As it prepares to issue the final version of IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts by the end of June 2020, the International Accounting Standards Board (the Board) discussed six sweep issues at its May meeting:
The Board papers addressed the risk mitigation issue in depth, but the other five items were limited to fine-tuning the wording in the revised IFRS 17.
The effective date for IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts is now 1 January 2023. During the current COVID-19 lockdown, many insurers are working innovatively to continue their testing programmes and it will be critical to continue this to achieve a full year of parallel running of new systems.
In our latest podcast, KPMG's global insurance accounting change lead, Mary Trussell, speaks with Bob Owel, a director in KPMG's International Standards Group, and explains that the more insurers have done to focus on their IFRS 17 preparations, the more concerned they are about meeting that 2023 effective date.
For further details on IFRS 17, contact Brian Morrissey, Head of Insurance, via this form.