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Our ‘Insights into MFRS 3’ series summarises the key areas of the Standard, highlighting aspects that are more difficult to interpret and revisiting the most relevant features that could impact your business. This article discusses how to identify the date of acquisition or the date the business combination is affected.

Business combinations are infrequent transactions that are unique for each occurrence. MFRS 3 ‘Business Combinations’ contains the requirements and despite being fairly stable in the ten years since its been released, still provides challenges when accounting for these transactions in practice.

Mergers and acquisitions are becoming more and more common as entities aim to achieve their growth objectives. MFRS 3 ‘Business Combinations’ contains the requirements for these transactions, which are challenging in practice.

There are several accounting considerations the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered in relation to MFRS 9. In our view one of the most significant is in relation to hedge accounting and highly probable cash flows.

‘Insights into MFRS 3’ series summarises the key areas of the Standard, highlighting aspects that are more difficult to interpret and revisiting the most relevant features that could impact your business.

The COVID-19 global pandemic has resulted in economic consequences that many reporting entities may not have had to previously consider. One of those consequences is their ability to repay loans. In response, some lenders have agreed to changing the borrowing terms or providing waivers or modifications to debt covenant arrangements. Any changes to the terms of loan agreements, for example providing any kind of payment holidays on either principal or interest or changing interest rates, should be carefully assessed.

MFRS 129 ‘Financial Reporting in Hyperinflationary Economies’ requires the financial statements of any entity whose functional currency is the currency of a hyperinflationary economy to be restated for changes in the general purchasing power of that currency so that the financial information provided is more meaningful.

When accounting for lease incentives in accordance with MFRS 16 ‘Leases’ from a lessee perspective, questions may arise in how to identify a lease incentive and when the accounting treatment changes depending on how the lease incentive is granted. This publication aims to resolve these lessee accounting questions.

When accounting for lease incentives in accordance with MFRS 16 ‘Leases’ from a lessee perspective, questions may arise in how to identify a lease incentive and when the accounting treatment changes depending on how the lease incentive is granted. This publication aims to resolve these lessee accounting questions.

The Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB) has published Interest Rate Benchmark Reform Phase 2 (Amendments to MFRS 9, MFRS 139, MFRS 7, MFRS 4 and MFRS 16), finalising its response to the ongoing reform of interest rate benchmarks around the world.

The Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB) has issued Amendments to MFRS 17 'Insurance Contracts' (the Amendments). The MASB also issued an amendment to the previous insurance standard MFRS 4, 'Extension of the Temporary Exemption from Applying MFRS 9 (Amendments to MFRS 4)' so that entities can still apply MFRS 9 'Financial Instruments' alongside MFRS 17

The Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB) has issued an amendment to defer the effective date of the ‘Classification of Liabilities as Current or Non-current’ which amends MFRS 101 ‘Presentation of Financial Statements’ by one year.

The impact of COVID-19 is expected to have a significant impact on the going concern assumption for a large number of entities. Some entities which were previously a going concern may no longer be. Many entities will need to apply significant judgement and will be required to consider the impact of material uncertainties in assessing the entity’s ability to continue as a going concern.

Effective for financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2019, IC Interpretation 23 ‘Uncertainty Over Income Tax Treatments’ (‘the Interpretation’) requires entities to consider the potential for adverse tax determinations being made by taxing authorities while under a hypothetical tax review and record a liability (and expense) where such a finding is considered “probable”. Many entities may not experience a financial impact as a result of this, but the Interpretation remains applicable and certain disclosures may be appropriate.

In this article 'Considerations when preparing financial statements and using alternative performance measures' we set out various ways to enhance communication on how the pandemic has impacted the financial position and performance of any reporting entity. These include sensitivity analysis, the use of alternative performance measures and changing line items that have previously been disclosed within the financial statements.

In accordance with MFRS 110 ‘Events after the Reporting Period’, entities are required to distinguish between subsequent events that are adjusting (ie those that provide further evidence of conditions that existed at the reporting date) and non-adjusting (ie those that are indicative of conditions that arose after the reporting date). Entities are required to update the carrying amounts of any assets or liabilities recognised in their financial statements to reflect any adjusting events that occur during the subsequent events period.