1st Edition

Accounting for Biological Assets

By Rute Gonçalves, Patrícia Lopes Copyright 2018
118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores accounting for biological assets under IAS 41 – Agriculture, and explains the recent adjustments introduced by the IASB which allow firms to choose between cost or revaluation models concerning mature bearer plants. Identifying the firm and country-level drivers that inform the disclosure and measurement practices of biological assets, this concise guide examines the value... Read more

Table of contents



Part I Overview



Part II International Accounting Standard 41 Agriculture



Part III Accounting for biological assets – current debate



Part IV Fair value relevance of biological assets



Part V Empirical evidence



Part VI Main findings and future avenues of research



Biography

Rute Gonçalves is Accounting Supervisor at Centrar, S.A. RAR Group, Portugal. She has previously taught at the University of Porto, Portugal.



Patrícia Teixeira Lopes is Associate Dean at Porto Business School, Portugal. She was a research member of INTACCT, a European project on the application of the IAS/IFRS in Member States of the European Union.