As part of its ongoing redeliberations, the UK Accounting Standards Board (ASB) has tentatively agreed to a number of amendments to its proposed revised differential reporting framework, to reduce its impacts on certain entities and extend its proposed application date.

The ASB published its published its proposals for the future of financial reporting in the UK and Republic of Ireland in October 2010 (see our earlier story). The Exposure Drafts set out proposals for a three-tier reporting framework, with the aim of balancing the needs of preparers and users of accounts.

At its meeting held on 16 June 2011, the ASB made the following tentative decisions:

• To remove from FRED 43 Application of Financial reporting Requirements and FRED 44 Financial Reporting Standard for Medium-sized Entities (FRSME), the requirement for publicly accountable entities to prepare accounts under EU-adopted IFRS. As a consequence the application of EU-adopted IFRS will not be extended beyond the current requirements in law. This measure will particularly assist certain charities that would otherwise be captured as having "public accountability"
• To change the principles for amending the IFRS for SMEs in developing the FRSME (to be applied by all entities other than those required to comply with EU-adopted IFRS and small companies), to permit or require accounting options that exist in current UK and Republic of Ireland Financial Reporting Standards at the transition date that align with EU-adopted IFRS
• To defer the proposed effective date of the proposals to 1 January 2014 (instead of 1 July 2013), to allow time for the creation of a new exposure draft of the FRSME.

Click for the ASB meeting summary (link to the UK Financial Reporting Council website).