scholarly journals International Financial Reporting standard for Small and Medium-sized entities

Author(s):  
Z Koppeschaar

<p>The International Financial Reporting Standard for Small and Medium-sized entities (IFRS for SMEs) was published as a standard by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) during July 2009. During 2007 South Africa became one of the first countries and the first country in Africa to early accept the proposed accounting standard (exposure draft of an IFRS for SMEs). The accounting standard will probably also be accepted by numerous other countries. The aim of this article is to investigate the applicability of this accounting standard. The results indicated that the IFRS for SMEs remains too comprehensive for the majority of small companies. The IFRS for SMEs does not satisfy the needs of South African users of small company financial statements, and as a result the accounting requirements should be simplified.</p><p><strong>KEYWORDS:</strong> Financial accounting; Financial reporting requirements; IFRS for SMEs; Small companies; Users of financial statements; Small company financial statements.</p>

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-181
Author(s):  
Muanas Muanas ◽  
Zahra Argadia Garini

As a member of G-20 Forum, Indonesia starts to adopts the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) as a requirement to fulfill the demands and needs of financial statements users. The adoption of international accounting standards into national accounting standards aim to create financial statements that have high level of credibility and accountability. IFRS requests the requirement of high level of disclosure items so the value of companies will increase, management will have high level of accountability to run the company, that allows changes on the financial statements, for example that can change the length of financial statements. The purpose of this study is to know the effect of IFRS adoption on the length of financial statements, and to know the content of financial statements before and after IFRS adoption. This study was conducted by dividing financial statements into two sections, which are major statements and notes to the financial statements.  The financial statements used in this study are 2008 and 2013. The sample was selected by purposive sampling method and analyzed using parametric and non-parametric tests. Results of this study show that major statements and notes to the financial statements experienced an increase in length after adopting IFRS. Notes to financial statements experiencing the most significant increase in length after adopting IFRS. On the major statements, the increase is caused by other comprehensive income account. While on the notes to the financial statements, increase is caused by implementation of  PSAK 1 which requires the high level of disclosures. The increase mainly occured in accounting policy on the financial statements.


Author(s):  
ELENA MERINO MADRID ◽  
REGINO BANEGAS OCHOVO ◽  
JESÚS FERNANDO SANTOS PEÑALVER

LA RETRIBUCIÓN QUE HACEN LAS EMPRESAS A SUS DIRECTIVOS Y EMPLEADOS MEDIANTE LA ENTREGA DE OPCIONES SOBRE ACCIONES (STOCK OPTIONS) SE HA CONVERTIDO EN UNA PRÁCTICA HABITUAL EN MUCHOS PAÍSES DEL MUNDO. HASTA FECHAS RECIENTES NO EXISTÍA UN CONSENSO SOBRE EL TRATAMIENTO CONTABLE QUE SE DEBÍA DAR A ESTE TIPO DE TRANSACCIONES; SIN EMBARGO, EN LA ACTUALIDAD PARECE QUE TAL CONSENSO SE HA ALCANZADO AL EXIGIR TANTO EL INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD (IASB) COMO EL FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD (FASB), EN LA INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARD, IFRS 2 (NIIF 2, NORMA INTERNACIONAL DE INFORMACIÓN FINANCIERA) Y STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS (SFAS) 123 (R) RESPECTIVAMENTE, QUE SE RECONOZCA LA REMUNERACIÓN BASADA EN LA ENTREGA DE OPCIONES SOBRE ACCIONES COMO UN GASTO EN LOS ESTADOS FINANCIEROS. EL OBJETIVO DE ESTE TRABAJO ES ANALIZAR EL TRATAMIENTO CONTABLE APLICABLE DE ACUERDO CON LA NORMATIVA CONTABLE INTERNACIONAL O DE INFORMACIÓN FINANCIERA (NIC/NIIF).


Author(s):  
António Cariano ◽  
Fábio Henrique ferreira de Albuquerque ◽  
Manuela Marcelino ◽  
Nuno Rodrigues

Objetivo: O estudo pretende analisar a potencial existência de lobbying no processo de substituição da International Accounting Standard (IAS) 17 pela International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 16, emitidas pelo International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) e relativas às locações. Método: Foram recolhidas 641 comment letters submetidas à consulta pública no âmbito do Exposure Draft revisto (2013). O estudo adota a análise de conteúdo como método, sendo os dados posteriormente submetidos a técnicas de análise estatística univariada e bivariada. Resultados: Os resultados sugerem a existência de lobbying a partir da constatação de divergências significativas entre entidades financeiras e não financeiras no que diz respeito às questões principais da norma, relacionadas com o reconhecimento e com o modelo único de contabilização das locações. Contribuições: Aferir a existência de diferenças significativas de opinião indiciadoras de lobbying no âmbito de um projeto de substituição de norma promovido pelo Iasb e, em função dos distintos interesses envolvidos (lobbies), constitui, assim, o principal contributo da presente investigação.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-169
Author(s):  
Desi Efrianti ◽  
Yanto .

Disclosure of financial statements is a mean of delivering information by the company’s internal to stakeholders outside of the company. On this globalization era, IASC (International Accounting Standard Committee) tries to create a custom standard for all in order to financial statement can be understood by all users in different countries, and so the IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standard) is published. It certainly brings a big impact on accounting study in Indonesia. One of those is about convergence of IFRS into PSAK as base of financial reporting as one form of disclosure to stakeholders outside of the company. This study was conducted to obtain empirical evidence about the effect of the implementation IFRS on the disclosure of financial statements as measured by leverage in this case the Gray index. The populations in this study are all listed banks in Indonesia Stock Exchange for the period of 2009-2014. Sample was 30 banking firms selected using purposive sampling method with predetermined criteria. Independent variable is in the form of leverage Gray index. Analysis used in this study is a descriptive analysis and simple linear regression analysis with SPSS as tool for calculation. The result showed the implementation of IFRS in the leverage Gray index has no effect on financial disclosure. Conclusions of the research are implementation of IFRS itself has effect on the financial disclosure but Gray index leverage has no significant effect under the IFRS standards. Result from t-test value is -0.122 and smaller than t-table value of 2.048. Thus, the variable of Gray index leverage is not recommended to be used to measure the width of financial reports disclosures under the standards of IFRS. There are still many aspects to be studied to determine the effect of accounting standards using other representations of company characteristics.


Author(s):  
Olga Shinkareva

The article is devoted to the analysis of the Federal Accounting Standard of Public Finance “Payments to Personnel”, which will be applied in the conduct of accounting and reporting from January 1, 2021, including medical state and municipal institutions. The article considers the main provisions of this standard — peculiarities of recognition and evaluation of objects of personnel benefits accounting, termination of their recognition, as well as disclosure of information on objects of personnel benefits accounting in accounting financial statements. This standard is compared with the International Public Sector Financial Reporting Standard 39 “Employee Benefits”


2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (65) ◽  
pp. 124-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odilanei Morais dos Santos ◽  
Ariovaldo dos Santos

Este trabalho tem como objetivo identificar os fatores determinantes à submissão de cartas comentários, como estratégia de lobbying no contexto da regulação contábil, à audiência pública do Discussion Paper Extractive Activities do International Accounting Standards Board IASB).Os resultados mostram o tamanho como fator determinante, em todas as modelagens utilizadas, indicando que grandes empresas petrolíferas possuem maior probabilidade para realizar lobbying. Essa propensão é verificada para posicionamentos essencialmente desfavoráveis às propostas apresentadas pelo IASB, o que implica em considerar que a revisão/substituição do International Financial Reporting Standard -IFRS6 será um processo complexo e sujeito a pressões por parte das empresas petrolíferas para manter o status quo.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deddy Kurniawansyah

This literature study explains and describe the development of the concept of goodwill from the perspective of accounting by observing and describing until the development at this time, discusses differences in accounting standards of goodwill applicable in some countries, and explains the things that contradict the goodwill. This research method used qualitative with literature study. The results of this study are in some countries, the concepts and rules on goodwill accounting have undergone various changes, including international accounting standards issued by the IASC. Initially goodwill is capitalized and amortized over no more than 20 years. But, along with the increasing use of fair value accounting in accounting standards, thetreatment for goodwill also experienced a shift that is eliminated by the amortization method is replaced by doing impairment test to goodwill. The results of this study contribute as add to the treasury of financial accounting literature, especially accounting treatment of goodwill as intangible assets in the financial statements of various countries such as Indonesia, America and the England.Keyword :Goodwiil, Impairment, Financial Accounting Standard


2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tongyu Cao ◽  
Hasnah Shaari ◽  
Ray Donnelly

Purpose This paper aims to provide evidence that will inform the convergence debate regarding accounting standards. The authors assess the ability of impairment reversals allowed under International Accounting Standard 36 but disallowed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to provide useful information about a company. Design/methodology/approach The authors use a sample of 182 Malaysian firms that reversed impairment charges and a matched sample of firms which chose not to reverse their impairments. Further analysis examines if reversing an impairment charge is associated with motivations for and evidence of earnings management. Findings The authors find no evidence that the reversal of an impairment charge marks a company out as managing contemporaneous earnings. However, they document evidence that firms with high levels of abnormal accruals and weak corporate governance avoid earnings decline by reversing previously recognized impairments. In addition, companies that have engaged in big baths as evidenced by high accumulated impairment balances and prior changes in top management, use impairment reversals to avoid earnings declines. Research limitations/implications The results of this study support both the informative and opportunistic hypotheses of impairment reversal reporting using Financial Reporting Standard 136. Practical implications The results also demonstrate how companies that use impairment reversals opportunistically can be identified. Originality/value The results support IASB’s approach to the reversal of impairments. They also provide novel evidence as to how companies exploit a cookie-jar reserve created by a prior big bath opportunistically.


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