Pre-meeting summaries for the April IASB meeting
20 Apr 2018
The IASB meets at its offices in London on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 April 2018. We have posted our pre-meeting summaries for the meeting that allow you to follow the IASB’s decision making more closely. For each topic to be discussed we summarise the agenda papers made available by the IASB staff and point out the main issues to be discussed by the IASB and the staff recommendations.
The Board will discuss six topics.
Tuesday
Primary Financial Statements
At this meeting the Board will discuss clarifying the requirements for management performance measures (MPMs) and requirements for management-defined adjusted earnings per share (adjusted EPS) in the financial statements.
Business Combinations under Common Control
The purpose of this session is to provide an update to the Board on the approaches being developed by the staff for BCUCC transactions. It is an education session, which means that Board members are not being asked to make any decisions.
Wednesday
Goodwill and impairment
The Board will continue its discussions on the goodwill and impairment research project. At this meeting it will be asked whether it wants to change the requirement to recognise all identifiable assets acquired in a business combination separately from goodwill and whether the next stage in the project should be to issue a Discussion Paper or an Exposure Draft.
Dynamic Risk Management [Macro-hedging]
The Board will discuss qualifying criteria for the financial liabilities used to determine an entity’s target profile, the designation and de-designation of financial liabilities within the Dynamic Risk Management (DRM) model and corresponding documentation requirements.
Disclosure Initiative – Definition of Material
In 2017 the IASB published a proposal to amend the definition of material in IAS 1 and IAS 8. The comment period closed in January 2018. At this meeting the Board will discuss a general summary of the comments received on the exposure draft to amend the definition of material in IAS 1 and IAS 8. The Board is not being asked to make any decisions.
Implementation
The Board will review the activities of the IFRS Interpretations Committee. The discussion will include concerns raised by respondents about the Committee providing technical responses to highly-specific fact patterns submitted.
More information
Our pre-meeting summaries are available on our April meeting note page and will be supplemented with our popular meeting notes after the meeting.
