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IFRS 1: First-time Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards
Key Requirements: Apply IFRS in full for the current year, adjust opening balances of assets and liabilities as if IFRS had always been in place. Impact: Establishes a starting point for accounting under IFRS, ensuring comparability over time.
IFRS 2: Share-based Payment
Key Requirements: Recognize share-based payments in financial statements, including expensing employee stock options. Impact: Reflects the cost of employee services received and equity transactions with shareholders.
IFRS 3: Business Combinations
Key Requirements: Recognize and measure identifiable assets acquired, liabilities assumed, and non-controlling interest at their fair values on the acquisition date. Impact: Increased transparency and comparability in accounting for business combinations.
IFRS 4: Insurance Contracts
Key Requirements: Specify accounting for insurance contracts by insurers, including deferring and recognizing profits. Impact: Provides a temporary solution until a more comprehensive standard (IFRS 17) replaces it.
IFRS 5: Non-current Assets Held for Sale and Discontinued Operations
Key Requirements: Separate presentation of non-current assets and disposal groups, and discontinued operations. Impact: Provides clearer financial statements by segregating results and assets that will not contribute to future operations.
IFRS 6: Exploration for and Evaluation of Mineral Resources
Key Requirements: Allows for flexible accounting of exploration and evaluation expenditures. Impact: Enables companies to reflect the unique nature of the mining sector and its risk in financial statements.
IFRS 7: Financial Instruments: Disclosures
Key Requirements: Disclose information that enables users to evaluate the significance of financial instruments. Impact: Improves transparency in financial risk management and the effect of financial instruments on financial position.
IFRS 8: Operating Segments
Key Requirements: Disclose information about operating segments, products and services, geographical areas, and major customers. Impact: Enhances users’ understanding of an entity’s performance and future prospects by revealing its internal market perspective.
IFRS 9: Financial Instruments
Key Requirements: Classify and measure financial assets and liabilities, including impairment and hedge accounting. Impact: Reflects the actual management and performance of financial instruments, improves comparability and decision usefulness.
IFRS 10: Consolidated Financial Statements
Key Requirements: Prepare consolidated financial statements that present parent and subsidiaries as a single economic entity. Impact: Provides a more comprehensive representation of the business group’s financial position and performance.
IFRS 11: Joint Arrangements
Key Requirements: Account for joint operations and joint ventures differently, based on rights and obligations. Impact: Clarifies the recognition and measurement of parties’ involvement in joint arrangements, enhancing comparability.
IFRS 12: Disclosure of Interests in Other Entities
Key Requirements: Disclose interests in subsidiaries, joint arrangements, associates, and unconsolidated structured entities. Impact: Increases transparency and provides users with information to assess the nature of, and risks associated with, an entity’s interests.
IFRS 13: Fair Value Measurement
Key Requirements: Provides a framework for measuring fair value and requires extensive disclosures. Impact: Standardizes fair value measurement and increases consistency and comparability across financial statements.
IFRS 15: Revenue from Contracts with Customers
Key Requirements: Recognize revenue in a manner that depicts the transfer of goods or services to customers, reflecting the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled. Impact: Introduces a five-step model to standardize revenue recognition, enhancing comparability.
IFRS 16: Leases
Key Requirements: Requires lessees to recognize assets and liabilities for all leases with term over 12 months unless the asset is low value. Impact: Increases transparency by recognizing lease transactions in the balance sheet, providing a clearer picture of an entity’s financial leverage.
IFRS 17: Insurance Contracts
Key Requirements: Establishes principles for recognizing, measuring, presenting, and disclosing insurance contracts within the scope of the standard. Impact: Improves information provided about insurance contracts, leading to better understanding and comparability.
IAS 1: Presentation of Financial Statements
Key Requirements: Present financial statements that fairly present the financial position, financial performance, and cash flows of an entity. Impact: Improves the comparability and understandability of financial statements among different companies.
IAS 2: Inventories
Key Requirements: Measure inventories at the lower of cost and net realizable value. Impact: Provides a basis for assessing inventory value and income recognition, leading to consistency and comparability in inventory accounting.
IAS 7: Statement of Cash Flows
Key Requirements: Prepare a statement of cash flows as part of financial statements, which classifies cash flows during the period from operating, investing, and financing activities. Impact: Provides information about changes in cash and cash equivalents, assessing the entity’s ability to generate cash and cash equivalents.
IAS 8: Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors
Key Requirements: Selection and application of accounting policies, accounting for changes in estimates, and correction of prior period errors. Impact: Ensures consistency and comparability over time for financial reporting.
IAS 10: Events after the Reporting Period
Key Requirements: Recognize and disclose the effects of events that occur after the balance sheet date but before financial statements are authorized for issue. Impact: Ensures that financial statements reflect all relevant information up to the date the financial statements are issued.
IAS 12: Income Taxes
Key Requirements: Account for income taxes using the balance sheet liability method for temporary differences between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their carrying amounts in the financial statements. Impact: Ensures income taxes are accounted for consistently and transparently.
IAS 16: Property, Plant and Equipment (PPE)
Key Requirements: Recognition, measurement at acquisition, subsequent measurement and derecognition of PPE. Impact: Provides a framework for accounting for the major fixed assets used by entities, ensuring clarity and comparability.
IAS 19: Employee Benefits
Key Requirements: Account for all types of employee benefits, including short-term benefits, post-employment benefits, and other long-term benefits. Impact: Improves the transparency and comparability of the costs and obligations associated with employee benefits.
IAS 21: The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates
Key Requirements: How to include foreign currency transactions and foreign operations in the financial statements and how to translate financial statements into a presentation currency. Impact: Ensures consistent and comparable financial reporting in the case of foreign currency transactions and translations.
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