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Technical updates August 2019

Our roundup of regulatory news.

The International Accounting Standards Board (Board) is proposing narrow-scope amendments to IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements and IFRS Practice Statement 2 Making Materiality Judgements to help companies provide useful accounting policy disclosures to users of financial statements. IAS 1 requires companies to disclose their ‘significant’ accounting policies. The Board is proposing to replace the reference to ‘significant’ with a requirement to disclose ‘material’ accounting policies to clarify the threshold for disclosing information.

The proposals state that information about an accounting policy is material if, when considered together with other information included in a company’s financial statements, it can influence financial statement users’ decisions about the company.


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