International Accounting Standards Board: Developments in IFRS

Darrel Scott, member of the International Accounting Standards Board, and Andrea Pryde, technical staff, report on the discussion at the May 2019 meeting of the Board about IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts.

Chair and Vice-Chair of the Board Hans Hoogervorst and Sue Lloyd join Technical Staff Member Matt Tilling to provide an update on the Board's latest meeting as well as on other developments this month. Hans covers his recent speech on sustainability reporting, the Board's work to update the Management Commentary Practice Statements and the Primary Financial Statements and Business Combinations projects. Sue provides a summary of the latest meeting of the TRG for IFRS 17 and summarises the Board discussions on IFRS 17. Other projects discussed include Goodwill and Impairment and Dynamic Risk Management.

Darrel Scott, member of the International Accounting Standards Board, and Andrea Pryde, technical staff, report on the discussion at the April 2019 meetings of the Transition Resource Group for IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts and of the Board.

Chair and Vice-Chair of the Board Hans Hoogervorst and Sue Lloyd join technical staff member Matt Tilling to discuss new appointments to the Board, possible narrow-scope amendments to IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements and IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts, classification of liabilities as current or non-current, guidance on the circumstances in which equity-settlement features affect liabilities, subsidiaries that are SMEs, a review of the SMEs Standard, the Discussion Paper on financial instruments with characteristics of equity and Primary Financial Statements.

Darrel Scott, member of the International Accounting Standards Board, and Andrea Pryde, technical staff, report on the discussion at the March 2019 meeting of the Board about IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts.

February's IASB podcast brings together Vice-Chair Sue Lloyd, Board member Darrel Scott and Technical Staff member Matt Tilling to discuss amendments to IFRS 17, IBOR reform, the IFRS for SMEs Standard, Management Commentary, Primary Financial Statements and more.

Darrel Scott, member of the International Accounting Standards Board, and Laura Kennedy, technical staff, report on the discussion at the February 2019 meeting of the Board about IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts.

Darrel Scott, member of the International Accounting Standards Board, and Roberta Ravelli, technical staff, report on the discussion at the January 2019 meeting of the Board about IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts.

Chair of the International Accounting Standards Board Hans Hoogervorst and Vice-Chair Sue Lloyd join IFRS Technical Staff member Matt Tilling to discuss the latest Board meeting and the road ahead. Hans discusses the proposed IFRS 17 amendments and the meeting of the Trustees. Sue examines those amendments as well the ones proposed for IAS 12 Income Tax. A roundup of key projects the Board is working on this year concludes the podcast.

The last monthly podcast of 2018 features Hans Hoogervorst and Sue Lloyd, Chair and Vice-Chair of the International Accounting Standards Board, together with Technical Staff Member Matt Tilling. They discuss the December meeting of the Board and other developments, including IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts, Primary Financial Statements, IBOR Reform, Rate-regulated Activities and ASAF.

Darrel Scott, member of the International Accounting Standards Board, and Roberta Ravelli, technical staff, report on the discussion at the December 2018 meeting of the Board about IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts.

Vice-Chair and Member of the International Accounting Standards Board Sue Lloyd and Darrel Scott join Technical Staff member Matt Tilling to provide a summary of the November Board meeting. Topics include the IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts and exception from applying IFRS 9 Financial Instruments, the objectives of management commentary, the Rate-regulated Activities project and others.

IASB member Darrel Scott and technical staff member Andrea Pryde report on the discussion at the November 2018 meeting of the Board regarding IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts.

Chair and Vice-Chair of the International Accounting Standards Board (Board) Hans Hoogervorst and Sue Lloyd join technical staff member Matt Tilling in a new IASB podcast to discuss the new insurance contracts Standard, IFRS 17, goodwill accounting, Primary Financial Statements, possible amendments to the IASB's Practice Statement on making materiality judgements in relation to accounting policy disclosures, potential work on IAS 12 and the income tax Standard, which has come to the Board from the IFRS Interpretations Committee as a consequence of the new leases Standard, IFRS 16.

IASB member Darrel Scott and technical staff member Roberta Ravelli report on the discussion at the October 2018 meeting of the Board regarding IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts.

Chair of the International Accounting Standards Board Hans Hoogervorst and Vice-Chair Sue Lloyd join the IFRS Foundation’s Education Director Matt Tilling for the September podcast to discuss the Board meeting and other developments that have taken place this month. Topics include Primary Financial Statements, Dynamic Risk Management, the upcoming World Standard-setters Conference, the IFRS Trustees' meeting and the IFRS Advisory Council meeting.

The Transition Resource Group for IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts (TRG) held a meeting on 26–27 September 2018 at the London office of the IFRS Foundation. This podcast summarises the discussion.

IFRS Advisory Council Chair Joanna Perry joins IFRS Foundation’s Education Director Matt Tilling to provide a summary of the September Advisory Council meeting. Topics from this meeting include: the interplay between stakeholder engagement and timeliness and how to balance these with due process, comment letters and whether a more flexible approach would encourage appropriate feedback from a wider range of stakeholders and the future of talent and how the Foundation can attract it in the future.

In this month’s podcast, the IFRS Foundation’s Education Director Matt Tilling is joined by IASB Chair Hans Hoogervorst and Vice-Chair Sue Lloyd to provide a summary of the main discussions during the July Board meeting as well as other developments and events that have taken place this month. The technical topics discussed include: goodwill and impairment, rate-regulated activities, accounting for cryptocurrencies and others.

Recorded in Frankfurt, during the IFRS Foundation’s annual international conference, Vice-Chair of the International Accounting Standards Board Sue Lloyd joins the IFRS Foundation’s Education Director Matt Tilling for the June podcast about the Board’s recent discussions and activities. Sue provides an overview of the conference, the Board’s consultation on Financial Instruments with the Characteristics of Equity and a joint FASB and IASB education meeting. Other topics from the IASB June meeting covered include the IFRS Taxonomy, the Board’s discussions on the definition of material, Business Combinations under Common Control and the Dynamic Risk Management projects.