CFO Talks

MARCH 2, 2023

You’ve got to have those business acumen skills, it’s not only about being a CA or knowing the IFRS textbook or your technical abilities, you’ve got to be able to broaden your horizon and have those key acumen skills as a modern day accountant. What are the biggest challenges that you face in your job right now?

Auditing 98

Auditing CFO IFRS Construction 98

Future CFO

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Tax rates, policies and subsidies can also differ depending on whether a location is in a free trade zone, a special economic zone, or a hi-tech industrial development zone, TMF Group noted. However, APAC and EMEA take a much more localised approach.

Compliance 40

Compliance IFRS GAAP Accounting Principles 40

Future CFO

MAY 15, 2023

This notion is reinforced by the World Uncertainty Index (see Figure 1 below), which measures the level of global uncertainty across a variety of economic, social, and political factors. In today's world, one thing is certain – uncertainty. Source: worlduncertaintyindex.com Figure 1: World Uncertainty Index Context setting: Why inflation?

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IFRS SAP Accounts Payable Compliance 52

CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

The last few years have been eventful for all companies, with the COVID crisis and ensuing economic shut down causing pain for companies, with recovery coming in 2021, as the global economy opened up again. IFRS and GAAP now treat as leases as debt, but that is still not the case in many other markets that are not covered by either standard).

Marketing 130

Marketing Hurdle Rate Investments Accounting 130

Planful

JULY 5, 2016

However, the revenue recognition guidance offered under US GAAP vs. IFRS has differed and was in need of improvement. In May of 2014 , the two bodies issued their converged guidance under ASC 606 and IFRS 15. As a result, different industries use different accounting for economically similar transactions.

Budgeting 40

Budgeting IFRS Planning GAAP 40

CFO Talks

JUNE 8, 2022

SAIBA CFO, Nicolaas van Wyk explains that currently, “the CFO is focusing on three reporting areas, the traditional IFRS, then secondly, business efficiencies, and then because of the difficult economic circumstances we are in, the only way that you can still maintain the bottom line is through better efficiencies.

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CFO IFRS Education Auditing 52

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The last few years have been eventful for all companies, with the COVID crisis and ensuing economic shut down causing pain for companies, with recovery coming in 2021, as the global economy opened up again. IFRS and GAAP now treat as leases as debt, but that is still not the case in many other markets that are not covered by either standard).

Hurdle Rate 80

Hurdle Rate Investments Accounting Entertainment 80

CFO Talks

MARCH 31, 2022

Give us a sense of business and economic conditions in Nigeria at the moment. Unfortunately, that slowed down economic activity because people couldn’t get around. Initially I was thinking about economics but then I changed my mind. It’s been fun, it’s a lot of work but it’s been fun.

CFO 40

CFO Finance IFRS Accounting 40

Musings on Markets

JULY 14, 2021

In the years since, disclosure requirements have changed and expanded, with companies in foreign markets creating their own rules in IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards), with many commonalities and a few differences from GAAP.

GAAP 52

GAAP Forecasting Accounting Numbers 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

For instance, I have always computed the present value of lease commitments in future years and treated that value as debt, a practice that IFRS and GAAP have adopted in 2019, but that computation requires explicit disclosures of lease commitments in future years.

Valuation 52

Valuation Currencies Numbers Corporate Finance 52

Simply Treasury

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

However, CFF’s ought to be consolidated (in IFRS format) at least quarterly, with a monthly review, with forecasts going forward to at least the end of the current financial year and with a subsequent review to explain the variances and to instil forecasting discipline. For many, CFFs are simply a sort of budget revision exercise.

Cash Flow Forecasting 130

Cash Flow Forecasting Forecasting Treasury Budgeting 130

CFO Talks

DECEMBER 26, 2021

So that you will eventually have the CFO focusing on three reporting areas, the traditional IFRS, then secondly, business efficiencies, and then because of the difficult economic circumstances we are in, the only way that you can still maintain the bottom line is through better efficiencies. The last one is then climate change.

CFO 40

CFO Profit and Loss Finance Accounting 40

Jedox Finance

JULY 11, 2023

5 Other sustainability reporting initiatives in development include those of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), developed by the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Compliance Profit and Loss 52

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Using the words of IFRS (1.7), ‘ Information is material if omitting, misstating or obscuring it could reasonably be expected to influence decisions that the primary users of general purpose financial statements make on the basis of those financial statements, which provide financial information about a specific reporting entity ’.

Profit and Loss 70

Profit and Loss Accounting Numbers IFRS 70

Bramasol

DECEMBER 14, 2023

According to the IFRS, "IFRS S1 and IFRS S2 are built on and consolidate the TCFD recommendations , SASB Standards , CDSB Framework , Integrated Reporting Framework and World Economic Forum metrics to streamline sustainability disclosures. 

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Technology SAP IFRS Compliance 90