IFRS 18 - Presentation and disclosure in financial statements
Effective for periods beginning on or after January 2027.
Helps to ensure that they provide relevant information that faithfully represents and entities assets, liabilities, income and expenses.
Requires greater disaggregation and management defined performance measures become part of the financial statements.
Profit and loss will be more defined as operating expenses will be split by function or nature
IFRS 18 - the categories and the items included
Financing category
What are the three examples of the ways to set out a P+L?
If any operating expenses are presented by function. IFRS 18 requires
What are the totals and sub totals that must be presented on the P+L?
What is the role of the notes?
does not need to be disclosed if not material.
A liability is current when
Presentation of items of other comprehensive income
Definition of material
The aim of the IASB in issuing practice statement 2 is
To encourage greater application of judgement in the preparation of financial statements
Materiality Judgements when applying IFRS Standards
Financial Statements provide information to primary users that are
Materiality - Quantitative
Materiality - Qualitative
Thresholds
Disclosure of Material Accounting Policies
Judgements and measurement
Purpose of Conceptual Framework
Objective of general purpose financial reporting
Which 3 aspects are useful to users?
Relevance
Faithful Representation
Enhancing Qualitative Characteristics