiful wall paintings around, … Read more

When should you apply IFRS 3 and when IFRS 10? What is the difference between IFRS 3 Business Combinations and IFRS 10 Consolidated Financial Statements? Today, I’d like to continue our “consolidation” series and after the introductory lesson and the summary of IFRS 10, let’s dive in the IFRS 3 Business Combinations. What is the … Read more

Let’s be more practical today and learn some advanced accounting techniques. After summaries of standards related to consolidation and group accounts, I’d like to show you how to prepare consolidated financial statements step by step. I’ll do it on a case study, with explaining what I do and why. If you don’t like reading, you … Read more

Is it an item of property, plant and equipment or a part of its cost? Or is it a piece of inventories instead? Or just an expense that goes straight in profit or loss? Hmmm, what about an intangible asset? In 90% of all cases, the answer to the above questions is clear – it’s … Read more

Let’s focus on associates, joint ventures, significant influence and equity method today. You have already learned various aspects of having control over some investment: how to identify it, how to account for it and we also learned basic consolidation procedures step by step. It was all covered by IFRS 3 Business Combinations and IFRS 10 … Read more

Deferred tax is neither deferred, nor tax: it is an accounting measure, more specifically an accrual for tax. I’m very proud to publish the first guest post ever in this website, written by Professor Robin Joyce FCCA who will explain you, in a detail, how to understand deferred taxation and how to tackle it in … Read more

In July 2014, the standard IFRS 9 was finally completed and the latest amendments brought us new impairment rules (besides the other things). In my humble opinion, new impairment rules will cause a lot of headaches for mainly financial institutions. Why? Well, they will have a hard time to adjust or upgrade their own information … Read more

Joint venture or joint operation? What is joint control? How to account for joint arrangements? In our consolidation series, we have already covered investments in subsidiaries (IFRS 3 and IFRS 10), associates (IAS 28) and other financial instruments. Today, we’ll take a look at the investments in joint arrangements which can be either joint venture … Read more

The year 2014 brought us some very significant changes in IFRS. While some changes might not give you a hard time to adopt, the other changes can cost you a lot of money and time to make them effective in your company. The year 2014 was rich in exactly these “revolutionary” changes that may require … Read more