April monthly news summary
Please find below a brief summary of news and events from the IFRS®
Foundation over the past month:
Webinars on ISSB’s exposure drafts
Recordings of the two live webinars held by the International Sustainability
Standards Board (ISSB) on 28 April 2022 are now available. In
these webinars, the ISSB discussed its proposed standards on general
sustainability-related disclosures and climate-related disclosures.
Meeting updates and summaries
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The IFRS Interpretation Committee met on 20 April 2022.
ISSB establishes working group to enhance compatibility between global baseline and jurisdictional initiatives
The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) announced the formation
of a working group of jurisdictional representatives to
establish dialogue for enhanced compatibility between the ISSB’s exposure drafts
that are currently open for comment and ongoing jurisdictional
initiatives on sustainability disclosures.
Pension Benefits that Depend on Asset Returns—Project Summary has been published
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has published a Project
Summary on its research project Pension Benefits that Depend on Asset
Returns. Project summaries are overviews of information
already available to the public through IASB meeting papers.
Q1 2022 Interpretations Committee podcast
Call for members—International Accounting Standards Board
IFRS Foundation establishes ISSB presence in Montreal
The IFRS Foundation and Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA
Canada) announced an agreement to establish the Montreal centre of the
International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). The
Montreal centre will host key functions on behalf of the ISSB, including the
coordination of activity across the Americas.
IASB call for research on Making Materiality Judgements
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) is looking to partner with
a small number of national standard-setters to obtain research
evidence about the effects of recent changes and additions to
its literature applicable to making materiality judgments.
IFRS Foundation publishes 2021 Annual Report
March 2022 IASB podcast
In this episode of the latest International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
podcast, IASB Chair Andreas Barckow and Executive Technical
Director Nili Shah discuss the topics that were on the agenda for the March 2022
IASB meeting.