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Jennifer Louis, CPA, President of Emergent Solutions Group LLC
Jennifer has over 25 years of experience in designing and instructing high-quality training programs in a wide variety of technical and soft skills topics needed for professional and organization.
This instructor has 82 courses »Business combinations occur when an acquirer obtains control of another business. Business combinations under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are accounted for under the acquisition method, with limited exceptions. This course explores a step-by-step method for properly accounting for business combinations, which includes calculating goodwill or a bargain purchase gain per IFRS 3.
Learning Objectives
- Explore how to identify the acquirer in a business combination.
- Discover how to properly determine the acquisition date, which will become the measurement date for the business combination.
- Recognize how to determine the consideration transferred, including contingent consideration.
- Explore how to value the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed.
- Discover how to calculate goodwill or the bargain purchase gain.
Last updated/reviewed: May 22, 2022
Included In Certifications
This course is included in the following Certification Programs:
17 CoursesIFRS Certificate Program
- General Considerations for Preparing Financial Statements in Accordance with IFRS
- IFRS vs. U.S. GAAP - Major Differences in Accounting
- 2022 IFRS Update
- IFRS for Small and Medium-Sized Entities Compared to Full IFRS
- Accounting for Revenue from Contracts with Customers per IFRS 15
- Accounting for Leases under IFRS 16
- IFRS - Accounting for Share-Based Payment Awards per IFRS 2
- Accounting for Financial Instruments under IFRS 9
- Accounting for Nonfinancial Assets under IFRS
- Accounting for Business Combinations under IFRS 3
- IFRS - Accounting for Employee Benefits per IAS 19 and IFRIC 14
- Accounting for Investments in Other Entities, Including Consolidation, under IFRS
- IFRS - Accounting for Income Taxes per IAS 12
- IFRS - Derivatives and Hedge Accounting under IFRS 9
- IFRS - Special Accounting Topics
- IFRS - Special Financial Reporting Issues
- IFRS - General Financial Statement Disclosures
6 Reviews (21 ratings)Reviews
Richard Jones
(Accounting Manager: Statutory Reporting at World Fuel Services)
This course does a great job of covering the basics of business combination accounting under IFRS compared to US GAAP. There are a lot of similarities between the two standards, but it is good to learn the standard through the different frameworks.
Anonymous
(Controller)
I liked the pace of the course. There are a lot of different circumstances that are seen in business combinations and this did a good job covering the concepts and how to apply them
Anonymous
(Accountant)
Great course. The professor kept you engaged throughout the videos and the questions on the exam are very clear cut in deciding the answers.
Anonymous
(Sr. Accountant)
Extremely detailed materials with exceptional overview and insight provided by instructor. Course was very informative.
Craig Scanlon
(Owner at BST)
Lots of good info but more examples might help someone that hasn't gone through this process before (me)
Alexandra Demidova
(Technical Accounting Manager at Flexport)
This was a great course regarding business combinations!
Prerequisites
Course Complexity: Advanced
No advanced preparation or prerequisites are required for this course.
Education Provider Information
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Illumeo, Inc., 75 East Santa Clara St., Suite 1215, San Jose, CA 95113
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