General principles of IFRS financial statements

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

Going Concern as a Governance Responsibility

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