Bramasol

JULY 22, 2023

From a global perspective, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), which was established by the IFRS in November 2021 at COP26 in Glasgow, has issued its first two standards. IFRS S1 requires companies to communicate the sustainability risks and opportunities they face over the short, medium, and long term.

IFRS 87

IFRS Accounting SAP Compliance 87

CFO Talks

MARCH 2, 2023

It’s an international brand, one of the top manufacturers and suppliers of this equipment, who are your typical clients? I leave the younger generation to worry about the technicalities in the IFRS books, in the tax books, that’s what you have the specialist skills in the business for.

Auditing 98

Auditing CFO IFRS Construction 98

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?

IFRS 52

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

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

Musings on Markets

JULY 14, 2021

Between 1897 and 1905, for instance, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing neither published an annual report, not held a shareholder meeting. In the years before the First World War, the demands for more disclosure came from critics of big business, concerned about their market power, but few companies responded.

GAAP 52

GAAP Forecasting Accounting Numbers 52

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