Deloitte Canada IFRS transition newsletter
14 Mar 2009
Deloitte Canada has published a special March 2009 issue of their 'Countdown' newsletter on IFRS transition in Canada.
This special edition provides a summary of the Exposure Draft Adopting IFRSs in Canada, II released on 12 March by the Canadian Accounting Standards Board (AcSB). This is the second IFRS-specific exposure draft released by AcSB and builds on the April 2008 exposure draft. Topics covered include:
- Incorporation of IFRSs into the Handbook
- Proposed definition of a publicly accountable enterprise
- Confirmation of the effective date of IFRSs
- Exposure of new introductory material for the Handbook
- Exposure of changes to IFRSs since the 2007 bound volume (which was exposed in ED I)
- IFRS 1 First-time Adoption of IFRSs
- Emerging Issues Committee (EIC) Abstracts
- March 2009 Special Edition Countdown Newsletter – English (PDF 949k)
- March 2009 Special Edition Countdown Newsletter – French (Compte à Rebours) (PDF 718k)