On 16 June the IASB and the US FASB issued amendments that will improve and align the presentation of items of other comprehensive income (OCI) in financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRSs and US GAAP.
The amendments to IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements require companies preparing financial statements in accordance with IFRSs to group together items within OCI that may be reclassified to the profit or loss section of the income statement. The amendments also reaffirm existing requirements that items in OCI and profit or loss should be presented as either a single statement or two consecutive statements.
The FASB have issued an update to Topic 220: Presentation of Comprehensive Income that brings US GAAP into alignment with IFRSs for the presentation of OCI.
The changes do not address which items should be presented in OCI or which and when items should be recycled through profit or loss. However, requiring OCI to be presented as part of, or in close proximity to, the income statement will make it easier for users of financial statements to assess the impact of OCI items on the overall performance of an entity and improve comparability between IFRSs and US GAAP.
The IASB’s amendments to IAS 1 are set out in Presentation of Items of Other Comprehensive Income and are effective for financial years beginning on or after 1 July 2012.
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