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Insights to PFRS 2 - Two new articles released

Background

This Accounting Alert is issued to circulate the next 2 articles related to PFRS 2. 

PFRS 2 was introduced in 2004 and the accounting principles have remained largely unchanged since. Share-based payments have become increasingly popular over the years, with many entities using equity instruments or cash and other assets based on the value of equity instruments as a form of payment to directors, senior management, employees and other suppliers of goods and services.

The accounting of share-based payments is an area that remains not well understood and this is evidenced by a number of Interpretations and agenda decisions being issued by the IFRS Interpretations Committee (IFRIC) and Philippine Interpretations Committee (PIC). Considerable care needs to be applied in evaluating the requirements set out in PFRS 2 and other authoritative guidance to increasingly complex and innovative share-based payment arrangements.

The series is aimed at demystifying the Standard by explaining the fundamentals of accounting for share-based payments using relatively simple language and providing insights to help entities cut through some of the complexities associated with accounting for these types of arrangements. 

The following articles are now available:

1. Insights into PFRS 2: Group share-based payments

This article discusses the accounting for share-based payment transactions when employees of an entity receive shares or rights to shares in another entity within the consolidated group, such as the parent entity

2. Insights into PFRS 2: Modifications and cancellations of share-based payment arrangements with employees

This article explains and provides examples of the accounting treatment for modifications and cancellations of share-based payment arrangements with employees

Group share-based payments

Group share-based payments

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Modifications and cancellations of share-based payment

Modifications and cancellations of share-based payment

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