All articles by Stephen Bouvier – Page 25
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NewsConsultants see IAS19 'sticking plaster' as important first step
[15:30 CEST 25-08] GLOBAL - Pensions and investments consultants have expressed general support towards a what is described as a "sticking plaster" move by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), allowing companies to discount defined benefit post-retirement obligations against a government bond rate where they cannot comply with existing rules.
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NewsIASB trips up in corridor
[16:15 CEST 31-07] GLOBAL - A bid by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to relax the requirements of IAS19 in respect of discount rate determination has run into the sand as staff and board have failed on three occasions to finalise transitional arrangements.
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Euro lottery
The final meeting of the IASB’s Standards Advisory Council in 2007 was memorable for two reasons. First, participants, including the German delegates, were required to stand and observe a one-minute silence to honour British war dead. Second, of particular interest to those Belgian entities hit by a recent IASB decision ...
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Altering IFRIC 14 is right - consultants
[16:50 CEST 05-06] EUROPE - Two major pensions consultancy firms have broadly welcomed the recent move by the IASB to amend its asset-ceiling interpretation of IFRIC 14.
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Belgian pensions hit by IAS19 review
BELGIUM – Belgian pension plan sponsors could face a double-whammy of problems as a result of recent decisions made by the International Accounting Standards Board, a pensions consultant has warned.
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IASB postpones IAS19 discount rate decision
[16:30 CEST 01-04] GLOBAL - The International Accounting Standards Board has deferred any shake-up of the current IAS19 AA-rated corporate bond discount until at least 2011.
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Coffee-break standard
For International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) chairman Sir David Tweedie, a short coffee break is also a chance to determine how businesses should present defined benefit (DB) pension costs in their financial statements.
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The OCI trap
At its 23 January meeting, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) voted to scrap the options in IAS19 that allow pension plan sponsors to defer the recognition of what are often referred to as actuarial gains and losses in a entity’s profit or loss account.
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A page or a phone book?
In case anyone has forgotten, the objective underpinning the IASB’s bid to overhaul IAS19 is to ensure that the users of financial statements, or analysts, have access to what the board likes to call timely and decision-useful information.
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'Flawed' IASB pensions measure to go in P&L
[15:15 CET 05-02] GLOBAL - The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has tentatively cleared a staff proposal that could see so-called pension plan remeasurements go straight into profit and loss on a company’s balance sheet, and possibly net of tax.
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FeaturesDebt dilemmas
The chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), Sir David Tweedie, might do well to listen a little more closely to Berlin than to Washington. In line with problems outlined in November last year by the executive chairman of Germany’s DRSC accountancy standard setter, Heinz-Joachim Neubürger (see end), ...
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IASB continues its comedy of errors
Further deliberation of the International Accouting Standards Board’s (IASB) preliminary views on pensions accounting kicked-off pretty much as we would expect, with staff failing to meet a self-imposed deadline, and a dose of unnecessary secrecy. The plan, said Andrea Pryde, on 19 November, was to “present an overview of the ...
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Happy Honecker: censorship lives
In the former East Germany, the Honecker regime cunningly blanked-out maps west of Berlin in a bid to foil escapes. This is an approach that the IASB’s pension team appears to have taken literally. An example is Paragraph 50 of the observer notes for the board’s December 2007 discussions: “A ...
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Criticism of IASB shifts to its corporate structure
[16:30 CEST 07-10] GLOBAL - Swiss pharmaceutical and diagnostics giant Roche has slammed proposals by the IASB's parent body, the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation, to create a seven-member oversight body comprised mainly of securities regulators to oversee the activities of the IASCF's trustees.
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NewsNew face to take on IASB pensions review
[16:30 CEST 26-09] GLOBAL - The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has moved to reassure constituents its pensions accounting project has adequate staffing following the departure last week of project team member Jenny Lee.
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Exceptions to the rule
The message from Anne McGeachin on international financial reporting standards (IFRS) was clear: "The IFRS must be applicable worldwide, and we therefore cannot go around exempting jurisdictions.
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IASB proposals could force status change for BASF pensions
[14:45 CEST 15-09] GERMANY - German multinational BASF AG has revealed around 95% of its active-member pension obligation will shift to the IASB's proposed fair value pension measure, if the standard-setter's recently-published proposals to reform pension accounting become GAAP.
