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Dates for the first meeting of the SMEIG are confirmed

The first meeting of the SME Implementation Group (SMEIG) will take place on Monday 4-Tuesday 5 February 2013 at the offices of the IASB, 30 Cannon Street, London. The SMEIG meeting will be open to public observation (but advance reservation is necessary). More details will be made available nearer the time.

CB restricts maximum interest rates on deposits

Starting from 1 October, however, the Bank of Russia switches to a new approach for calculation of the rate on deposits. This one will affect only the largest banks in the industry, but eventually all the rest will follow the regulator’s recommendations and decrease rates on their deposits as well.

Public servants and financial market participants don’t want to see the Bank of Russia as the “megaregulator”

Russia has plans for further integration and the new “uber”-regulator to control everything, no matter how complicated it sounds. Understandably, either the Central Bank’s functions will be given to the FFMS, or vice versa. The second option already seems more likely, but it appears that this idea is not found attractive by many professional market participants and even among some of the public servants.

COSO proposals give real-world internal control examples

As one of many scenarios described in new guidance proposed Tuesday by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), though, the hypothetical example brings to life a real external financial reporting risk a company might face.

Japan “designates” additional IFRSs

On 21 September 2012, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) of Japan announced that additional IFRSs were designated for use by companies voluntarily applying IFRSs in Japan.

Canada's AcSB defers mandatory IFRS adoption for certain rate-regulated entities to 2014

The Canadian Accounting Standards Board (AcSB) has announced a decision to defer for an additional year the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) for qualifying entities with rate-regulated activities.

Minfin asked to set lower limits for fees charged on the market

The National League of Managers (NLM) proposed the Ministry of Finance to prohibit unreasonably low fees on the market for non-banking organizations, otherwise – thinks the NLM’s chairman Dmitry Alexandrov – brokers, management companies and depositories may leave it.

Gazprom forces Minfin to change the formula for calculation of the mineral extraction tax

The Ministry of Finance abandoned the idea of calculation of the mineral extraction tax rate two days after it was proposed (September 18). On September 20 the Minfin published yet another set of draft amendments to the Tax Code, according to which expected tax payments of Gazprom for the period until 2015 are 6 billion lower than they would be if the original formula was used.

EFRAG European Outreach Event on Post-implementation Review of IFRS 8 and EFRAG/ANC/FRC Discussion Paper “Towards a Disclosure Framework for the Notes”

EFRAG is pleased to invite you to an outreach event on the IASB Post–Implementation Review of IFRS 8 Operating Segments and the EFRAG/ANC/FRC Discussion Paper Towards a Disclosure Framework for the Notes on Thursday 11 October 2012 in Brussels (13.00-15.00 hrs).

Representatives of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Accounting Standards Board of Japan hold biannual meeting

Representatives of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the Accounting Standards Board of Japan (ASBJ) met on September 13 and 14, 2012, in Tokyo, Japan. This meeting was the thirteenth in a series of biannual meetings between the FASB and the ASBJ.