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Editorial Corrections (various)
The IASB periodically issues Editorial Corrections and changes to IFRSs and other pronouncements. Since the beginning of calendar 2012, such corrections have been made in February 2012, July 2012, March 2013, September 2013, November 2013 and March 2014, September 2014, December 2014, March 2015, April 2015, September 2015, December 2015, March 2016, May 2016, September 2016, December 2016, September 2017, November 2017, December 2018, March 2019 and May 2019.
Note: For details of these editorial corrections, see our IASB editorial corrections page.
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As minor editorial corrections, these changes are effectively immediately applicable under IFRS |
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Clarifications to IFRS 15 'Revenue from Contracts with Customers'
Amends IFRS 15 in three areas:
- Identification of performance obligations – changes clarify the application of the concept of 'distinct‘ in this context.
- Whether an entity is acting as principal or agent – changes clarify the application of the principal of ‘control’ in making this determination.
- Licensing – changes assist in determining whether an entity’s activities ‘significantly affect’ intellectual property during the period for which it has been licensed to a customer.
The amendments also provide some transition relief for modified contracts and completed contracts.
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Effective for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2018 |
Already adopted in prior year (1 Jan 2018) |
Mandatory |
Mandatory |
Mandatory |
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Classification and Measurement of Share-based Payment Transactions (Amendments to IFRS 2)
Amends IFRS 2 to clarify the classification and measurement of share-based payment transactions with respect to:
- the accounting for cash-settled share-based payment transactions that include a performance condition;
- the classification of share-based payment transactions with net settlement features; and
- the accounting for modifications of share-based payment transactions from cash-settled to equity-settled.
Issued: 20 June 2016 (article, newsletter)
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Effective for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2018. Earlier application is permitted. |
Already adopted in prior year (1 Jan 2018) |
Mandatory |
Mandatory |
Mandatory |
Applying IFRS 9 'Financial Instruments' with IFRS 4 'Insurance Contracts' (Amendments to IFRS 4)
Amends IFRS 4 Insurance Contracts provide two options for entities that issue insurance contracts within the scope of IFRS 4:
- an option that permits entities to reclassify, from profit or loss to other comprehensive income, some of the income or expenses arising from designated financial assets; this is the so-called overlay approach;
- an optional temporary exemption from applying IFRS 9 for entities whose predominant activity is issuing contracts within the scope of IFRS 4; this is the so-called deferral approach.
The application of both approaches is optional and an entity is permitted to stop applying them before the new insurance contracts standard is applied.
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Overlay approach to be applied when IFRS 9 is first applied. Deferral approach effective for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2018 and only available for three years after that date.
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Optional
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Optional
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Optional
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Optional
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Annual Improvements 2014-2016 Cycle - amendments to IFRS 1 and IAS 28
Makes amendments to the following standards:
- IFRS 1 - Deletes the short-term exemptions in paragraphs E3–E7 of IFRS 1, because they have now served their intended purpose
- IFRS 12 - Clarifies the scope of the standard by specifying that the disclosure requirements in the standard, except for those in paragraphs B10–B16, apply to an entity’s interests listed in paragraph 5 that are classified as held for sale, as held for distribution or as discontinued operations in accordance with IFRS 5 Non-current Assets Held for Sale and Discontinued Operations
- IAS 28 - Clarifies that the election to measure at fair value through profit or loss an investment in an associate or a joint venture that is held by an entity that is a venture capital organisation, or other qualifying entity, is available for each investment in an associate or joint venture on an investment-by-investment basis, upon initial recognition
Issued: 8 December 2016 (article)
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The amendments to IFRS 1 and IAS 28 are effective for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2018, the amendment to IFRS 12 for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2017
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Amendments to IFRS 1 and IAS 28 - already applied in prior year (1 January 2018) |
Amendments to IFRS 1 and IAS 28 - mandatory |
Amendments to IFRS 1 and IAS 28 - mandatory |
Amendments to IFRS 1 and IAS 28 - mandatory |
Annual Improvements 2015-2017 Cycle
Makes amendments to the following standards:
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IFRS 3 Business Combinations and IFRS 11 Joint Arrangements - The amendments to IFRS 3 clarify that when an entity obtains control of a business that is a joint operation, it remeasures previously held interests in that business. The amendments to IFRS 11 clarify that when an entity obtains joint control of a business that is a joint operation, the entity does not remeasure previously held interests in that business.
- IAS 12 Income Taxes - The amendments clarify that the requirements in the former paragraph 52B (to recognise the income tax consequences of dividends where the transactions or events that generated distributable profits are recognised) apply to all income tax consequences of dividends by moving the paragraph away from paragraph 52A that only deals with situations where there are different tax rates for distributed and undistributed profits.
- IAS 23 Borrowing Costs - The amendments clarify that if any specific borrowing remains outstanding after the related asset is ready for its intended use or sale, that borrowing becomes part of the funds that an entity borrows generally when calculating the capitalisation rate on general borrowings.
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The amendments are all effective for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2019.
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Mandatory |
Optional |
Optional |
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'Transfers of Investment Property (Amendments to IAS 40)'
The amendments to IAS 40 Investment Property:
- Amends paragraph 57 to state that an entity shall transfer a property to, or from, investment property when, and only when, there is evidence of a change in use. A change of use occurs if property meets, or ceases to meet, the definition of investment property. A change in management’s intentions for the use of a property by itself does not constitute evidence of a change in use.
- The list of examples of evidence in paragraph 57(a) – (d) is now presented as a non-exhaustive list of examples instead of the previous exhaustive list.
Issued: 8 December 2016 (article)
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The amendments are effective for periods beginning on or after 1 January 2018. Earlier application is permitted. An entity applies the amendments to changes in use that occur on or after the beginning of the annual reporting period in which the entity first applies the amendments. Retrospective application is also permitted if that is possible without the use of hindsight.
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Already adopted in prior year (1 Jan 2018)
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Mandatory
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Mandatory
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Mandatory |
Long-term Interests in Associates and Joint Ventures (Amendments to IAS 28)
The amendments clarify that an entity applies IFRS 9 Financial Instruments to long-term interests in an associate or joint venture that form part of the net investment in the associate or joint venture but to which the equity method is not applied.
The amendments in Long-term Interests in Associates and Joint Ventures (Amendments to IAS 28) are:
- Paragraph 14A has been added to clarify that an entity applies IFRS 9 including its impairment requirements, to long-term interests in an associate or joint venture that form part of the net investment in the associate or joint venture but to which the equity method is not applied.
- Paragraph 41 has been deleted because the Board felt that it merely reiterated requirements in IFRS 9 and had created confusion about the accounting for long-term interests.
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Annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2019
Annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2019
Annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2019
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Mandatory
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Optional
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Optional
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Optional
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Prepayment Features with Negative Compensation (Amendments to IFRS 9)
The amendments address concerns about how IFRS 9 Financial Instruments classifies particular prepayable financial assets. In addition, the IASB has clarified an aspect of the accounting for financial liabilities following a modification.
The amendments are:
Changes regarding symmetric prepayment options
Under the current IFRS 9 requirements, the SPPI condition is not met if the lender has to make a settlement payment in the event of termination by the borrower (also referred to as early repayment gain).
Prepayment Features with Negative Compensation amends the existing requirements in IFRS 9 regarding termination rights in order to allow measurement at amortised cost (or, depending on the business model, at fair value through other comprehensive income) even in the case of negative compensation payments.
Under the amendments, the sign of the prepayment amount is not relevant, i. e. depending on the interest rate prevailing at the time of termination, a payment may also be made in favour of the contracting party effecting the early repayment. The calculation of this compensation payment must be the same for both the case of an early repayment penalty and the case of a early repayment gain.
Clarification regarding the modification of financial liabilities
The final amendments also contain (in the Basis for Conclusions) a clarification regarding the accounting for a modification or exchange of a financial liability measured at amortised cost that does not result in the derecognition of the financial liability. The IASB clarifies that an entity recognises any adjustment to the amortised cost of the financial liability arising from a modification or exchange in profit or loss at the date of the modification or exchange. A retrospective change of the accounting treatment may therefore become necessary if in the past the effective interest rate was adjusted and not the amortised cost amount.
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The amendments are to be applied retrospectively for fiscal years beginning on or after 1 January 2019, i. e. one year after the first application of IFRS 9 in its current version. Early application is permitted so entities can apply the amendments together with IFRS 9 if they wish so. Additional transitional requirements and corresponding disclosure requirements must be observed when applying the amendments for the first time.
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Mandatory
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Optional
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Optional
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Optional
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Plan Amendment, Curtailment or Settlement (Amendments to IAS 19)
The amendments in Plan Amendment, Curtailment or Settlement (Amendments to IAS 19) are:
- If a plan amendment, curtailment or settlement occurs, it is now mandatory that the current service cost and the net interest for the period after the remeasurement are determined using the assumptions used for the remeasurement.
- In addition, amendments have been included to clarify the effect of a plan amendment, curtailment or settlement on the requirements regarding the asset ceiling.
Issued: 7 February 2018 (article)
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Annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2019.
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Mandatory
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Optional
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Optional
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Optional
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Amendments to References to the Conceptual Framework in IFRS Standards
Together with the revised Conceptual Framework published in March 2018, the IASB has also issued Amendments to References to the Conceptual Framework in IFRS Standards. The document contains amendments to IFRS 2, IFRS 3, IFRS 6, IFRS 14, IAS 1, IAS 8, IAS 34, IAS 37, IAS 38, IFRIC 12, IFRIC 19, IFRIC 20, IFRIC 22, and SIC-32. Not all amendments, however update those pronouncements with regard to references to and quotes from the framework so that they refer to the revised Conceptual Framework. Some pronouncements are only updated to indicate which version of the framework they are referencing to (the IASC framework adopted by the IASB in 2001, the IASB framework of 2010, or the new revised framework of 2018) or to indicate that definitions in the standard have not been updated with the new definitions developed in the revised Conceptual Framework.
Issued: 29 March 2018 (article)
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Annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2020
Not yet endorsed for use in the EU.
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Definition of a Business (Amendments to IFRS 3)
The amendments in Definition of a Business (Amendments to IFRS 3) are changes to Appendix A Defined terms, the application guidance, and the illustrative examples of IFRS 3 only. They:
- clarify that to be considered a business, an acquired set of activities and assets must include, at a minimum, an input and a substantive process that together significantly contribute to the ability to create outputs;
- narrow the definitions of a business and of outputs by focusing on goods and services provided to customers and by removing the reference to an ability to reduce costs;
- add guidance and illustrative examples to help entities assess whether a substantive process has been acquired;
- remove the assessment of whether market participants are capable of replacing any missing inputs or processes and continuing to produce outputs; and
- add an optional concentration test that permits a simplified assessment of whether an acquired set of activities and assets is not a business.
Issued: 22 October 2018 (article/newsletter)
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Business combinations for which the acquisition date is on or after the beginning of the first annual reporting period beginning on or after 1 January 2020
Not yet endorsed for use in the EU.
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Definition of Material (Amendments to IAS 1 and IAS 8)
The amendments in Definition of Material (Amendments to IAS 1 and IAS 8) clarify the definition of ‘material’ and align the definition used in the Conceptual Framework and the standards.
Issued: 31 October 2018 (article)
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Annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2020
Not yet endorsed for use in the EU.
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