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IFRS News
Issue 86 - IFRS News in Brief
PUBLICATIONS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
- The Annotated Issued IFRS® Standards 2018 replaces the book previously known as A Guide through IFRS Standards and is now available at: https://shop.ifrs.org/ProductCatalog/Product.aspx?ID=2018&utm_source=NewsArticle&utm_medium=ifrs.org&utm_campaign=AnnotatedIssued2018
- The Board issued narrow-scope amendments to IFRS 3 Business Combinations to improve the definition of a business. For more details, see the IASB press release here: https://www.ifrs.org/news-andevents/2018/10/iasb-amends-definition-of-business-in-ifrs-standard-on-businesscombinations/
- IASB has issued amendments to its definition of material (Amendment to IAS1 and IAS 8) to make it easier for companies to make materiality judgements. For more details, see the IASB press release here: https://www.ifrs.org/news-and-events/2018/10/iasbclarifies-its-definition-of-material/
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD (IASB) LATEST DECISIONS SUMMARY
The following is a summarised update of the main discussions and tentative decisions
taken by the IASB at its meeting on 24-25 October.
For more details and comprehensive information on the IASB’s discussion
see: https://www.ifrs.org/news-and-events/updates/iasb-updates/october-2018/
For more details and comprehensive information on the IASB’s discussion
see: https://www.ifrs.org/news-and-events/updates/iasb-updates/october-2018/
IFRS Interpretations Committee
The Board received an update on the September 2018 meeting of the IFRS
Interpretations Committee. The Board agreed with the recommendation to propose a
narrow-scope amendment to IAS 12 Income Taxes.
IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts
The Board received an update on work to support implementation of IFRS 17 and
decided that when proposing any amendments to IFRS 17, staff must demonstrate the
following criteria. The Board tentatively decided that the following criteria must be met in
order for an amendment to be proposed:
- The amendments would not result in significant loss of useful information relative to that which would otherwise be provided by IFRS 17. Any amendments would avoid
- Reducing the relevance and faithful representation of information;
- Causing reduced comparability, introducing internal inconsistency or unduly disrupting implementation already under way; and
- Increasing complexity and reducing understandability.
The Board will continue the discussion whether any concerns and implementation
challenges a need for standard-setting to amend the requirement of IFRS 17 in a future
meeting.
Primary Financial Statements
The Board discussed the labels that describe the subtotals on the financial
statement(s). The Board tentatively decided the following:
- Previously proposed Label Newly proposed Label
- Business profit from consolidated Entities Operating profit or loss
- Profit before income/expenses from investments, finance income/expenses and income tax Operating profit or loss and share of profit or loss of integral associates and joint ventures
- Profit before finance income/expenses and income tax Profit or loss before financing and income tax
The Board also discussed that the label ‘earnings before interest and taxes’ (EBIT)
would not be a faithful representation of the subtotal referred to in ‘profit or loss before
financing and income tax’ and management performance measure labelled EBIT should
faithfully represent that measure.
Disclosure Initiative
The Board tentatively decided
- To clarify that not all accounting policies relating to material transactions, other events or conditions are material.
- To continue developing guidance and examples to help entities decide whether the accounting policies they apply are themselves material.
Preface to IFRS Standards
The Board tentatively decided to remove some information from the Preface as it is
more appropriately covered by the Constitution or Due Process Handbook of the IFRS
Foundation, as well as by IFRS.
Goodwill and impairment
The Board tentatively decided that the staff should not perform a complete review of all
the disclosure requirements in IFRS 3 Business Combinations and IAS 36 Impairment
of Assets.
In addition to the topics above, the Board received an update on the following matters; however, the Board was not asked to make any decision, and will discuss in a future meeting:
In addition to the topics above, the Board received an update on the following matters; however, the Board was not asked to make any decision, and will discuss in a future meeting:
- Rate-regulated activities
- Management commentary
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