New approaches regarding business combinations

Cristina Bunea-Bontas and Mihaela Cosmina Petre

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Abstract: The accounting for business combinations is a very important area, therefore it needs a high quality accounting standard that could be used for both domestic and cross-border financial reporting. IASB issued in January 2008 the revised IFRS 3 Business Combinations, which aims to help both users and preparers of the consolidated financial statements by improving the relevance, reliability and comparability of the information reported by companies around the world. This article aims to highlight few significant changes in the accounting treatment of business combinations that have arisen from the revised IFRS 3, focusing on the accounting principles surrounding the recognition and measurement of the identifiable net assets of the acquiree and any non-controlling interest in the acquiree and on the implications for calculating and measuring goodwill.

Keywords: control; acquisition method; fair value; non-controlling interest; goodwill (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-05
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