Top 3 Biggest Dilemmas With Your Auditors
Companies are very watchful when it comes to an audit of their financial statements. How to deal with our auditors? Do they know everything? Should we listen to them? Can they force us to do something we don’t want? I worked as an audit assistant,…
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…
The Best of CPDbox 2015
The year-end is coming closer and closer; the closings have already started to push their pressure on all of us, the exam season approaches and we live the busy lives. I know that this part of the year is usually the second busiest for any…
How to Account for Spare Parts under IFRS
One of the biggest issues related to property, plant and equipment is accounting for spare parts, servicing equipment, stand-by equipment and similar items. IFRS standards are pretty silent about this topic, the guidance is very limited and as a result, companies need to rely on…
The Quick Guide to IFRS 7 Risk Disclosures
The financial instruments belong to the most complicated and difficult areas in IFRS and therefore, I dedicated many articles to making the things understandable a bit. However, until now, we haven’t even touched the complexity of the disclosures about financial instruments as required by IFRS…
When to start depreciation?
After graduating from a university I started my career in a famous, then Big 5 audit company. If you work in auditing I bet you got the worst tasks and assignments during your first year at work! Just as I did. I remember taking part…
Tax Incentives – IAS 12 or IAS 20?
In my previous article about accounting for government grants I asked you to give me some feedback and write me about some problems or issues in this area. Surprisingly, most of your responses asked one and the same question: How to account for tax incentives…
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…
Current or Non-Current?
Most balance sheets present individual items in distinction to current and non-current (except for banks and similar institutions). This seems so basic and obvious that most of us do not really think about classifying individual assets and liabilities as current and non-current. We do it…
How to Account for Employee Loans (interest-free or below-market interest)
After I wrote an article about capitalizing borrowing cost, I got a lot of e-mails asking me actually HOW to account for loans that do not bear the interest rate reflecting market conditions. In other words, how to account for loans at below-market interest rate,…
Recent Comments
- Silvia on How to Account for Decommissioning Provision under IFRS
- Silvia on What is the lease term of cancellable property rental contracts under IFRS 16?
- James Carter on How to Account for Decommissioning Provision under IFRS
- Moses Felix on IAS 16 Property, Plant and Equipment – summary
- Moses Felix on Summary of IFRS 5 Non-current Assets Held for Sale and Discontinued Operations
Categories
- Accounting Policies and Estimates (14)
- Consolidation and Groups (24)
- Current Assets (21)
- Financial Instruments (54)
- Financial Statements (48)
- Foreign Currency (9)
- IFRS Videos (65)
- Insurance (3)
- Most popular (6)
- Non-current Assets (54)
- Other Topics (15)
- Provisions and Other Liabilities (44)
- Revenue Recognition (26)