International reporting: November 2013

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) is taking a closer look at disclosures

The IASB has been working for the past year on what it calls its ‘disclosure initiative’ — an attempt to address a view among the financial reporting community that note disclosures are excessive. It has unveiled proposed changes to IAS 1, Presentation of Financial Statements, which are designed to remove obstacles to people applying the materiality threshold more effectively. The aim is to reduce unnecessary disclosures.

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