Identifying a performance obligation
IFRSAccurate and consistent revenue recognition is a cornerstone of sound financial reporting for all businesses, ensuring comparability across industries and markets.
01 Feb 20171 min read
Overview
The Grant Thornton International IFRS team has published IFRS Viewpoint – Common control business combinations.
The IFRS Viewpoint series provides insights on applying IFRS in challenging situations. Each edition will focus on an area where the standards have proved difficult to apply or lack guidance.
This edition considers how to account for a common control business combination.
The issue
How should an entity account for a business combination involving entities under common control? This is an important issue because common control business combinations occur frequently but are excluded from the scope of IFRS 3 – the IFRS standard on business combination accounting.
Resource
The publication IFRS Viewpoint – Common control business combinations follows this Advisor alert
Accurate and consistent revenue recognition is a cornerstone of sound financial reporting for all businesses, ensuring comparability across industries and markets.
In April 2024, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issued IFRS 18 ‘Presentation and Disclosure in Financial Statements’, replacing IAS 1 ‘Presentation of Financial Statements’ for annual reporting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2027”.
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