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Why a lease liability, a pension liability and a bank loan are treated very differently on the new income statement If there is one classification outcome under IFRS 18 that will surprise finance teams the first time...

A practical walkthrough of one of the more technical classification calls preparers will face Of the three profit-or-loss categories that require an active classification decision, operating, investing and financing,...

In the first blog of this series, we introduced the five categories that IFRS 18 uses to reshape the statement of profit or loss: operating, invest...

Why every income statement is about to look and feel different, a plain-English guide to categorisation If you have spent any part of your career reading, preparing or auditing financial statements, you probably think...

AI-generated output is only as reliable as the information and assumptions behind it. Hallucinated facts, outdated data, unsupported conclusions and embedded bias can all creep into an analysis that isn't carefully reviewed. A Stanf...

AI is reshaping every stage of the valuation process and increasingly, business owners and investors are using these tools themselves before a formal engagement even...

For many business owners, Know Your Customer (KYC) has long been viewed as a one-time exercise, submit your documents, answer a few questions, and move on. In 2026, that perception is changing rapidly. Today, corporate KYC is no longer j...

Somewhere in Dubai this quarter, a board is going to ask how mature the organisation's GRC posture is. Someone will open the risk register. Forty-two risks, colour-coded, owners assigned, last reviewed in March. It will be...

Deemed Supplies under UAE VAT Under the UAE VAT legislation, VAT is generally imposed on supplies of goods and services made for consideration. However, in certain circumstances, the law treats transactions where no consider...

In brief For a Qualifying Free Zone Person (QFZP), transfer pricing (TP) is not merely a compliance formality of the 0% regime - it is one of the conditions on which the Corpo...