Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB)
- New research on materiality
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02 Nov 2023The Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) and the UK Financial Reporting Council (FRC) have published research reports on the topic of materiality.
- Major national standard setters concerned about connectivity
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12 Oct 2023The UK Endorsement Board (UKEB), the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB), Canadian Accounting Standards Board (AcSB), Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB), and the New Zealand External Reporting Board (XRB) have published a joint letter to the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) highlighting their common concerns regarding its recent agenda consultation.
- Research on transition relief in IFRS 16
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20 Oct 2022The Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) and the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB) have published their joint research report 'Transition Relief and Ongoing Practical Expedients in IFRS 16 'Leases''.
- MASB issues bulletins on Islamic accounting and MFRS 17 'Insurance Contracts'
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20 Aug 2021Over the last few months, the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB) has pulished three issues bulletins that discuss the application of MFRS 17 'Insurance Contracts' (equivalent to IFRS 17 'Insurance Contracts') to takaful, an Islamic or sharia compliant alternative to conventional insurance.
- Standard-setters split on whether to prohibit non-IFRS information in financial statements
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19 Oct 2017In March this year, the IASB published its discussion paper DP/2017/1 'Disclosure Initiative — Principles of Disclosure'. Comments were requested by 2 October, and 100 comment letters have by now been made available on the IASB website. An analysis shows that standard-setters are split on the question whether a general disclosure standard should prohibit an entity from including "non-IFRS information" or information that is inconsistent with IFRSs in its financial statements.
- Malaysia adopts framework for SMEs
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27 Oct 2015The Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB) has launched its financial reporting framework for private entities, Malaysian Private Entities Reporting Standards (MPERS).
- Survey on the transition experience in Malaysia
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25 Nov 2013The Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB) has released findings of a post-implementation survey of Malaysian companies on its Malaysian Financial Reporting Standards (MFRS) Framework, which are equivalent to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs). The survey considered a number of aspects of transition to, and ongoing compliance with, MFRS and also explored initiatives that the MASB could undertake to ensure continuing implementation of the MFRS Framework.
- Malaysia further extends IFRS transition timeline for certain entities
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08 Aug 2013The Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB) has announced that it will permit agriculture and real estate companies to defer the adoption of Malaysia's IFRS-compliant standards for a further year, until annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2015. The deferral of the mandatory application date for these entities responds to the expected timing of the IASB's projects on revenue recognition and bearer plants.
- MASB adopts statement of principles on management commentary
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01 Mar 2013The Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB) has issued Statement of Principles 3 'Management Commentary' (SOP 3), which is equivalent to the IASB IFRS Practice Statement 'Management Commentary'.
- MASB releases feedback statement on discussion papers on Islamic finance transactions
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04 Jan 2013The Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB) has published a feedback statement on three discussion papers exploring the accounting treatment of a number of Islamic financial transactions. For the time being, the MASB will refrain from issuing Technical Releases (TRs) based on the discussion papers and the feedback received although it had originally intended to do so because it wants to avoid the impression of creating local interpretations.