
Describe the scope of general purpose financial reporting, identifying primary users and the balance sheet and income statement concepts of resources, claims, accrual-based accounting, stewardship, and performance versus position.
Learn the five elements of financial statements—assets, liabilities, equity, income, and expenses—plus recognition, measurement, and the balance sheet and income statement structure.
Explain IFRS 15 treatment for right of return, including prudence in revenue, refund liabilities, and period-end adjustments, plus warranties, principal versus agent, and non-refundable upfront fee.
Explain how to determine contract assets and liabilities under the percentage-of-completion method, compute profit to date, and reconcile costs incurred, invoiced amounts, and accrued income under IFRS 15.
Explain depreciation concepts for non-current assets, comparing straight-line and reducing balance methods, cost and revaluation models, and their impact on net book value under IFRS.
Analyze MCQs on borrowing costs and capitalization under IFRS, focusing on qualifying assets, cost of capital calculations, and investment property treatment in consolidated financial statements.
Explain how IAS 16 permits cost and revaluation models for plant and owner-occupied property, and IAS 40 investment property, including depreciation, impairment, and fair value changes.
Explore IFRS 13 fair value measurement by identifying principal and most advantageous markets, calculating fair value through market inputs, and handling decommissioning liabilities with expected cash flows, inflation, and discounting.
Explore IFRS 3 goodwill, distinguishing acquired from internally generated goodwill, how purchase price over net identifiable assets creates goodwill in consolidation, and impairment and negative goodwill treatment.
Explain that future operating losses are not provisions under IAS 37, while onerous contracts require a provision for the lower of cost of fulfilling and penalties for failing to fulfill.
Learn how IAS 37 handles provision for restructuring and the role of a detailed, communicated plan in creating a constructive obligation. Identify which costs are included as direct restructuring costs.
Learn how to allocate goodwill to cash generating units and test impairment using a proportionate basis; understand corporate assets and head office allocations.
COURSE OVERVIEW
It is a complete course on financial reporting based on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Course syllabus is designed on the syllabus as given by ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants). The course covers all topics and is aimed to help students passing their ACCA FR (F7) exam All topics are explained in a structured, phased approach.
It is a complete guide kit for those who want to learn financial reporting (IFRS). There are more than thirty-two hours of video lectures, including the explanation of theoretical concepts and examples and questions
Average duration of each lecture is approximately twenty to thirty minutes in order to explain the topic and do few questions / examples to show the application of knowledge.
HOW STUDENTS GET BENEFIT FROM THIS COURSE
This course is created to help students pass their ACCA FR (F7) exam with high marks in the very first attempt. The list of topics (chapters) and their sequence is from BPP Learning Media which is considered as one of the world’s best publishers of accounting books.
However, students with other qualifications such as CIMA, CA, CAT, BBA or MBA can also get great value since the topics of Fundamentals of Financial Accounting remain same in all qualifications and degrees.
The course includes video tutorials for full syllabus coverage of ACCA FR (F&) as well as videos for practice questions with solutions and explanation by the tutor. As part of the learning materials students will also find course notes and chapter presentations in PDF format.
The aim of this training is to develop knowledge and understanding of the underlying principles, concepts and regulations relating to financial reporting based on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
DETAILED SYLLABUS (TOPIC LIST)
- Conceptual Framework
- Regulatory Framework
- IAS 16 - Tangible Non Current Assets
- IAS 23 - Borrowing Cost
- IAS 36 - Impairment
- IAS 37 - Provisions and Contingencies
- IAS 38 - Intangible Non Current Assets
- IAS 40 - Investment Property
- IAS 2 - Inventories
- IAS 10 - Events after the reporting period
- IAS 20 - Government Grants
- IAS 33 - Earnings Per Share EPS
- IAS 41 - Biological Assets
- IFRS 3 - Goodwill
- IFRS 5 - Non Current Asset Held for Sales and Discontinued Operation
- IFRS 9 - Financial Instruments
- IFRS 15 - Revenue from Contracts with Customers
- IFRS 16 - Leases
- Reporting Financial Performance
- Interpretation of Financial Statements
- Accounting for Inflation
- Final Accounts
- Consolidated Financial Statements
ABOUT INSTRUCTOR
I am a qualified accounting and finance professional with over twenty years of professional experience. I have been teaching accounting and finance courses for over fifteen years and have taught more than twenty thousand delegates including students, young accountants, chief accountant and finance managers.