Pre-meeting summaries for the January 2021 IASB meeting

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20 Jan 2021

The IASB is meeting on Tuesday 26 January 2021, by video conference. We have posted our pre-meeting summaries for the meetings 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.

Board Work Plan Update: This is a regular update of the work plan. Within the next six months the IASB expects to finalise amendments related to three projects and publish consultation documents for six projects. The Board will not start any remaining research pipeline projects or the PIR of IFRS 5. Rather, as decided at the Board’s October 2020 meeting, the Board will obtain updated information about those projects as part of the 2020 Agenda Consultation to help reassess their relative priority. The Board will be asked at a future meeting to add a narrow-scope project on disclosure requirements in relation to supply chain financing arrangements.

Maintenance and Consistent Application—IFRIC Update: The IASB will discuss the December 2020 IFRIC Update.

Disclosure Initiative— Subsidiaries that are SMEs: The IASB is developing a Standard setting out reduced disclosure requirements for subsidiaries that apply IFRS Standards but meet the definition of an SME. At this meeting, the Board will discuss disclosures about cash-generating units containing goodwill and intangible assets with indefinite useful lives and the scope of the proposed Standard. The staff recommend that it apply to entities that, at any point during their reporting period, are subsidiaries of a parent presenting consolidated financial statements applying IFRS Standards and that the scope should not be limited to single entity financial statements. They also recommend that the consultation document should be an ED.

Primary Financial Statements: In December 2019, the IASB published Exposure Draft ED/2019/7 General Presentation and Disclosures. At the December 2020 meeting the Board began discussing summarised feedback from the 215 comment letters it received, outreach activities, fieldwork and a review of academic literature. The Board did not discuss four of the 11 papers and at this meeting will continue its discussions. The staff are also presenting a redeliberation plan.

Our pre-meet­ing summaries are available on our January meeting notes page and will be sup­ple­mented with our popular meeting notes after the meeting.

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