News & Insights

At ABAF/BVFA we are in continuous contact with the main financial stakeholders in Europe, such as EFRAG, ESMA, XBRL, in order to stay on top of trending topics like IFRS, Primary Financial Statements, Goodwill, non-financial reporting, ESG… As a centre of expertise we aim to share our knowledge and insights with our community and thereby want to raise the professional standards of financial and non-financial communication, reporting and valuation.

Below you can find an overview of all news articles and events organized by ABAF/BVFA or the organizations mentioned above. In the ‘Insights’ section, you will find our particular insights and comment letters on relating topics.

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Primary Financial Statements – Outreach event – 1 September 2020

Posted: 15 July 2020

The IASB’s project on Primary Financial Statements (PFS) proposes improvements to the way information is communicated in the financial statements. The PFS project is part of the IASB’s wider work on “Better Communication in Financial Reporting”. Several stakeholders (a.o. ABAF/BVFA in collaboration with EFRAG) have already organised joint outreach events to get input from amongst others…

Get ESG ready via the certified CESGA course!

Posted: 8 July 2020

Thanks to our EFFAS membership and in joint initiative with Febelfin Academy, you can enrol for a European certified ESG training course and obtain this certificate. Online exams take place on November 13, 2020.

CEFA programme postponed to February 2021

Posted: 7 July 2020

Under the circumstances of Covid-19, we unfortunately had to postpone the CEFA programme to February 2021. We are currently updating the brochure & material and are fixing dates for the exams. Once we dispose of all the information – probably in September – we will publish the brochure on our website.