International Accounting Standards Board: Developments in IFRS

Michael Stewart, Takashi Yamagami, Jawaid Dossani and Bernadette Whittick give an overview of some of the issues discussed at the September 2015 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting, including IFRS 5 Non-current Assets held for Sale and Discontinued Operations—Allocation of impairment losses to non-current assets within a disposal group and presentation of intragroup transactions between continuing and discontinued operations, IFRS 11 Joint Arrangements—Remeasurement of previously held interests in various transactions, IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement—Separation of an embedded interest rate floor from a floating rate host contract in a negative interest rate environment, and IFRS 9 Financial Instruments and IAS 28 Investments in Associates and Joint Ventures: Impairment of long-term interests.