The topics discussed at the meeting included:

• Primary financial statements:
  • Introducing management performance measures and management-defined adjusted earnings per share (adjusted EPS) into financial statements; and
  • Proposed improvements to the presentation of the share of profit or loss of associates and joint ventures in the statement(s) of financial performance.
• Discussion Paper: Disclosure Initiative — Principles of Disclosure:
  • Preparers’ views on addressing the disclosure problem;
  • The relative prioritisation of five specific topics included in the DP; and
  • The effect of technology and digital reporting on the project.
• Goodwill and impairment:
  • An approach to the impairment testing of goodwill that considers movements in headroom; and
  • The requirement in IFRS 3, Business Combinations to recognize all identifiable intangible assets acquired in a business combination separately from goodwill.
• Rate-regulated activities:
  • Whether using the disclosure objective in IFRS 14, Regulatory Deferral Accounts would be a good starting point for developing the disclosure objective for the model;
  • The usefulness of the preliminary set of disclosures; and
  • Whether entities should be required to provide all the resulting information within their financial statements, rather than in another location, such as in management commentary.

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