Two AASB papers for the upcoming ASAF meeting

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25 Nov, 2016

The Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) has published two papers that will be discussed by members during the upcoming meeting of the Accounting Standards Advisory Forum (ASAF) at the IASB's offices in London on 8 and 9 December 2016: one on digital currency and one on country-by-country reporting.

Digital currency – A case for standard setting activity recommends the IASB develop a standard that addresses the accounting for investments in intangible assets or other commodity type assets that are not financial instruments or inventory as the current alternatives to account for digital currencies (IAS 2 or IAS 38) do not provide relevant information to users of financial statements and as this issue highlights a broader issue with IFRSs in that there is no accounting standard that deals with investments in intangible assets or other commodity type assets that are not financial instruments or inventory. Please click to access the paper on the AASB website.

The second paper offers an update on the AASB approach to country-by-country reporting and argues that while much of the tax transparency initiative to date has been driven by the tax authorities, as part of remaining relevant in an ever-changing regulatory environment, it is timely for accounting standard-setters to take a leadership role in improving income tax disclosures for users of financial reports. Please click to access the paper on the AASB website.

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