IFRS 16 Leases – Summary
In January 2016, the new standard about lease accounting IFRS 16 was issued and it introduced a few major changes. The most significant are: New definition of the lease can cause that some contracts previously treated as “service contracts” can now be treated as “lease…
Summary of IFRS 5 Non-current Assets Held for Sale and Discontinued Operations
When a company (or another entity) plans to sell an asset and / or stop some part of its business, then it might affect its future cash flows, profitability and overall financial situation. Therefore, the users of financial statements, mainly investors, should be informed about…
Summary of IAS 40 Investment Property
Many accountants falsely believe that there’s only one standard that deals with long-term tangible assets: IAS 16 Property, Plant and Equipment. While it’s true that you need to apply IAS 16 for most of your long-term tangible assets, it’s not the one ruling all. I…
IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers – Summary
In the past few years, the revenue recognition rules changed dramatically with introduction of the new standard IFRS 15. All affected companies face a lot of challenges and work related to the proper implementation of the new standard. In today’s article, I’d like to point…
How to Account for Government Grants (IAS 20)
Almost every government supports certain companies or business by providing grants or other kind of assistance. As this is clear benefit and advantage comparing with other companies without such an assistance, it should be properly reported in the financial statements. How? Let’s explain the rules…
IAS 37 Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets
Have you ever heard a joke about two accountants applying for a job? During their interview, they were given a task to calculate a net profit figure based on available data. After some while, interviewer asked them a question: “What result did you get? What…
IAS 8 Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates, Errors
I bet every single company needed to change something in its accounting records and financial statements. Often, the change is very small, so you just don’t worry about it and make correction on the go. But sometimes, the change can impact companies quite hard. For…
Top 5 IFRS Changes Adopted in 2014
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…
IFRS 11 Joint Arrangements
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…
IAS 28 Investments in Associates and Joint Ventures
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…
