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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, May 2019, December 2019, July 2020, September 2020, October 2020 and November 2020..
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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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.
In June 2020 the IASB issued Extension of the Temporary Exemption from Applying IFRS 9 (Amendments to IFRS 4) which changes the fixed expiry date for the temporary exemption (the deferral approach) in IFRS 4 Insurance Contracts from applying IFRS 9 Financial Instruments, so that entities would be required to apply IFRS 9 for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023.
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Optional
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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
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Mandatory |
Mandatory
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Mandatory
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Mandatory
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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
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Mandatory
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Mandatory
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Mandatory
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Mandatory
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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
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Mandatory
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Mandatory
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Mandatory
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Mandatory
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Interest Rate Benchmark Reform (Amendments to IFRS 9, IAS 39 and IFRS 7)
The amendments in Interest Rate Benchmark Reform (Amendments to IFRS 9, IAS 39 and IFRS 7) clarify that entities would continue to apply certain hedge accounting requirements assuming that the interest rate benchmark on which the hedged cash flows and cash flows from the hedging instrument are based will not be altered as a result of interest rate benchmark reform.
Issued: 26 September 2019 (article)
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Annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2020
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Mandatory
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Mandatory
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Mandatory
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Mandatory
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Covid-19-Related Rent Concessions beyond 30 June 2021 (Amendment to IFRS 16)
Extends, by one year, the May 2020 amendment that provides lessees with an exemption from assessing whether a COVID-19-related rent concession is a lease modification
The Changes in Covid-19-Related Rent Concessions beyond 30 June 2021 (Amendment to IFRS 16) amend IFRS 16 to
- permit a lessee to apply the practical expedient regarding COVID-19-related rent concessions to rent concessions for which any reduction in lease payments affects only payments originally due on or before 30 June 2022 (rather than only payments originally due on or before 30 June 2021);
- require a lessee applying the amendment to do so for annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 April 2021;
- require a lessee applying the amendment to do so retrospectively, recognising the cumulative effect of initially applying the amendment as an adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings (or other component of equity, as appropriate) at the beginning of the annual reporting period in which the lessee first applies the amendment; and
- specify that, in the reporting period in which a lessee first applies the amendment, a lessee is not required to disclose the information required by paragraph 28(f) of IAS 8.
Issued: 31 March 2021 (article)
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The amendment is effective for annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 April 2021 (earlier application permitted, including in financial statements not yet authorised for issue at the date the amendment is issued).
Not yet endorsed for use in the EU or the UK.
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Classification of Liabilities as Current or Non-Current (Amendments to IAS 1)
The amendments aim to promote consistency in applying the requirements by helping companies determine whether, in the statement of financial position, debt and other liabilities with an uncertain settlement date should be classified as current (due or potentially due to be settled within one year) or non-current
Issued: 23 January 2020 (article)
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Annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023 (see 'Classification of Liabilities as Current or Non-current — Deferral of Effective Date (Amendment to IAS 1)' below). Original effective date 1 January 2022.
Not yet endorsed for use in the EU or the UK.
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Property, Plant and Equipment — Proceeds before Intended Use (Amendments to IAS 16)
The amendments amend IAS 16 to prohibit deducting from the cost of an item of property, plant and equipment any proceeds from selling items produced while bringing that asset to the location and condition necessary for it to be capable of operating in the manner intended by management. Instead, an entity recognises the proceeds from selling such items, and the cost of producing those items, in profit or loss.
Issued: 14 May 2020 (article, newsletter)
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Annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2022
Not yet endorsed for use in the EU or the UK.
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Annual Improvements 2018-2020 Cycle
Makes amendments to the following standards:
- IFRS 1 First-time Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards - Subsidiary as a first-time adopter. The amendment permits a subsidiary that applies paragraph D16(a) of IFRS 1 to measure cumulative translation differences using the amounts reported by its parent, based on the parent’s date of transition to IFRSs.
- IFRS 9 Financial Instruments - Fees in the ‘10 per cent’ test for derecognition of financial liabilities. The amendment clarifies which fees an entity includes when it applies the ‘10 per cent’ test in paragraph B3.3.6 of IFRS 9 in assessing whether to derecognise a financial liability. An entity includes only fees paid or received between the entity (the borrower) and the lender, including fees paid or received by either the entity or the lender on the other’s behalf.
- IFRS 16 Leases - Lease incentives. The amendment to Illustrative Example 13 accompanying IFRS 16 removes from the example the illustration of the reimbursement of leasehold improvements by the lessor in order to resolve any potential confusion regarding the treatment of lease incentives that might arise because of how lease incentives are illustrated in that example.
- IAS 41 Agriculture - Taxation in fair value measurements. The amendment removes the requirement in paragraph 22 of IAS 41 for entities to exclude taxation cash flows when measuring the fair value of a biological asset using a present value technique. This will ensure consistency with the requirements in IFRS 13.
Issued: 14 May 2020 (article, newsletter)
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The amendments to IFRS 1, IFRS 9, and IAS 41 are all effective for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2022. Early application is permitted. The amendment to IFRS 16 only regards an illustrative example, so no effective date is stated.
Not yet endorsed for use in the EU or the UK.
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Reference to the Conceptual Framework (Amendments to IFRS 3)
The changes:
- update IFRS 3 so that it refers to the 2018 Conceptual Framework instead of the 1989 Framework;
- add to IFRS 3 a requirement that, for transactions and other events within the scope of IAS 37 or IFRIC 21, an acquirer applies IAS 37 or IFRIC 21 (instead of the Conceptual Framework) to identify the liabilities it has assumed in a business combination; and
- add to IFRS 3 an explicit statement that an acquirer does not recognise contingent assets acquired in a business combination.
Issued: 14 May 2020 (article, newsletter)
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The amendments published today are effective for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2022. Early application is permitted if an entity also applies all other updated references (published together with the updated Conceptual Framework) at the same time or earlier
Not yet endorsed for use in the EU or the UK.
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Onerous Contracts — Cost of Fulfilling a Contract (Amendments to IAS 37)
The changes specify that the ‘cost of fulfilling’ a contract comprises the ‘costs that relate directly to the contract’. Costs that relate directly to a contract can either be incremental costs of fulfilling that contract (examples would be direct labour, materials) or an allocation of other costs that relate directly to fulfilling contracts (an example would be the allocation of the depreciation charge for an item of property, plant and equipment used in fulfilling the contract).
Issued: 14 MAy 2020 (article, newsletter)
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Annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2022
Not yet endorsed for use in the EU or the UK.
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Covid-19-Related Rent Concessions (Amendment to IFRS 16)
Amends IFRS 16 to provide lessees with an exemption from assessing whether a COVID-19-related rent concession is a lease modification.
The changes:
- provide lessees with an exemption from assessing whether a COVID-19-related rent concession is a lease modification;
- require lessees that apply the exemption to account for COVID-19-related rent concessions as if they were not lease modifications;
- require lessees that apply the exemption to disclose that fact; and
- require lessees to apply the exemption retrospectively in accordance with IAS 8, but not require them to restate prior period figures.
The practical expedient applies to COVID-19-related rent concessions that result in reduction in lease payments due on or before 30 June 2021.
Issued: 28 MAy 2020 (article,newsletter)
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The amendment is effective for annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 June 2020.
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Mandatory
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Mandatory
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Optional
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Optional
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Amendments to IFRS 17
Amends IFRS 17 to address concerns and implementation challenges that were identified after IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts was published in 2017.
The main changes are:
- Deferral of the date of initial application of IFRS 17 by two years to annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023
- Additional scope exclusion for credit card contracts and similar contracts that provide insurance coverage as well as optional scope exclusion for loan contracts that transfer significant insurance risk.
- Recognition of insurance acquisition cash flows relating to expected contract renewals, including transition provisions and guidance for insurance acquisition cash flows recognised in a business acquired in a business combination.
- Clarification of the application of IFRS 17 in interim financial statements allowing an accounting policy choice at a reporting entity level.
- Clarification of the application of contractual service margin (CSM) attributable to investment-return service and investment-related service and changes to the corresponding disclosure requirements.
- Extension of the risk mitigation option to include reinsurance contracts held and non-financial derivatives.
- Amendments to require an entity that at initial recognition recognises losses on onerous insurance contracts issued to also recognise a gain on reinsurance contracts held.
- Simplified presentation of insurance contracts in the statement of financial position so that entities would present insurance contract assets and liabilities in the statement of financial position determined using portfolios of insurance contracts rather than groups of insurance contracts.
- Additional transition relief for business combinations and additional transition relief for the date of application of the risk mitigation option and the use of the fair value transition approach.
- Several small amendments regarding minor application issues.
Issued: 25 June 2020 (article)
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The amendment is effective for annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023. Earlier application is permitted.
Not yet endorsed for use in the EU or the UK.
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Extension of the Temporary Exemption from Applying IFRS 9 (Amendments to IFRS 4)
The amendment changes the fixed expiry date for the temporary exemption in IFRS 4 Insurance Contracts from applying IFRS 9 Financial Instruments, so that entities would be required to apply IFRS 9 for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023.
Issued: 25 June 2020 (article)
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In June 2020 the IASB issued Extension of the Temporary Exemption from Applying IFRS 9 (Amendments to IFRS 4) which changes the fixed expiry date for the temporary exemption (the deferral approach) in IFRS 4 Insurance Contracts from applying IFRS 9 Financial Instruments, so that entities would be required to apply IFRS 9 for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023.
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Optional
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Optional
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Optional
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Optional
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'Classification of Liabilities as Current or Non-current — Deferral of Effective Date (Amendment to IAS 1)'
The amendment defers the effective date of the January 2020 amendments (see above) by one year.
Issued: 15 July 2020 (article)
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The changes in Classification of Liabilities as Current or Non-current — Deferral of Effective Date defer the effective date of Classification of Liabilities as Current or Non-current (Amendments to IAS 1) to annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023. Earlier application of the January 2020 amendments continue to be permitted.
Not yet endorsed for use in the EU or the UK.
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Interest Rate Benchmark Reform — Phase 2 (Amendments to IFRS 9, IAS 39, IFRS 7, IFRS 4 and IFRS 16)
The amendments in Interest Rate Benchmark Reform — Phase 2 (Amendments to IFRS 9, IAS 39, IFRS 7, IFRS 4 and IFRS 16) introduce a practical expedient for modifications required by the reform, clarify that hedge accounting is not discontinued solely because of the IBOR reform, and introduce disclosures that allow users to understand the nature and extent of risks arising from the IBOR reform to which the entity is exposed to and how the entity manages those risks as well as the entity’s progress in transitioning from IBORs to alternative benchmark rates, and how the entity is managing this transition.
Issued: 27 August 2020 (article)
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Annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2021.
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Optional - endorsed by both the UK and EU.
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Optional - Endorsed by both the UK and EU.
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Optional - Endorsed by both the UK and EU.
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Optional - Endorsed by both the UK and EU.
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Disclosure of Accounting Policies (Amendments to IAS 1 and IFRS Practice Statement 2)
The amendments require that an entity discloses its material accounting policies, instead of its significant accounting policies. Further amendments explain how an entity can identify a material accounting policy. Examples of when an accounting policy is likely to be material are added. To support the amendment, the Board has also developed guidance and examples to explain and demonstrate the application of the ‘four-step materiality process’ described in IFRS Practice Statement 2.
Issued: 12 February 2021 (article)
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Annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023. Not yet endorsed for use in the EU or the UK.
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Definition of Accounting Estimates (Amendments to IAS 8)
The amendments replace the definition of a change in accounting estimates with a definition of accounting estimates. Under the new definition, accounting estimates are “monetary amounts in financial statements that are subject to measurement uncertainty”. Entities develop accounting estimates if accounting policies require items in financial statements to be measured in a way that involves measurement uncertainty. The amendments clarify that a change in accounting estimate that results from new information or new developments is not the correction of an error.
Issued: 12 February 2021 (article)
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Annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023. Not yet endorsed for use in the EU or the UK.
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