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IFRS and US GAAP come closer to each other and the dream was to have a single set of the reporting standards until 2015. Now we know that that dream did not come true and there is still a long way to go. Until then, there are still many companies who need to cope with IFRS … Read more

People are very creative and inventive. So they created and invented numerous kinds of financial instruments. Just admit it—are you really versed well in derivatives, various share options, warrants, certificates, convertible bonds and many others? This area happens to be so complicated and difficult to understand, also from IFRS accounting and reporting point of view. Adding … Read more

Update 2019: As the new Framework was issued in 2018, there’s a summary of updated Framework with the new video here on this link. The Conceptual Framework for the Financial Reporting (I will call it just “IFRS Framework”) serves as a pillar on which the whole IFRS stand. It describes the basic principles for presentation … Read more

IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements represents a basis of the whole IFRS reporting, as it sets overall requirements for the presentation of financial statements, guidelines for their structure and minimum requirements for their content. Financial Statements Purpose of the financial statements is to provide information about the financial position, financial performance and cash flows of an … Read more

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 UPDATE 2018: IAS 39 is superseded for the periods starting on or … Read more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