Agenda for the April 2024 IFASS meeting

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05 Apr 2024

The International Forum of Accounting Standard Setters (IFASS) will meet on 17-19 April 2024. The meeting will be held in Seoul.

The full agenda for the meeting is summarised below.

Wednesday, 17 April 2024 (9:00–16:50)

  • Welcome and opening remarks
  • Accounting for carbon credits/environmental credits
    • Presentations by the AcSB and the FASB
  • Intangibles and digital/crypto assets
    • Presentations by the KAI and the UKEB
  • Parallel sessions
    • Financial reporting: 
      • Panel discussion on financial instruments with characteristics of equity (DRSC, AASB, AcSB, CASC, KAI, OIC)
    • Sustainability reporting:
      • Presentations on digital reporting (XBRL International, EFRAG, ISSB, ARDF)
  • IPSASB update
  • IASB Update
  • Business combinations — Disclosures, goodwill and impairment
    • Presentation by the IASB
    • Presentations on jurisdictional perspectives (AcSB, ANC)
  • Artificial intelligence in standard setting
    • Presentations and moderated Q&A (IASB)

Thursday, 18 April 2024 (9:00-17:05)

  • Sustainability reporting developments and IFRS Sustainability Disclosures Standards adoption
    • Presentations by the KAI, the ISSB, and EFRAG
  • Parallel sessions
    • Financial reporting: 
      • Presentations on rate-regulated activities (OIC, DRSC, UKEB)
    • Sustainability reporting:
      • Presentations on guidelines to support climate disclosures and transition plans (HKICPA, XRB, UK FRC, LCACM, Transition Plan Taskforce, DASC)
  • Application of materiality in sustainability reporting
    • Panel discussion (CINIF, DASC, ISSB, SSBJ, XRB)
  • Parallel sessions
    • Financial reporting: 
      • Presentation on the understandability of accounting standards (AASB)
      • Presentation on the accounting of financial instruments (ICAI)
      • Presentations, breakout sessions and report back on IFRS 19 Subsidiaries without Public Accountability (XRB, AASB, UKEB)
    • Sustainability reporting:
      • ISSB update on agenda and workplan
      • Presentation on nature disclosures (TNFD)
      • Panel discussion on social disclosures (DRSC, International Labor Organisation, CSSB, Hankuk University)

Friday, 19 April 2024 (9:00-16:35)

  • Way forward
    • Remarks by IFASS Chair
  • Post-implementation review of IFRS 16 Leases - Jurisdictional perspectives
    • Panel discussion with AcSB, ANC, ASBJ, CASC
  • Connectivity and boundaries within the annual report (case study, net-zero commitment disclosures)
    • Presentations by EFRAG and the AASB
  • IFRS 18 General Presentation and Disclosures
    • Presentation and Q&A on each of the main aspects (IASB)
  • Sustainability reporting - Jurisdictional updates
    • Presentations by the ARDF, the XRB, the CFC, the KAI, the AASB, the FRC Nigeria, and the US SEC
  • Closing remarks

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