We have a procedure in place to ensure a high-quality translation, which involves a review by a committee of accounting experts. The committee is typically composed of representatives from accounting standard setting bodies or institutes, major accounting firms, government bodies (where applicable), and academics. The translations are reviewed carefully to ensure that the English and the translation both give the same message. If we are informed of any issues regarding a translation, we ask the review committee to consider them, and if necessary, revise the translation. Translation queries should be sent to Leilani Macdonald at
Lmacdonald@ifrs.org.
Since our last newsletter, the following translations have become available:
2012 Red Book: German (now online), Romanian (selected Standards), Spanish
2012 Requirements*: French and Hebrew
New and revised Standards issued in 2012: French (Requirements*), Spanish, Ukrainian (Requirements*)
2012 Technical Summaries: Spanish
Request for Information Comprehensive Review of the IFRS for SMEs: Spanish
2012 Briefing for Chief Executives: Spanish
There are a number of translations in progress:
2012 Red Book: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean
2012 Requirements*: Armenian, Kazakh, Russian, Ukrainian
Translations of other products currently in progress:
IFRS for SMEs: Estonian, German, Khmer
IFRS for SMEs training modules: Arabic, Spanish
2011 Requirements*: Khmer, Mongolian, Turkmen
2012 XBRL taxonomy: Arabic, Hungarian, Korean, Ukrainian
New and revised Standards issued in 2011: Simplified Chinese
Exposure Drafts are regularly translated into French and Japanese
*‘Requirements’ refers to the text used for the adoption of IFRSs into law, and does not include the accompanying material such as the Bases for Conclusions and Implementation Guidance.
For more detailed information on translations, please refer to the
Available Translations page on our website, and the work plan below.
Below please find a table detailing the languages and translations that we expect to take place in 2012.
Languages |
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Adoption—translation of Requirements+ |
SMEs‡ |
EDs |
XBRL |
SME Training |
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2. Albanian |
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3. Arabic |
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4. Armenian |
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5. Azeri |
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6. Belarusian |
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7. 7. Bosnian |
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8. Bulgarian |
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9. Chinese Traditional |
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10. Croatian |
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11. Estonian |
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12. Farsi |
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13. French |
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14. Georgian |
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15. German |
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16. Hebrew |
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17.Hungarian |
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18.Japanese |
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19. Kazakh |
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20. Khmer |
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21. Korean |
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22. Kyrgyz |
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23. Macedonian |
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24. Mongolian |
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25. Portuguese (Brazil) |
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26. Portuguese (European) |
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27. Romanian |
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28 Russian |
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29. Slovak |
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30. Spanish* |
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31. Tajik |
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32. Turkish |
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33. Turkmen |
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34. Ukrainian |
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35. Uzbek |
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* French and Spanish translations are directly managed by the IFRS Foundation translation team.
+ European languages covered by European adoption are not included in this list.
‡ Translations of the IFRS for SMEs that were completed before June 2012 have not been included (eg Albanian, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, French, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese).
This list is constantly changing. We regularly receive enquiries and hear of the need for new translations such as the XBRL Taxonomy and the
IFRS for SMEs. We wish to hear from you too. If you know of translation needs or have a question, please do not hesitate to contact us.