The deadline for responses to the Request for Information:
Comprehensive Review of the IFRS for SMEs is 30 November 2012. To view the Request for Information and/or submit a comment letter
click here.
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issued the Request for Information in June 2012 as the first step in its comprehensive review of the
IFRS for SMEs. The objective of the Request for Information is to seek public views on whether there is a need to make any amendments to the
IFRS for SMEs and, if so, what amendments should be made.
The IASB has published a separate Microsoft Word Optional Response Document for respondents to use for submitting their comments if they wish to do so. This document may be downloaded
here. If you are prompted to enter a password when downloading this document please click
Cancel in the prompt dialog.
Arabic-language translations of Module 27
Impairment of Assets and Module 31
Hyperinflation of the
IFRS for SMEs training material are now available. In total, 30 Arabic-language modules are available for download from the IFRS Foundation website and they can be accessed
here.
The IFRS Foundation is grateful to the Arab Society of Certified Accountants (ASCA) Jordan for facilitating and funding the translation of the training material.
Here is the current status of translations of the
IFRS for SMEs approved by the IFRS Foundation:
Completed: Albanian*, Arabic, Armenian*, Bosnian*, Chinese (simplified)*, Croatian*, Czech*, Estonian*, French*, Hebrew*, Italian*, Japanese*, Kazakh*, Khmer*, Lithuanian*, Macedonian*, Mongolian*, Polish*, Portuguese*, Romanian*, Russian*, Serbian, Spanish* and Turkish*.
In process: German and Ukrainian.
Under discussion with the IFRS Foundation: Georgian.
*Available for free download here (for translations not marked with a * please see our webshop for details of how to purchase a hard copy).
For more details, click
here.
The Middle East
Date: 27–29 November 2012
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Instructors: Paul Pacter (Chairman, SME Implementation Group and IASB member) and Michael Wells (Director, IFRS Education Initiative, IASB)
Language: English spoken (workshop material in Arabic and English)
Sponsoring organisation: Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development
