Beyond the GAAP Newsletter
Each month you will find our Beyond the GAAP newsletter on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
Doctrine n°210 - Juin 2024
Fin mai, l’IASB publiait les amendements à IFRS 9 et IFRS 7 concernant la classification et l’évaluation des instruments financiers, d’application obligatoire aux exercices ouverts à compter du 1er janvier 2026.
Beyond the GAAP no.188 - May 2024
In May, EFRAG issued some important documents to support large entities that are required to publish a sustainability statement under ESRS. EFRAG had first issued a compilation of explanations provided to stakeholders in response to questions posed on the Q&A platform opened last October. In addition to reproducing some of the answers already published, this compilation includes 44 new explanations on sometimes sensitive technical issues, such as how to determine the metrics required by ESRS.
Beyond the GAAP no.187 - April 2024
On 9 April 2024, the IASB published IFRS 18 – Presentation and Disclosure in Financial Statements, the new standard that will replace the current IAS 1 –Presentation of Financial Statements. This standard, the culmination of the Primary Financial Statements (PFS) project initiated in 2015, aims to improve the comparability, quality and transparency of financial information for users of financial statements. It will apply retrospectively to reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2027 at the latest (subject to endorsement by the European Union, earlier application will be possible). Given the structural changes it introduces, we believe it is important to pay immediate attention to this new standard in order to anticipate the necessary changes to internal systems and processes for producing financial statements and, perhaps, to rethink the way in which financial performance is reported.
Beyond the GAAP no.186 - March 2024
In last month’s issue, we looked at the three main topics covered by the draft amendments to IAS 32, IFRS 7 and IAS 1, as set out in the Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Equity (FICE) exposure draft. In this issue, we present the Board’s proposals on the other seven topics, including contingent settlement provisions, shareholder decisions and reclassification of financial instruments between financial liabilities and equity instruments. These two feature articles will provide our readers with a complete overview of the content of the exposure draft, for which the comment period ended on 29 March 2024.
Beyond the GAAP no.185 - February 2024
Last November, we reported the publication of an IASB exposure draft of proposed amendments to IAS 32, IFRS 7 and IFRS 1 on the classification of financial instruments with characteristics of equity (“FICE”).
Beyond the GAAP no.184 - January 2024
This month, sustainability reporting has again dominated the news, with the provisional agreement from the European Parliament to delay Commission adoption of the next sets of ESRS (namely sector-specific ESRS and ESRS for non-EU groups) by two years, i.e. by 30 June 2026 instead of 30 June 2024 as initially indicated in the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.
Beyond the GAAP no.183 - December 2023
Beyond the GAAP no.182 - November 2023
Beyond the GAAP no.181 - October 2023
Beyond the GAAP no.180 - September 2023
In mid-September, the European Commission (EC) launched a consultation on a draft delegated act that proposes to increase by 25% the size criteria set out in the Accounting Directive to classify undertakings and groups into different categories (micro, small, medium and large), in order to reflect inflation over the past ten years.