February

Updated IASB work plan — Analysis (February 2020)

28 Feb, 2020

Following the IASB's February 2020 meeting, we have analysed the IASB work plan to see what changes have resulted from the meeting and other developments since the work plan was last revised in January 2020.

Below is an analysis of all changes made to the work plan since our last analysis on 31 January 2020.

Stan­dard-set­ting projects

  • Disclosure initiative — Subsidiaries that are SMEs — Project has been retitled to indicate that the project is now considered as part of the disclosure initiative. No expected date is given on the current stage in the process.

Main­te­nance projects

  • Accounting policy changes (amendments to IAS 8) — A decision on the project direction is expected in the second quarter of 2020.
  • Availability of a Refund (Amendments to IFRIC 14) the Board decided at its February 2020 meeting not to finalise the amendment, however, Board members could not reach a conclusion on whether to take this matter forward in a different context or format.
  • Disclosure initiative Accounting policies — the Board discussed feedback on its exposure draft in its February 2020 meeting and removed the expected date for this stage from the work plan.

Research projects

  • Post-implementation Review of IFRS 10, IFRS 11 and IFRS 12 — Research review is expected in March 2020 (previously February 2020).

Other projects

  • Due Process Handbook — the revised Due Process Handbook is expected in April 2020.

The above is a faithful com­par­i­son of the IASB work plan at 31 January 2020 and at 28 February 2020. For access to the current IASB work plan at any time, please click here.

We comment on two IFRS Interpretations Committee tentative agenda decisions

14 Feb, 2020

We have published our comment letters on IFRS Interpretations Committee tentative agenda decisions related to IAS 12 and IAS 38, as published in the November 2019 IFRIC Update.

More in­for­ma­tion about the issues is set out below:

Issue

Agenda decision supported?

More in­for­ma­tion

IAS 12 — Multiple tax consequences of recovering an asset

Yes

IAS 38 — Presentation of player transfer payments

Yes; however, we are concerned that the discussion under the header “Is there a circumstance in which the entity would recognise the transfer payment received as revenue applying IFRS 15” may introduce diversity in practice in the presentation of player registration rights as intangible assets vs inventory where it does not currently exist. We believe that it would be useful to clarify the fact pattern presented consistently with the description provided in the submission by amending item b.

Click to access all our comment letters to the IASB, IFRS Foun­da­tion, and IFRS In­ter­pre­ta­tions Committee. 

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