IAS 18 Revenue
The world today is packed with different kinds of products, services, transactions and many other activities that people and business do. Logically, it is sometimes very tough issue for accountants to determine WHEN and even WHETHER to recognize revenue in the financial statements. That’s exactly…
IAS 17 Leases
IAS 17 Leases deals with the accounting and financial reporting of the very common business transaction—lease. Leases are the great example of “off-balance sheet” financing if not recorded properly in the financial statements. In the past, many companies used to hide their finance lease liabilities and…
IFRS 9 Financial Instruments 2012
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…
IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement
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 16 Property, Plant and Equipment – summary
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…
IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements: Summary
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 Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting
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…
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