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The Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB) has issued a revised ‘Practice Statement on management commentary’ (the Practice Statement). The objective of the revision is to provide a global benchmark for the preparation of management commentary accompanying financial statements including sustainability-related financial disclosures.

This article discusses the requirements when the business combination accounting is incomplete at the reporting date.

This article discusses MFRS 2 and the accounting for equity-settled share-based payment arrangements with employees.

This article summarises this specific guidance and provides examples to illustrate its application.

This article sets out the definition and underlying principles of fair value, gives a brief overview of permissible valuation techniques and presents MFRS 3’s specific guidance on fair value measurement.

According to data in the World Economic Outlook (WEO) report issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in April 2025, and based on economic conditions that currently exist, certain countries are considered to be hyperinflationary at 30 June 2025. Therefore, reporting entities in those countries will be required to apply MFRS 129 'Financial Reporting in Hyperinflationary Economies'.

This article explains and provides examples of the accounting treatment for modifications and cancellations of share-based payment arrangements with employees.

This second part of the publication is intended to demonstrate the order of magnitude of the reductions to certain standards to help entities decide whether applying MFRS 19 will be beneficial.

MFRS 19 ‘Subsidiaries without Public Accountability: Disclosures’ (the Standard) creates a reduced set of disclosures that certain in-scope entities can elect to apply instead of the disclosure requirements set out in other MFRS Accounting Standards.

This article discusses the accounting for share-based payment transactions when employees of an entity receive shares or rights to shares in another entity within the consolidated group, such as the parent entity.

Our ‘Insights into MFRS 3’ series summarises the key areas of the Standard, highlighting aspects that are more difficult to interpret and revisiting the most relevant features that could impact your business. This article explains the recognition principles set out in MFRS 3.

This article sets out the requirements for recognising and measuring any non-controlling interest (NCI).

This article discusses accounting after the acquisition date.

MFRS 3 ‘Business Combinations’ contains the requirements for these transactions, which can be challenging in practice. This article discusses how goodwill, or a gain from a bargain purchase, is initially recognised and measured under MFRS 3, which represents the final step of applying the acquisition method.

While a number of Malaysian Financial Reporting Standards were amended as a consequence of the release of MFRS 18, the most significant amendments were made to the following Malaysian Financial Reporting Standards

Under the new requirements of MFRS 18, items of income and expense are not classified based on their own nature, but rather they are classified based on the nature of the asset, liability or transaction from which they are derived.