Archive for April 8th, 2011

8 April 2011: Meeting of the FASB/IASB Joint Working Group on Lease Accounting

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The next meeting of the Leases Working Group will be held in London on Monday 11 April 2011. At this meeting, the IASB and FASB representatives will meet with members of the joint working group on lease accounting to discuss issues on the 2010 exposure…

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8 April 2011: The Bruce Column – IFRS and the House of Lords

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The UK House of Lords inquiry into the audit market was never intended to stray
into the field of IFRS. But it did and their Lordships final report exhibits some confused thinking on the subject.

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8 April 2011: IFRS Foundation will publish additional tags for the IFRS Taxonomy

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The IFRS Foundation has announced that it will publish supplementary tags for the IFRS Taxonomy
that reflect disclosures that are commonly reported by entities in their IFRS financial statements.

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8 April 2011: ASB publishes case studies

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The staff of the UK Accounting Standards Board (ASB) has prepared case
studies that are designed to help constituents assess the effect of the proposals for
the future of financial reporting in the UK and Republic of Ireland published in October 2…

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8 April 2011: FEE paper on combined financial statements

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The European Federation of Accountants (FEE) has published a paper ‘Combined Financial Statements: A Discussion Paper’.
The paper is intended to enhance the public debate on the preparation of combined financial statements under IFRS.

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