Marshall: time for transparency on judgments and estimates

Investors want financial statements to clearly explain the judgments and estimates made, but companies often obscure the detail. Andrew Marshall FCA, senior technical partner at KPMG, considers whether the latest FRC thematic review will improve the situation

Towards the end of last year, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) announced that it would be undertaking three new thematic reviews on financial reporting matters. The areas under focus are pension disclosures, reporting of alternative performance measures (APMs) and significant accounting judgments and sources of estimation uncertainty. 

Having written in a recent column for Accountancy / CCH Daily on APMs, this time I want to focus on the last of those three, judgments and estimates.

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