IFRS News

Global Insurance Accounting Rules Under IFRS17 to Be Amended

An international standard setting body has proposed a one-year delay and changes to the first global accounting rule for insurance contracts following industry calls for a cut in compliance costs and more time. The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) published …

New Global Insurance Accounting Rule Could Be Delayed One Year

A global standards body has proposed a one-year delay to implementing its new accounting rule aimed at increasing visibility in how insurers earn money, after the industry said it needed more time to prepare for such a sweeping change. A …

Global Insurers Face High Compliance Costs with New Accounting Rules

Insurers in over 100 countries face a “once in a lifetime” accounting change from January 2021 with the introduction of a uniform international book-keeping standard, details of which will be published on Thursday. Twenty years in the works, the new …

IASB Rules ‘On the Way’ to Becoming Global Accounting Standard

A top accounting rules setter said on Thursday it was well on the way to becoming the global standard in a veiled hint that the United States should get on board or risk being isolated. In roughly a decade, adoption …

Living with Solvency II; A Top Regulator Gives His Views

Solvency II, the European Union’s imminent imposition of new and more sophisticated risk based regulation of its insurers, may not be the only elephant in the room It is, however the main focus of a great deal of activity within …