International Accounting Standards Board: Developments in IFRS

Michael Stewart, Jawaid Dossani, April Pitman and Bernadette Whittick give an overview of some of the issues discussed at the November 2015 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting, including IAS 16 Property, Plant and Equipment and IAS 38 Intangible Assets—Variable payments for asset purchases, IAS 2 Inventories—Prepayments in long-term supply contracts and IAS 32 Financial Instruments: Presentation—Offsetting and cash pooling.

Leases, Pollutant pricing mechanisms, Update on Impairment Transition Group, Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Equity, Disclosure Initiative, Insurance Contracts, Different effective dates of IFRS 9 and the new Insurance Contracts Standard, IFRS Implementation Issues, Goodwill and Impairment, Definition of a business.

Insurance Contracts, Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Equity, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, Research Programme, Conceptual Framework, Disclosure Initiative, IFRS Implementation Issues, Business Combinations, Present value measurements.

Michael Stewart, Takashi Yamagami, Jawaid Dossani and Bernadette Whittick give an overview of some of the issues discussed at the September 2015 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting, including IFRS 5 Non-current Assets held for Sale and Discontinued Operations—Allocation of impairment losses to non-current assets within a disposal group and presentation of intragroup transactions between continuing and discontinued operations, IFRS 11 Joint Arrangements—Remeasurement of previously held interests in various transactions, IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement—Separation of an embedded interest rate floor from a floating rate host contract in a negative interest rate environment, and IFRS 9 Financial Instruments and IAS 28 Investments in Associates and Joint Ventures: Impairment of long-term interests.

Insurance Contracts, Accounting for Dynamic Risk Management, Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Equity, Fair Value Measurement, Revenue from Contracts with Customer, Rate-regulated Activities, IFRS Implementation Issues, IFRS Taxonomy, Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets, Agenda Consultation .

Michael Stewart, Jawaid Dossani, Denise Durant and Akemi Miura give an overview of some of the issues discussed at the July 2015 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting, including IAS 23 Borrowing Costs—Borrowing costs on completed qualifying assets, IFRS 2 Share-based Payment—Clarification and measurement of share-based payment transactions and IFRIC 14 IAS 19—The Limit on a Defined Benefit Asset, Minimum Funding Requirements and their Interaction: Should an entity assume continuation of a minimum funding requirement for contributions relating to future service?

Insurance Contracts, Accounting for Dynamic Risk Management, Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Equity, Pollutant Pricing Mechanisms, Revenue from Contracts with Customer, Research Programme, Disclosure Initiative, IFRS Implementation Issues, The Equity Method of Accounting, Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets.

Revenue Recognition, Disclosure Initiative, Research project on high inflation, Draft interpretation that the Interpretations Committee is going to issue relating to accounting for uncertainties in income taxes.

Michael Stewart, Hannah King, Jooeun Chung and Takashi Yamagami give an overview of some of the issues discussed at the March 2015 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting, including IAS 21 The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates—Draft Interpretation Foreign Currency Transactions and Advance Consideration: What is the date of the transaction for the purpose of identifying the applicable exchange rate?, IAS 12 Income Taxes—Exposure Draft Recognition of deferred tax assets for unrealised losses (Proposed amendments to IAS 12), IFRS 11 Joint Arrangements—Classification of joint arrangements: the assessment of ‘other facts and circumstances’ and IFRS 11 Joint Arrangements—Accounting by the joint operator: recognition of revenue by a joint operator.

Leases, Research Update, Disclosure Initiative, Revenue from Contracts with Customers—Issues emerging from TRG discussions, Conceptual Framework, Insurance Contracts.

Revenue Recognition, Leases, PIR for IFRS 3 Business Combinations, Disclosure Initiative, Comprehensive review of IFRS for SMEs, public consultation for Rate Regulation and Macro Hedging.

Michael Stewart, Hannah King, Shandhir Lachman and Denise Durant give an overview of some of the issues discussed at the January 2015 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting, including IAS 21 The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates–Transactions denominated in a foreign currency that involve a prepayment: Identifying the applicable exchange rate, IFRS 13 Fair Value Measurement–the fair value hierarchy when third-party consensus prices are used, and IAS 40 Investment property–Should an investment property under construction be transferred from inventory to investment property when there is an evident change in use?

Leases, Disclosure Initiative, Insurance Contracts, Conceptual Framework, Comprehensive review of IFRS for SMEs, Emissions Trading Scheme.

Leases, Comprehensive review of IFRS for SMEs, Disclosure Initiative, and various IFRS Interpretations Committee issues

Insurance Contracts, Disclosure Initiative, Conceptual Framework, and Emission Trading Schemes

Michael Stewart, April Pitman, Hannah King and Koichiro Kuramochi give an overview of some of the issues discussed at the November 2014 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting, including IAS 2 Inventories—Should interest be accreted on prepayments in long-term supply contracts? IAS 21 The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates—Revenue transaction denominated in a foreign currency—What is the date of the transaction for the purpose of identifying the applicable exchange rate for revenue recognition? IAS 16 Property, Plant and Equipment—Accounting for net proceeds and costs of testing for property, plant and equipment.

Research Project, Disclosure Initiative, Leases, Conceptual Framework, and Insurance Contracts

Disclosure Initiative, Insurance Contracts, Conceptual Framework (Materiality, Long-term Investing, Equity and Liabilities), and Post-implementation Review IFRS 3: Business Combinations

Michael Stewart, Akemi Miura, Koichiro Kuramochi and Denise Durant give an overview of some of the issues discussed at the September 2014 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting, including IFRIC 14 IAS 19—The Limit on a Defined Benefit Asset, Minimum Funding Requirements and their Interaction—Availability of refunds from a defined benefit plan managed by an independent trustee, IAS 28 Investments in Associates and Joint Ventures—Fund manager’s significant influence over a fund and IFRS 12 Disclosure of Interests in Other Entities—Disclosures for a dubsidiary with a material non-controlling interest and for a material joint venture or associate.

Insurance Contracts, Disclosure Initiative, Leases, and Conceptual Framework