IAS Plus: SIC 20, Equity Method - Recognition of Losses

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SIC 20 Equity Accounting Method – Recognition of Losses
— Superseded —

References

IAS 28 Investments in Associates

History

Issued: July 2000
Effective date: 15 July 2000
Superseded by IAS 28 (Revised 2003) effective for annual financial reporting periods beginning 1 January 2005.

SUMMARY OF SIC 20

SIC 20 confirms that in applying the equity method of accounting, the investor normally stops recording its share of the continuing losses of an associate once the carrying amounts of financial interests which are accounted for under the equity method are reduced to nil.

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