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On 27 March 2024, the Financial Reporting Council issued amendments to FRS 100 – 105 (known as GAAP, or Generally Accepted Accounting Practice), a suite of accounting standards applicable in the UK and Ireland. These are used by an estimated 3.4 million businesses in preparing their financial statements.

2025 marks the 21st year of Grant Thornton’s work to monitor and measure the proportion of women occupying senior management roles in mid-market companies around the world.

On 27 March 2024, the Financial Reporting Council issued amendments to FRS 100 – 105 (known as GAAP, or Generally Accepted Accounting Practice), a suite of accounting standards applicable in the UK and Ireland. These are used by an estimated 3.4 million businesses in preparing their financial statements.

The Government announced the details of Budget 2025 on February 18 2025. Stay informed with comprehensive coverage, commentary and analysis from Grant Thornton's team of experts.

On 27 March 2024, the Financial Reporting Council issued amendments to FRS 100 – 105 (known as GAAP, or Generally Accepted Accounting Practice), a suite of accounting standards applicable in the UK and Ireland. These are used by an estimated 3.4 million businesses in preparing their financial statements.

Isle of Man Financial Services Authority's letter highlights recruitment challenges for Heads of Compliance and MLROs, emphasising the importance of Fitness and Propriety standards.

Grant Thornton, a leading Professional Services firm in the Isle of Man, has announced ‘Wish Upon a Dream’ as its charity partner for the next two years.

As they entered 2023, most business leaders in the mid-market kept had their focus on three top-of-mind threats: inflation, cyber-attack and the economic slowdown.

Mid-market firms using international supply chains have faced significant disruption and headwinds as a consequence of the war in Ukraine, the long tail of COVID disruption and wider geo-political tensions.

Our ‘Insights into IFRS 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. IFRS 3 has specific guidance on how some items are recognised and measured. This article summarises this specific guidance and provides examples to illustrate its application.

Our ‘Insights into IFRS 3’ series summarises the key areas of the Standard, highlighting aspects that are more difficult to interpret and revisiting the some relevant features that could impact your business. This article sets out the definition and underlying principles of fair value, gives a brief overview of permissible valuation techniques and presents IFRS 3’s specific guidance on fair value measurement.

Our ‘Insights into IFRS 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 IFRS 3.

Are you wondering if your relationship with your ERP has run its course? There are a few ways to tell, say the ‘ERP relationship therapists’ at Grant Thornton

Our ‘IFRS Viewpoint’ series provides insights from our global IFRS team on applying IFRS in challenging situations. Each edition focuses on an area where the Standards have proved difficult to apply or lack guidance.

IAS 36 ‘Impairment of Assets’ prescribes the accounting for impairment reviews. There are some detailed requirements of IAS 36 that are complex and challenging for the preparers of financial statements to apply.

IAS 36 ‘Impairment of Assets’ sets out the requirements entities should follow prior to concluding if an asset should be written down in the financial statements (ie impaired). However, due to the complex nature of the standard, the requirements of IAS 36 can be challenging to apply in practice.