IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers
New revenue recognition standard was issued: IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers and it should fill the gap between IFRS and US GAAP.
FASB (the US GAAP standard setting body) issued the new revenue recognition standard, too: Topic 606, which is almost a mirror of IFRS 15 (full text of Topic 606 is here).
Although I’ll cover this standard in one of my videos in the following months, here are the basic points for your information:
You’ll need to apply IFRS 15 for reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2017 (early application permitted);