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Financial statement presentation — Comprehensive project

Background

This project addresses broadly the issues related to the display and presentation in the financial statements of all recognised changes in assets and liabilities from transactions or other events except those related to transactions with owners as owners (sometimes called comprehensive income). Thus, it will consider items that presently are reported in the income statement, cash flow statement, and statement of changes in equity.

The IASB worked on this project on its own from 2001 to 2004. The title of the project during that period was 'Performance Reporting' and, later, 'Reporting Comprehensive Income'. The US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) was also working on a similar project. In April 2004 the boards agreed that, in the interests of convergence, a project on this topic should be conducted jointly. They will regard the past work of each organisation as a useful resource, but will not feel bound by it. In November 2004, the IASB and FASB jointly appointed a new Joint International Group on Performance Reporting to assist the boards in their joint project to establish standards for presenting, in the financial statements, information that is useful in assessing the financial performance of a business enterprise.

So, in a sense, the project had a 'fresh start' in November 2004. The new project is called Financial Statement Presentation. This web page contains information about the joint IASB-FASB project that started in November 2004. For historical purposes, we have retained, on a separate project page, the information about the old 'Performance Reporting (Reporting Comprehensive Income) Project' from 2001 to 2004.

 

Current status of the project

This project is currently on hold. On June 24 2010, the boards decided to engage in additional outreach activities before finishing and publishing an exposure draft.  To this end, a staff draft of a proposed standard was published on 1 July 2010 to seek informal comment on the decisions reached to date in the project.

 

Project milestones

DateDevelopmentComments
July 2001 Added to the agenda
November 2004 Joint International Group on Performance Reporting appointed Inaugural members listed in our news article
16 October 2008 Discussion Paper Preliminary Views on Financial Statement Presentation issued Comment deadline 14 April 2009
1 July 2010 Staff Draft of Exposure Draft IFRS X Financial Statement Presentation published Formal comment not sought, but input welcome

Related Discussions

  • IAS 7 — Examples illustrating the classification of cash flows

  • Jul 10, 2012

  • The Committee discussed the staff’s analysis of six examples that illustrate the classification of cash flows which was aimed at testing the principle (using the first principle as the primary guidance principle) for classification of the cash flows noted above and to determine how existing guidance in IAS 7 could be clarified.

  • Financial statement presentation

  • Mar 01, 2011

  • The staffs presented to the IASB and FASB the results of the additional outreach activities performed related to the proposals in the Staff Draft on financial statement presentation.

  • Financial statement presentation — Update on outreach activities

  • Oct 22, 2010

  • The staff provided the Board with a summary of constituent outreach activities the IASB and FASB has performed since the publication of the staff draft. The Boards asked the staff to continue in performing outreach activities and directed it to prepare a project plan that would allow for discussion of the proposal after June 2011.

  • Financial Statement Presentation

  • Oct 27, 2009

  • The staff addressed the following four topics regarding the discussion paper, Preliminary Views on Financial Statement Presentation: (1) the statement of cash flows, (2) the reconciliation schedule, (3) disaggregation by function and nature and (4)classification: section and category definitions.

  • Financial Statement Presentation

  • Mar 23, 2009

  • The boards reviewed the field test on the presentation model proposed in the October 2008 Discussion Paper, as well as the project plan.

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