Hi,
I am a Chartered Accountant in India and am interested in learning IFRS.
Can somebody tell me whether there is any institution through whom I can do some formal course like diploma on IFRS.
Else how does one upgrade himself to know more about IFRS.
This being one of the big oppurtunity to grab in India, I would like to learn about IFRS.
Regards
Asif
 

Dear Asif
 
Deloitte’s website has a proper training material which requires lots of data to be downloaded, but is very comprehensive.
 
I am sure it would help you.
 
Regards
 

Ashish

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Hi

 
Please let me know the salient points in IFRS 7 which has been recently been made a mandatory disclosure in the audited financial statements.
Regards
Raghavan
 

 
Under IFRS 7 there are 12 requirements:
 

Requirement 1
Reconciliation of carrying amounts by classes of financial instruments to IAS 39 measurement categories (at least these categories are HTM, AFS, FVTPL, Loans and Receivables). An entity shall make the decision which classes of financial instruments are appropriate to the nature of the information disclosed taking into account the characteristics of those financial instruments.

Requirement 2
Description of processes for managing the …

Dear Collegue,
How do we recognise the revenue in Building Construction company.
Illustrate with good/understandable example.
Can anybody focus on it ?
Thanks in advance

Hi

Revenue to be recognized on the basis of percentage of completion POC basis. If you got contract to built builiding for a some one than POC method may suits you.

Actual cost divided by Estimated cost and then multiply by estimated revenue to recognized the portion of revenue recognised or if engineer can identify the percentage of construction completed you can use than percentage to …

Hi ,

If provision for Bonus was taken in 2007 for X amount and financial statements for 2007 closed and reported , and in 2008 the payout of Bonuses was more than the provisions amount. As per IFRS , what is acceptable??
1- should we classify the over expensed amount as Prior year expenses ( is this accp as per IFRS )
2- should i expense this amount in 2008 ?
I used to do this as prior year expenses , but i heard that as per IFRS now we should …

Dear Fellow Members
I need your suggestions & explanations on below stated matter. If possible, please suggest with references of IAS.
An office is located in a bungalow, which is acquired on rent; the rent is paid in advance for a period of 1 year & the agreement is revised at the end of the term. It is mutually agreed that the bungalow will remain in the company’s possession for 5 – 8 years at least. We had to build rooms on the roof top, my …

As per the amended IAS 23, all borrowing costs on qualifying assets should be capitalised (no option to expense).
Does exchange differences on foreign currency loans qualify as borrowing costs to be capitalised?
Best regards
Allan

Hi Allan

To my understanding any positive/negative FX difference is expensed directly to the P&L.

Regards,
Marc

The change to IAS23 will come into force on Jan 2009. So far that is only allowed alternative, the benchmark tre
atment is to expense.
The exchange differences on foreign currency should be included to assets under construction and therefore capitalised. After capitalisation of qualifying asset any exchange …

Dear All 
i am working in a home finance company which is subsidary of german company, due to which we are require to prepare the financial from IGAAP to IFRS.
i have the following questions:-
1.we take a loan and in taking loan that we usually pay a processing fee.
2. we pay security deposit for taking Building on rent.
3. we pay Fringe benefit tax on varoius items
 
i want to know,how the above mentioned items will be Accounted in Books in IFRS.
thanks in advance
Vivek

Hi , I had read IAS 32-39 and if you like …

Dear Vatsla
can you answer my following question in details.
1. we take a loan  and pay processing fee for taking loan.
for eg. if we take a loan of rs 10 lacs , we generally pay processing fee of rs.50000. if you see the net amount in hand is rs 9.5 lacs
As per Indian Generally Accepted Accouting Prolices(IGAAP), we recognise the loan at rs. 10 lacs and rs 50000 is expensed off in the year in which loan is taken.
But in IFRS  treatment for this is different.  can you favour me to …

Dear All,
 
Good day ahead………….
 
We have purchased shares of a company as an investment only. We have purchased as lot by lot from the year 2005 onwards until year 2007 and it is now 110000 shares valuing  USD 2.5 mn and we have got bonus shares of 10% of the holding on March 2008. Now we have sold 28000 shares  on April 2008. All the shares we have purchased from share market only with different prices.
 
My issue is how I can co-relate the sale with the cost of investment, like first in …

Dear all
Please help in deciding what items can be regarded as cash equivalents
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Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Lina

Cash equivalents are financial instruments that can be easily converted to cash, have high liquidity like stock of quoted companies.

Best Regards.
Alberto

Lina,
I woul suggest to take a look into IAS 7.6: Short term, highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to known amounts of cash and which are subject to an insgnificant risk of changes in value. Normally only an investment with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition.
Regards
Ingo

It usually includes …

Hello all!
We are currently assessing the impact of converting from our local GAAP to IFRS to prepare for a 2011 conversion. In this first diagnostic step, we hope to capture IFRS issues by account line item, divided into 4 main categories; accounting impact(disclosure and gap), system impact, business impact and people impact. (i.e. what would be the impact to the business on PP&E changes) We’re looking to bring in one of the major audit firms to guide us on this step. From this matrix, we hope to create a detailed …

Hi everyone
I want to know the difference between IFRS and IAS.  As, there are IAS 1 to 41 standards already existing then why IFRS 1 to 8 was developed.
Secondly, are these two standards working parallel to each other or IAS is abondoned and now IFRS is working?
If someone could please guide me.Well I am “sorry” to ask a basis question from honourable members.
Sincerely,

Salman

See this link for the first question,

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Financial_Reporting_Standards
 
The second Q: yes they are parallel, as long as an IAS is not replaced by an IFRS it remains valid. Companies …

Hi all!
Can you tell me the journal entry of this prblem…
Goods sold Rs.10000
Discount on cash payment 5% 
Add tax 4%
Plz journalize it!

Sales                    10.000 Credit
Sales discounts          500 Debit
Tax payable               380  Credit
Cash                      9.880 Debit

Is this IFRS related? Or is this an accounting course exercise?
Cagri Gurses wrote:

Agree with the below. However, not sure if he means 4% tax on the 10k or
inclusive in the 10 k. If over and above, then theJEs could look like this
as shown below (broken down for easy understamding). I dont think if it is
inclusive in the 10k that …

Hello all,
 
I was wondering what the best ways of getting a copy of IFRS would be?
And what the cheapest or any free ways of getting a copy are? (Electronic is fine)
 
Specifically those relating to getting a company ready for an IPO.
 
Thanks
 
Mark

 
Ali
 
http://212.135.140.61/contentMenu.asp

Is registration free of charge?

Use this link

http://www.ccdg.gov.sg/frs/index.htm
These are Singapore FRS, identical to IAS and IFRS (added 100 to the IFRS number),
Kind regards,
Henk

 
 
Yes free of charge

Thanks that looks great!
 

Please check the following link. Its the e-learning page of Deloitte designed for IFRS

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Hello,
Does anyone know where the best place to find
information on capitalizing internal software
development under IFRS?  Any links?  Which IAS/IFRS
standard is this covered under?
Thanks in advance for the help!

You raise an interest topic David,  I would like to see the view of others

In the meantime page 56 of the differences between IFRS and US GAAP might help you as in the latter some software deveopment costs can be capitalised which would imply that under IFRS they are not but let us see what the others say

I am sending this to you …

Dear all,
Could someone help me with guidelines on
setting up an internal audit department which
none existed before.
 
Or refer me to the necessary IAS
Many Thanks
 
 

Kindly visit www.theiia.org
You could download the IIA standards/frameworks and other materials/guidance
or professional help you will need.

 
 
Dear James,

I would be difficult to send an procedural guidelines on setting up internal audit departement as we need to look at various areas of operation. Every company has and works under different dynamics.
 
Daya

iam an internal ausditoe having 25 years of internasl auditing exposure

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Please tell me the number and subjects of international accounting and audit standards boards
thanks a lot
fakhkhari

Hi,It is IAS19, pension liability for defined benefit plans.
Met vriendlijke groet / best regards,
Pieter

 
Hi,

Could some one mail me  IAS18 ,IAS 11 and IAS 19.
 
Thanks
Sanjana

Use this link

http://www.ccdg.gov.sg/frs/index.htm

 
 
dear henk,

would you plz confirm that these standard are implemented internationally or released by singapore govt in compliance with singapore SEC rules.
 
i ve surfed the sites of renowned audit/consultancy firms i.e KPMG, PWC & some of the others who have promulgated some, but not all, of IFRS/IAS in PDF with detailed commentary, practical …

Hi All,
 
I am trying to determine if the IFRS financial statements of non listed companies are much different from the IFRS financial statements of listed companies.
 
I am looking for Financial Statements of non listed companies, it doesn’t matter what country it’s from. Example, dummy or “empty” reports are useful as well. Any help would be very much appreciated.
 
Kind Regards,
 
Jaap

The IFRS financial statements for non-listed companies are not much different from those of listed companies save for the fact that certain standards are mandatory for listed companies or those planning a …

Hi,
What disclosures does a company need to give for Interest rate swaps and which standards are applicable for this.
Thanks
Aneel

Hi Prethy

Actually available for sale is an open category that means that if company did not decide where to classify it can be classified as  available for sale. However for held for trading investments are bought to resell for short term gain rather to earn dividend but available for sale normally includes investment which are not held for short term gain rather which are carried for earning long term capital gain or dividend …

Hi All
This is Muhammad Naveed
I have a query regarding the consolidation of subsidiaries. Does IAS-27 allow us to not consolidate subsidiaries which are immaterial for the group?
Is it specifically mentioned somewhere in IAS?
 
Regards
Muhammad

Well Naveed
Actually materiality is an underlying concept of the Financial Statements.So anything which is immaterial needs not to be disclosed or adjusted.
 
Thanks and regards

IAS 1 is the overall standard to refer to:

Materiality and Aggregation
29.        Each material class of similar items shall be presented separately in the financial statements.  Items of a dissimilar nature or function shall be presented separately unless …