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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
Transactions in foreign currencies are sometimes a nightmare. Obviously, we are trading with each other, our own currencies are different and foreign exchange rates are jumping up and down constantly. We are all aware of basic rules with regard to selection of appropriate exchange rate to apply. If you would like to refresh a bit, … Read more
Hedge accounting has a reputation as being one of the most difficult areas for people to get to grips with, which is a shame because it is a very useful accounting “technology”. You can find several articles related to basics of hedge accounting in line with the current rules, for example about differences between fair … Read more
IFRS 15 Contracts with Customers introduced a huge change and a very difficult challenge for almost every single company. After I wrote a couple of articles about IFRS 15 here and here, and after I discussed with some of my friends CFOs or auditors, there are two types of reactions: Either people feel that this … Read more