May 2025: Navigating Tariffs and Covenant Compliance

Reflections on six years as an IFRS Interpretations Committee member and more. In this month’s episode, Anu Pandya is joined by Karsten Ganssauge for an overview of the topics discussed at the June 2025 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting as well as Karsten’s reflections at the end of his term as an IFRS Interpretations Committee member. Find out more at PwC’s IFRS Talks homepage

In this episode of IFRS Talks, we explore how global tariffs and economic uncertainty can affect covenant compliance. We will explore the Amendments to IAS 1 on non-current liabilities with covenants and discuss how these changes affect financial reporting. Anu Pandya is joined by Olaf Pusch and Gerda Burger from our Global Corporate Reporting Services team, who will provide valuable insights for navigating these challenges.   Find out more at PwC’s IFRS Talks homepage.

The IASB issued targeted amendments to IFRS 9 relating to the date of recognition and derecognition of financial assets and financial liabilities.  In this episode, Anu Pandya is joined by Claire Howells and Chris Raftopoulos, corporate treasury experts in PwC UK, to discuss how these amendments impact how entities account for cash transfers using common payment methods.    Find out more at PwC’s IFRS Talks homepage. 

Sustainability reporting is a vast and evolving area. PwC’s Sustainability Reporting Guide (SRG) serves as a compendium of the reporting requirements under the sustainability frameworks expected to have the broadest impact globally, including ESRS, IFRS® Sustainability Disclosure Standards, and the SEC Climate disclosure rules. We are joined by Katie Woods, from PwC’s Global CRS Sustainability Reporting team and one of the authors of the SRG. Find out more at: https://viewpoint.pwc.com/dt/gx/en/pwc-ifrs-talks/PwC-IFRS-talks/Listen-to-the-latest-episode.html

In their search for carbon neutral power, entities enter more frequently into contracts that reference nature-dependent electricity. In December 2024, the IASB amended IFRS 7 and IFRS 9 to help companies report better on these power purchase agreements. We are joined by Roger Sagmoen who is a member of PwC’s Global Corporate Services team and who has followed this IASB project from the beginning. Find out more at PwC’s IFRS Talks homepage and read our In-Brief here

In December 2024, PwC released its latest Global Investor Survey. We are joined by Eleanor Larner who shares with us some of the findings from this year’s survey. We explore what is top of mind for investors, what they are looking for in disclosures and what that means for companies as they prepare their 2024 reports. Find out more at PwC’s IFRS Talks homepage and read the Global Investor Survey.

When is an economy hyperinflationary? And can R&D expenditure relating to climate-commitments create an intangible asset?In this month’s episode, Laura Kennedy is joined by Karsten Ganssauge for an overview of the topics discussed at the December 2024 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting.Find out more at PwC’s IFRS Talks homepage   https://viewpoint.pwc.com/dt/gx/en/pwc-ifrs-talks/PwC-IFRS-talks/Listen-to-the-latest-episode.html

In our October episode, Laura Kennedy is joined by Olaf Pusch to talk about the new accounting standard - IFRS 19 ‘Subsidiaries without Public Accountability: Disclosures’. The new standard will lower the costs of financial reporting by reducing disclosure requirements for eligible subsidiary financial statements.

In this month’s episode, Laura Kennedy is joined by Karsten Ganssauge for an overview of the September 2024 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting.

In this month's episode Laura is joined by Eleanor Larner and Katie DeKeizer to hear about PwC's Global CSRD Survey 2024, key sustainability reporting implementation challenges and new application guidance.