Covering all the accounting issues and reporting standards (IAS, IFRS) that an accounting student needs to know, this text provides a fresh, decision-usefulness approach that will enhance students' interpretative skills and take their understanding to the next level.

International GAAP® 2016 is a comprehensive reference tool to interpreting and implementing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and provides detailed analysis of how complex financial reporting problems can be addressed appropriately and effectively. It demonstrates how difficult practical issues should be approached in the new complex global world of international financial reporting, where IFRS has become the accepted financial reporting system in more than 100 countries. The International Financial Reporting Group of Ernst & Young (EY) includes financial reporting professionals from around the world. Complex technical accounting issues are explained clearly in a working context that enables immediate understanding of the point at issue. It is accompanied by numerous worked examples, a comprehensive discussion of the practical issues of the day and the possible alternative options available, and hundreds of illustrations taken from the actual financial statements of companies that report under IFRS. The volumes cover the International Accounting Standards Board's (IASB) conceptual framework, financial statements, accounting policies, non-current assets held for sale and discontinued operations, consolidated financial statements, foreign exchange, inflation, intangible assets, leases, government grants, income taxes, share-based payment, statement of cash flows, hedge accounting, IAS 39, IFRS 9, insurance contracts and others.

The increasing pace of global conformance towards the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) highlights the need for accounting students as well as accounting practitioners to be conversant with IFRS. Teaching IFRS offers expert descriptions of, and insights into, the IFRS convergence process from a teaching and learning perspective. Hence this book is both timely and likely to have considerable impact in providing guidance for those who teach financial reporting around the world. The contents of the book come from authoritative sources and offer something distinctive to complement the existing textbooks which typically focus on the technical aspects of IFRS and their adoption. Drawing upon the experiences of those who have sought to introduce IFRS-related classroom innovations and the associated student outcomes achieved therefrom, the book offers suggestions about how to design and deliver courses dealing with IFRS and catalogues extensive listings of IFRS-related teaching resources to support those courses. This book was originally published as a special issue of Accounting Education: An international journal.