Pre-meeting summaries for the December 2020 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting

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30 Nov, 2020

The Committee meets on Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 December 2020, via video conference. The committee will discuss the feedback on one tentative agenda decision and four new issues.

Agenda decision to finalise

Supply Chain Financing Arrangements — Reverse Factoring: In June 2020, the Committee published a tentative agenda decision which analyses the presentation of liabilities arising from reverse financing arrangement in the statement of financial position, statement of cash flows and the related disclosure. The staff recommend that the Committee finalise the tentative agenda decision with some editorial changes.

New issues

IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements — Classification of debt with covenants as current or non-current: How does an entity determine whether it has "the right to defer settlement" when a long-term liability is subject to a condition and its compliance with the condition is tested at dates after the reporting date, applying the amended IAS 1?

IAS 19 Employee Benefits — Attributing benefit to periods of service: To which periods of service should an entity attribute benefit for a defined benefit plan, in a scenario where the amount of the retirement benefit an employee is entitled to depends on the length of services before retirement?

IAS 38 Intangible Assets — Configuration or customisation of costs in a cloud computing arrangement: How should a customer account for the upfront costs of configuring and customising the suppliers' application software to which it receives access in future?

IFRS 9 Financial Instruments — Hedging variability in cash flows due to real interest rates: Could a hedge of the variability in cash flows arising from the changes in real interest rate based on inflation index be accounted for as a cash flows hedge?

For all of the new issues, the staff have concluded that the principles and requirements in the relevant Standards provide an adequate basis to determine the appropriate accounting for the issue and that the Committee should publish a tentative agenda decision saying that no further action is required.

Work in progress: The staff are analysing requests related to the accounting of warrants that are initially classified as liabilities, costs necessary to sell inventories and preparation of financial statements when an entity is no longer a going concern.

The full agenda for the meeting and our comprehensive pre-meeting summaries can be found here.

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