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loans made by financial institutions are usually classified as operating activities since they relate to the main revenue-producing activity of that entity.
An entity shall report cash flows from operating activities using either:
(a) the direct method, whereby major classes of gross cash receipts and
gross cash payments are disclosed; or
(b) the indirect method, whereby profit or loss is adjusted for the effects
of transactions of a non-cash nature, any deferrals or accruals of past or future
operating cash receipts or payments, and items of income or expense associated with investing or financing cash flows.
Entities are encouraged to report cash flows from operating activities us-
ing the direct method. The direct method provides information which may be
useful in estimating future cash flows and which is not available under the
indirect method. Under the direct method, information about major classes of
gross cash receipts and gross cash payments may be obtained either:
a) from the accounting records of the entity; or
b) by adjusting sales, cost of sales (interest and similar income and inter-
est expense and similar charges for a financial institution) and other items in
the statement of comprehensive income for:
– changes during the period in inventories and operating receivables and
payables;
– other non-cash items;
– other items for which the cash effects are investing or financing cash
flows.
Under the indirect method, the net cash flow from operating activities is
determined by adjusting profit or loss for the effects of:
a) changes during the period in inventories and operating receivables and
payables;
(b) non-cash items such as depreciation, provisions, deferred taxes, unre-
alised foreign currency gains and losses, and undistributed profits of associates; and
(c) all other items for which the cash effects are investing or financing
cash flows.
Alternatively, the net cash flow from operating activities may be present-
ed under the indirect method by showing the revenues and expenses disclosed
in the statement of comprehensive income and the changes during the period in
inventories and operating receivables and payables.
Investing activities
The separate disclosure of cash flows arising from investing activities is
important because the cash flows represent the extent to which expenditures
have been made for resources intended to generate future income and cash
flows. Only expenditures that result in a recognised asset in the statement of
financial position are eligible for classification as investing activities.
Examples of cash flows arising from investing activities are:
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(a) cash payments to acquire property, plant and equipment, intangibles
and other long-term assets. These payments include those relating to capitalised development costs and self-constructed property, plant and equipment;
(b) cash receipts from sales of property, plant and equipment, intangibles
and other long-term assets;
(c) cash payments to acquire equity or debt instruments of other entities
and interests in joint ventures (other than payments for those instruments considered to be cash equivalents or those held for dealing or trading purposes);
(d) cash receipts from sales of equity or debt instruments of other entities
and interests in joint ventures (other than receipts for those instruments considered to be cash equivalents and those held for dealing or trading purposes);
(e) cash advances and loans made to other parties (other than advances
and loans made by a financial institution);
(f) cash receipts from the repayment of advances and loans made to oth-
er parties (other than advances and loans of a financial institution);
(g) cash payments for futures contracts, forward contracts, option con-
tracts and swap contracts except when the contracts are held for dealing or
trading purposes, or the payments are classified as financing activities; and
(h) cash receipts from futures contracts, forward contracts, option con-
tracts and swap contracts except when the contracts are held for dealing or
trading purposes, or the receipts are classified as financing activities.
Financing activities
The separate disclosure of cash flows arising from financing activities is
important because it is useful in predicting claims on future cash flows by providers of capital to the entity. Examples of cash flows arising from financing
activities are:
(a) cash proceeds from issuing shares or other equity instruments;
(b) cash payments to owners to acquire or redeem the entity’s shares;
(c) cash proceeds from issuing debentures, loans, notes, bonds, mortgag-
es and other short-term or long-term borrowings;
(d) cash repayments of amounts borrowed;
(e) cash payments by a lessee for the reduction of the outstanding liabil-
ity relating to a finance lease.
Reporting cash flows on a net basis
Cash flows arising from the following operating, investing or financing
activities may be reported on a net basis:
(a) cash receipts and payments on behalf of customers when the cash
flows reflect the activities of the customer rather than those of the entity:
– the acceptance and repayment of demand deposits of a bank;
– funds held for customers by an investment entity;
– rents collected on behalf of, and paid over to, the owners of properties.
(b) cash receipts and payments for items in which the turnover is quick,
the amounts are large, and the maturities are short:
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– principal amounts relating to credit card customers;
– the purchase and sale of investments; and
– other short-term borrowings, for example, those which have a maturity
period of three months or less.
Cash flows arising from each of the following activities of a financial in-
stitution may be reported on a net basis:
a) cash receipts and payments for the acceptance and repayment of depos-
its with a fixed maturity date;
b) the placement of deposits with and withdrawal of deposits from other
financial institutions;
c) cash advances and loans made to customers and the repayment of those
advances and loans.
Foreign currency cash flows
Cash flows arising from transactions in a foreign currency shall be rec-
orded in an entity’s functional currency by applying to the foreign currency
amount the exchange rate between the functional currency and the foreign currency at the date of the cash flow.
The cash flows of a foreign subsidiary shall be translated at the exchange
rates between the functional currency and the foreign currency at the dates of
the cash flows.
Cash flows denominated in a foreign currency are reported in a manner
consistent with IAS 21 «The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates».
This permits the use of an exchange rate that approximates the actual rate. For
example, a weighted average exchange rate for a period may be used for recording foreign currency transactions or the translation of the cash flows of a
foreign subsidiary. However, IAS 21 does not permit use of the exchange rate
at the end of the reporting period when translating the cash flows of a foreign
subsidiary.
Unrealised gains and losses arising from changes in foreign currency ex-
change rates are not cash flows. However, the effect of exchange rate changes
on cash and cash equivalents held or due in a foreign currency is reported in
the statement of cash flows in order to reconcile cash and cash equivalents at
the beginning and the end of the period. This amount is presented separately
from cash flows from operating, investing and financing activities and includes
the differences, if any, had those cash flows been reported at end of period
exchange rates.
Interest and dividends
Cash flows from interest and dividends received and paid shall each be
disclosed separately. Each shall be classified in a consistent manner from period to period as either operating, investing or financing activities.
Interest paid and interest and dividends received are usually classified as
operating cash flows for a financial institution. However, there is no consensus
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on the classification of these cash flows for other entities. Interest paid and
interest and dividends received may be classified as operating cash flows because they enter into the determination of profit or loss. Alternatively, interest
paid and interest and dividends received may be classified as financing cash
flows and investing cash flows respectively, because they are costs of obtaining financial resources or returns on investments.
Dividends paid may be classified as a financing cash flow because they
are a cost of obtaining financial resources. Alternatively, dividends paid may
be classified as a component of cash flows from operating activities in order to
assist users to determine the ability of an entity to pay dividends out of operating cash flows.
Taxes on income
Cash flows arising from taxes on income shall be separately disclosed
and shall be classified as cash flows from operating activities unless they can
be specifically identified with financing and investing activities.
Therefore, taxes paid are usually classified as cash flows from operating
activities. However, when it is practicable to identify the tax cash flow with an
individual transaction that gives rise to cash flows that are classified as investing or financing activities the tax cash flow is classified as an investing or financing activity as appropriate. When tax cash flows are allocated over more
than one class of activity, the total amount of taxes paid is disclosed.
Non-cash transactions
Investing and financing transactions that do not require the use of cash or
cash equivalents shall be excluded from a statement of cash flows. Such transactions shall be disclosed elsewhere in the financial statements in a way that
provides all the relevant information about these investing and financing activities.
Many investing and financing activities do not have a direct impact on
current cash flows although they do affect the capital and asset structure of an
entity. The exclusion of non-cash transactions from the statement of cash flows
is consistent with the objective of a statement of cash flows as these items do
not involve cash flows in the current period. Examples of non-cash
transactions are:
(a) the acquisition of assets either by assuming directly related liabilities
or by means of a finance lease;
(b) the acquisition of an entity by means of an equity issue; and
(c) the conversion of debt to equity.
Other disclosures
An entity shall disclose, together with a commentary by management, the
amount of significant cash and cash equivalent balances held by the entity that
are not available for use by the group.
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There are various circumstances in which cash and cash equivalent bal-
ances held by an entity are not available for use by the group. Examples include cash and cash equivalent balances held by a subsidiary that operates in a
country where exchange controls or other legal restrictions apply when the
balances are not available for general use by the parent or other subsidiaries.
Additional information may be relevant to users in understanding the fi-
nancial position and liquidity of an entity. Disclosure of this information, together with a commentary by management, is encouraged and may include:
(a) the amount of undrawn borrowing facilities that may be available for
future operating activities and to settle capital commitments, indicating any
restrictions on the use of these facilities;
(b) the aggregate amount of cash flows that represent increases in operat-
ing capacity separately from those cash flows that are required to maintain
operating capacity;
(c) the amount of the cash flows arising from the operating, investing and
financing activities of each reportable segment (IFRS 8 «Operating Segments»).
The disclosure of segmental cash flows enables users to obtain a better
understanding of the relationship between the cash flows of the business as a
whole and those of its component parts and the availability and variability of
segmental cash flows.
3.4. IAS 8 "Accounting policies, changes
in accounting estimates and errors"
The objective of this Standard is to prescribe the criteria for selecting and
changing accounting policies, together with the accounting treatment and disclosure of changes in accounting policies, changes in accounting estimates and corrections of errors. The Standard is intended to enhance the relevance and reliabil-
ity of an entity’s financial statements, and the comparability of those financial
statements over time and with the financial statements of other entities.
Defi nit ions
Accounting policies are the specific principles, bases, conventions, rules
and practices applied by an entity in preparing and presenting financial statements.
A change in accounting estimate is an adjustment of the carrying amount
of an asset or a liability, or the amount of the periodic consumption of an asset,
that results from the assessment of the present status of, and expected future
benefits and obligations associated with, assets and liabilities. Changes in accounting estimates result from new information or new developments and,
accordingly, are not corrections of errors.
Material Omissions or misstatements of items are material if they could,
individually or collectively, influence the economic decisions that users make
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on the basis of the financial statements. Materiality depends on the size and
nature of the omission or misstatement judged in the surrounding circumstances. The size or nature of the item, or a combination of both, could be the determining factor.
Prior period errors are omissions from, and misstatements in, the entity’s
financial statements for one or more prior periods arising from a failure to use,
or misuse of, reliable information that:
(a) was available when financial statements for those periods were au-
thorised for issue;
(b) could reasonably be expected to have been obtained and taken into
account in the preparation and presentation of those financial statements.
Such errors include the effects of mathematical mistakes, mistakes in ap-
plying accounting policies, oversights or misinterpretations of facts, and fraud.
Retrospective application is applying a new accounting policy to transac-
tions, other events and conditions as if that policy had always been applied.
Retrospective restatement is correcting the recognition, measurement and
disclosure of amounts of elements of financial statements as if a prior period
error had never occurred.
Impracticable Applying a requirement is impracticable when the entity
cannot apply it after making every reasonable effort to do so. For a particular
prior period, it is impracticable to apply a change in an accounting policy retrospectively or to make a retrospective restatement to correct an error if:
(a) the effects of the retrospective application or retrospective restatement
are not determinable;
(b) the retrospective application or retrospective restatement requires as-
sumptions about what management’s intent would have been in that period; or
(c) the retrospective application or retrospective restatement requires sig-
nificant estimates of amounts and it is impossible to distinguish objectively
information about those estimates
Consistency of accounting policies
An entity shall select and apply its accounting policies consistently for
similar transactions, other events and conditions, unless an IFRS specifically
requires or permits categorisation of items for which different policies may be
appropriate. If an IFRS requires or permits such categorisation, an appropriate
accounting policy shall be selected and applied consistently to each category.
Changes in accounting policies
An entity shall change an accounting policy only if the change:
(a) is required by an IFRS; or
(b) results in the financial statements providing reliable and more relevant
information about the effects of transactions, other events or conditions on the
entity’s financial position, financial performance or cash flows.
The following are not changes in accounting policies:
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(a) the application of an accounting policy for transactions, other events
or conditions that differ in substance from those previously occurring;
(b) the application of a new accounting policy for transactions, other
events or conditions that did not occur previously or were immaterial.
The initial application of a policy to revalue assets in accordance with
IAS 16 Property, Plant and Equipment or IAS 38 «Intangible Assets» is a
change in an accounting policy to be dealt with as a revaluation in accordance
with IAS 16 or IAS 38, rather than in accordance with this Standard.
Retrospective application
When a change in accounting policy is applied retrospectively, the entity
shall adjust the opening balance of each affected component of equity for the
earliest prior period presented and the other comparative amounts disclosed for
each prior period presented as if the new accounting policy had always been
applied.
Limitations on retrospective application
When retrospective application is required, a change in accounting policy
shall be applied retrospectively except to the extent that it is impracticable to
determine either the period-specific effects or the cumulative effect of the
change.
When it is impracticable to determine the period-specific effects of
changing an accounting policy on comparative information for one or more
prior periods presented, the entity shall apply the new accounting policy to the
carrying amounts of assets and liabilities as at the beginning of the earliest
period for which retrospective application is practicable, which may be the
current period, and shall make a corresponding adjustment to the opening balance of each affected component of equity for that period.
When it is impracticable to determine the cumulative effect, at the begin-
ning of the current period, of applying a new accounting policy to all prior
periods, the entity shall adjust the comparative information to apply the new
accounting policy prospectively from the earliest date practicable.
Disc los ure
When initial application of an IFRS has an effect on the current period or
any prior period, would have such an effect except that it is impracticable to
determine the amount of the adjustment, or might have an effect on future periods, an entity shall disclose:
(a) the title of the IFRS;
(b) when applicable, that the change in accounting policy is made in ac-
cordance with its transitional provisions;
(c) the nature of the change in accounting policy;
(d) when applicable, a description of the transitional provisions;
(e) when applicable, the transitional provisions that might have an effect
on future periods;
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(f) for the current period and each prior period presented, to the extent
practicable, the amount of the adjustment:
– for each financial statement line item affected; and
– if IAS 33 Earnings per Share applies to the entity, for basic and diluted
earnings per share;
(g) the amount of the adjustment relating to periods before those pre-
sented, to the extent practicable;
(h) if retrospective application required is impracticable for a particular
prior period, or for periods before those presented, the circumstances that led
to the existence of that condition and a description of how and from when the
change in accounting policy has been applied.
When an entity has not applied a new IFRS that has been issued but is not
yet effective, the entity shall disclose:
(a) this fact;
(b) known or reasonably estimable information relevant to assessing the
possible impact that application of the new IFRS will have on the entity’s fi-
nancial statements in the period of initial application.
Changes in accounting estimates
As a result of the uncertainties inherent in business activities, many items
in financial statements cannot be measured with precision but can only be estimated. Estimation involves judgements based on the latest available, reliable
information. For example, estimates may be required of:
(a) bad debts;
(b) inventory obsolescence;
(c) the fair value of financial assets or financial liabilities;
(d) the useful lives of, or expected pattern of consumption of the future
economic benefits embodied in, depreciable assets; and
(e) warranty obligations.
An estimate may need revision if changes occur in the circumstances on
which the estimate was based or as a result of new information or more experience. By its nature, the revision of an estimate does not relate to prior periods
and is not the correction of an error.
A change in the measurement basis applied is a change in an accounting
policy, and is not a change in an accounting estimate. When it is difficult to
distinguish a change in an accounting policy from a change in an accounting
estimate, the change is treated as a change in an accounting estimate.
To the extent that a change in an accounting estimate gives rise to chang-
es in assets and liabilities, or relates to an item of equity, it shall be recognised
by adjusting the carrying amount of the related asset, liability or equity item in
the period of the change.
Prospective recognition of the effect of a change in an accounting esti-
mate means that the change is applied to transactions, other events and condi-
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tions from the date of the change in estimate. A change in an accounting estimate may affect only the current period’s profit or loss, or the profit or loss of
both the current period and future periods. For example, a change in the esti-
mate of the amount of bad debts affects only the current period’s profit or loss
and therefore is recognised in the current period. However, a change in the
estimated useful life of, or the expected pattern of consumption of the future
economic benefits embodied in, a depreciable asset affects depreciation ex-
pense for the current period and for each future period during the asset’s re-
maining useful life. In both cases, the effect of the change relating to the current period is recognised as income or expense in the current period. The effect, if any, on future periods is recognised as income or expense in those future periods.
Disc los ure
An entity shall disclose the nature and amount of a change in an account-
ing estimate that has an effect in the current period or is expected to have an
effect in future periods, except for the disclosure of the effect on future periods
when it is impracticable to estimate that effect.
If the amount of the effect in future periods is not disclosed because esti-
mating it is impracticable, an entity shall disclose that fact.
Errors
Errors can arise in respect of the recognition, measurement, presentation or
disclosure of elements of financial statements. Financial statements do not comply with IFRSs if they contain either material errors or immaterial errors made
intentionally to achieve a particular presentation of an entity’s financial position,
financial performance or cash flows. Potential current period errors discovered in
that period are corrected before the financial statements are authorised for issue.
However, material errors are sometimes not discovered until a subsequent period, and these prior period errors are corrected in the comparative information
presented in the financial statements for that subsequent period.
An entity shall correct material prior period errors retrospectively in the
first set of financial statements authorised for issue after their discovery by:
(a) restating the comparative amounts for the prior period(s) presented in
which the error occurred; or
(b) if the error occurred before the earliest prior period presented, restat-
ing the opening balances of assets, liabilities and equity for the earliest prior
period presented.
When it is impracticable to determine the period-specific effects of an er-
ror on comparative information for one or more prior periods presented, the
entity shall restate the opening balances of assets, liabilities and equity for the
earliest period for which retrospective restatement is practicable (which may
be the current period).
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When it is impracticable to determine the cumulative effect, at the begin-
ning of the current period, of an error on all prior periods, the entity shall restate the comparative information to correct the error prospectively from the
earliest date practicable.
The correction of a prior period error is excluded from profit or loss for
the period in which the error is discovered. Any information presented about
prior periods, including any historical summaries of financial data, is restated
as far back as is practicable.
Corrections of errors are distinguished from changes in accounting esti-
mates. Accounting estimates by their nature are approximations that may need
revision as additional information becomes known. For example, the gain or
loss recognised on the outcome of a contingency is not the correction of an
error.
Disc los ure of pr ior period errors
An entity shall disclose the following:
(a) the nature of the prior period error;
(b) for each prior period presented, to the extent practicable, the amount
of the correction:
– for each financial statement line item affected; and
– if IAS 33 applies to the entity, for basic and diluted earnings per share;
(c) the amount of the correction at the beginning of the earliest prior pe-
riod presented;
(d) if retrospective restatement is impracticable for a particular prior peri-
od, the circumstances that led to the existence of that condition and a description of how and from when the error has been corrected.
Financial statements of subsequent periods need not repeat these disclo-
sures.
3.5. IAS 24 "Related party disclosure"
The objective of this Standard is to ensure that an entity’s financial
statements contain the disclosures necessary to draw attention to the possibility
that its financial position and profit or loss may have been affected by the existence of related parties and by transactions and outstanding balances, including commitments, with such parties.
Purpose o f r elated party disclo sures
Related party relationships are a normal feature of commerce and busi-
ness. For example, entities frequently carry on parts of their activities through
subsidiaries, joint ventures and associates. In those circumstances, the entity
has the ability to affect the financial and operating policies of the investee
through the presence of control, joint control or significant influence.
A related party relationship could have an effect on the profit or loss and
financial position of an entity. Related parties may enter into transactions that
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