In this special edition, Laura is joined by Craig Smith from the IASB technical staff, for an overview of the IASB's latest consultation on proposals aimed at improving reporting about acquisitions.

Exposure Draft Business Combinations—Disclosures, Goodwill and Impairment (open for comment until 15 July 2024)

https://www.ifrs.org/news-and-events/news/2024/03/iasb-consults-on-proposals-to-improve-reporting-of-acquisitions/

Climate-related commitments, post-acquisition handovers and the IFRS 9 post-implementation review.

In this month’s episode, Laura Kennedy is joined by Karsten Ganssauge for an overview of the March 2024 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting.

Find out more at PwC’s IFRS Talks 
https://viewpoint.pwc.com/dt/gx/en/pwc-ifrs-talks/PwC-IFRS-talks/Listen-to-the-latest-episode.html

Seven years since the IASB issued its most recent Standard (IFRS 17), 2024 is set to be the year of IFRS 18 and IFRS 19. And that 's not all. This month Laura is joined by Marie Kling and Netta Mikkilä to take a look at the IASB's standard-setting agenda for the year.

Find out more at PwC’s IFRS Talks homepage
https://viewpoint.pwc.com/dt/gx/en/pwc-ifrs-talks/PwC-IFRS-talks/Listen-to-the-latest-episode.html

Trust, tech and transformation. 

As we kick-off the new year, Laura Kennedy is joined by PwC’s Global Reporting Leader Nadja Picard, and Eleanor Larner from our global investor engagement programme to find out what investor’s want to know about how companies are managing crises and staying resilient, while creating and protecting long-term value in today’s fracturing world.

PwC’s Global Investor Survey 2023
https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/c-suite-insights/global-investor-survey.html

Does a company need to record a balance sheet liability for the costs associated with its net zero commitments?
In this month’s episode, Laura Kennedy is joined by Karsten Ganssauge and Scott Bandura for a special edition of our IFRIC Update, focusing on accounting implications of net zero commitments, as well as other climate-related matters.

Guidance referred to in this episode:
PwC 2023 Illustrative Consolidated Financial Statements (Appendix E: Impact of climate change on financial statements)
PwC In brief: ESMA’s report on disclosures of climate-related matters in the financial statements
PwC In depths:
Impact of ESG matters on IFRS financial statements
IFRS Financial reporting considerations for entities participating in the voluntary carbon market
Accounting for green/renewable power purchase agreements

In this month’s episode, Laura Kennedy is joined by Andy Wiggins and Gary Berchowitz to talk about the OECD’s global minimum tax (aka ‘Pillar Two’ or ‘GLoBE’).

Listen in for an overview of the rules, practical challenges, safe harbours, and accounting implications.

In this month's episode, Laura Kennedy is joined by Katie DeKeizer and Jan-Ben Wiese to talk about sustainability reporting.
Listen in for key developments so far in 2023, what's to come, and a guide to commonly used acronyms and terms including alphabet soup, double materiality and interoperability.
Guidance referred to in this episode: PwC’s global sustainability reporting page.

Join Laura Kennedy and Karsten Ganssauge as they discuss three topics from the June 2023 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting:
Energy contracts and the ‘own-use’ exemption from financial instrument accounting
Mergers between a parent and its subsidiary
Consolidation when the parent is hyperinflationary but the subsidiary is not

Join Raihazah Shaikh, Mark Randall and Laura Kennedy as they discuss the latest developments under IFRS 9 classification and measurement. Topics include:
An overview of what is involved in the post implementation review
The proposed amendments to IFRS 9 covering contractual cash flow characteristics and electronic cash payment systems.

Join Raihazah Shaikh and Karsten Ganssauge for an update of the March 2023 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting. Topics include:
Three new submissions: Homes and home loans provided to employees, Guarantee over a derivative contract and Premiums Receivable from an Intermediary;
Potential annual improvements on the accounting for lease payments forgiven (IFRS 9 and IFRS 16) and
Possible changes to the impairment test of cash-generating units containing goodwill.

How to account for carbon offsets and related costs? Claire Howells and Gina Huang join Raihazah Shaikh to share their perspectives on the accounting for carbon offsets and related costs from the perspective of a purchaser and the perspective of a project developer.

What do investors want to know about this reporting season? In this podcast, Hilary Eastman and Eleanor Leach join Raihazah Shaikh to share their perspectives.

Join Raihazah Shaikh and Henry Daubeney as they take stock of sustainability related reporting covering the three proposals, the ISSB S1 and S2 exposure drafts, the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and the SEC proposed climate rule. They also look ahead to developments that are expected in 2023

Join Raihazah and Karsten Ganssauge for an update on the November 2022 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting. Topics include assessing the definition of a lease when considering substitution rights and potential annual improvements to existing IFRS standards.

Join Raihazah Shaikh and Laura Kennedy for an overview of the accounting considerations in a rising inflation and interest rate environment. Topics include key themes to consider on the impact to the measurement and disclosures; examples of areas that might be impacted, and examples of where additional disclosures might need to be considered in accordance with IAS 1.

Join Raihazah and Karsten Ganssauge for an update on the September 2022 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting. Topics include three agenda decisions finalised on multi-currency groups of insurance contracts, accounting for warrants at acquisition in a SPAC transaction and lessor forgiveness of lease payments. The Committee also discussed the staff’s proposal on the IAS 21 amendments on lack of exchangeability.

Join Raihazah Shaikh and Gina Huang as they reflect on PwC’s learnings over the past year in relation to cloud computing arrangements following the IFRIC agenda decisions in March 2019 (Customer’s Right to Receive Access to the Supplier’s Software Hosted on the Cloud (IAS 38 Intangible Assets)) and March 2021 (Configuration or Customisation Costs in a Cloud Computing Arrangement (IAS 38 Intangible Assets)).

Join Raihazah Shaikh, Henry Daubeney and Scott Bandura for an overview of PwC’s response to the ISSB exposure drafts and a summary of next steps in sustainability related reporting.
Topics include key themes in PwC’s response letter, areas of focus in each individual exposure draft and an overview of other upcoming developments.

Join Raihazah Shaikh and Peter Flick where they discuss the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) exposure drafts released by EFRAG (European Financial Reporting Advisory Group). Topics include, the scope of the requirements, an overview of cross-cutting standards, the concept of double materiality and the climate exposure draft.

Join Raihazah and Karsten Ganssauge for an update on the June 2022 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting. The topics include the consolidation of a non-hyperinflationary subsidiary by a hyperinflationary parent and the application of IFRS 17 and IAS 21 to a group of insurance contracts with foreign currency cash flows.

Join Raihazah Shaikh and Nadja Picard, where they discuss a path towards further global alignment and adoption of sustainability reporting standards. They take a close look at the role of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and how the memorandum of understanding between the GRI and the IFRS foundation can establish reporting which looks beyond a global investor focussed baseline.

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Join Raihazah Shaikh and Andreas Ohl, where they discuss the SEC proposal on the Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors. Topics include an overview of the proposal and a summary of some of the similarities and differences with other similar proposals.

Join Raihazah Shaikh, Mark O’Sullivan and Scott Bandura, where they discuss the two new exposure drafts published by the International Sustainability Standards Board which consist of the general requirements for disclosure of sustainability-related financial information, and climate related disclosures.

Join Raihazah Shaikh and Karsten Ganssauge for an update on part 2 of the March 2022 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting, where they discuss the two issues relating to the accounting implications of special purpose acquisition companies, also referred to as SPACs.

Join Andrea Pryde and Karsten Ganssauge for an update on part 1 of the March 2022 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting. The topics include demand deposits with restrictions, recognition of profit for life contingent immediate annuity contracts, and the accounting for lease concessions.