IFRS Box

Standard IAS 16 prescribes the accounting treatment for property, plant and equipment and therefore it is one of the most important and commonly applied standards. The main issues dealt in IAS 16 are recognition of property, plant and equipment, measurement at and after recognition, impairment of property, plant and equipment (although IAS 36 deals with … Read more

IAS 39 is a standard fully replaced by the new standard on financial instruments IFRS 9 applicable from 1 January 2018. If you would like to know more about this process, please read our article IAS 39 vs. IFRS 9: Clarifying the Confusion. UPDATE 2018: IAS 39 is superseded for the periods starting on or … Read more

Update 2017: This is an article from 2012 and I wrote the totally updated article in 2017 here. However, there’s a valuable discussion in the comments to this article, and that’s why I did not delete it, but left it here. Please, if you have some questions, read the new article and post your comments … Read more

Today’s accounting world works on a single set of accounting and financial reporting standards. As a basis, IFRSs happen to play a crucial role. Nowadays, we are witnessing a huge progress of convergence to IFRS—not only by US GAAP, but also other countries are adopting more and more IFRS rules to their own accounting rules. I … Read more

In the first part of this small series, we have explained preparatory steps for making transformation of local accounts to IFRS. Here, we continue with summing all this up and preparing transformation bridge as the basis for IFRS accounts. Step 3: Prepare a bridge in excel and enter all adjustments in there What do I mean by … Read more

How many times did you sit with the head in your hands worrying about the statement of cash flows? Lots of work, preparation, calculations, adjustments…. and damn it, figures just do not add up! It’s very frustrating and creates headaches. I’ve been there. You might find making cash flow statements one of the most challenging … Read more

When you deal with leases in accordance with standard IAS 17 Leases, FAS 13 or any other applicable standard, you know for sure that the lease should be measured, whether initially or subsequently, using interest rate implicit in the lease in the first instance. In other words, when you use interest rate implicit in the … Read more

Dealing with impairment of assets, or cash generating units (CGU), involves one quite difficult task – to determine asset’s / CGU’s recoverable amount. Sometimes it might be an easy job, especially when fair value can be established and it is probably higher than value in use. But when there is no fair value available (or … Read more

Recently, during my lecture about financial instruments, I got a very interesting question from one clever participant. To give you a little background: He was a finance guy working in a huge company and for sure, he came across various accounting issues and problems. One of his tasks was to prepare valuation of corporate bonds … Read more

Have you ever seen some article with huge chunk of text? How appealing was it to you? Probably not that much. Frankly speaking, when I see such a piece, I just don’t read the text in the first instance. I quickly scroll through it, look to the pictures, tables or other interesting bits and then I … Read more