IFRS application

On June 26, 2024, the 3rd online workshop on IFRS 17 – Insurance Contracts implementation challenges, grouped 27 participants representing insurance regulators in the Western Balkans and the Caucasus to participate in a discussion with the World Bank Centre for Financial Reporting Reform.  Two countries from the Caucasus, Georgia and Ukraine, experienced the implementation of IFRS 17 – in 2023. All Western Balkan countries under the program, have delayed the implementation of IFRS 17.

Local community of practice from Azerbaijan benefited from a five-day workshop, delivered by the CFRR on May 23-27, 2022, in Baku on implementation of the International Financial Reporting Standard for Small and Medium-sized Entities (IFRS for SMEs). The event was organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance of Azerbaijan.

Five-day workshop was delivered by the CFRR on May 16-20, 2022, in Yerevan, Armenia on the IFRS 17 “Insurance Contracts” Implementation for Armenian Regulators and Insurance Industry. The event was organized in cooperation with the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA).

Supervisory staff of the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic (NBKR) are better equipped with the knowledge and tools on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) requirements. A four-day training program focused on IFRSs specifically used in banking sector was delivered with KAREP support between February 01 and 08, 2022.

A virtual seminar was organized to support STAREP countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine) to better understand the objective and the structure of the recently announced comprehensive review and request of information by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) on IFRS for SMEs with a final aim to provide IASB a regional consolidated response to the request for information.