THE IMPACT OF IFRS ON REPORTING FOR BUSINESS COMBINATIONS: AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS USING THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY

THE IMPACT OF IFRS ON REPORTING FOR BUSINESS COMBINATIONS: AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS USING THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY

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The mandatory use of IFRS by all publicly listed companies in the European Union created challenges for accounting and reporting of business combinations, goodwill impairment and disclosures for these items.Major issues are allocation of Medical and Ambulatory supplies / Needles and Syringes amounts to goodwill and specific intangible assets arising from acquisition.This study presents an in-depth exploration of compliance with IFRS 3 and IAS 36 using content analysis methodology of annual reports of eight European telecommunications that were chose because the industry is well known for significant acquisitions involving intangibles.The results show only partial compliance with little change over the four year period since mandatory IFRS adoption.While results cannot be generalized outside this group, the in-depth analysis yielded important ROSE PURE CASTILE SOAP insights for continued research using broader research methods.