UK GAAP application for reporting periods ending 31 December 2022

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14 Dec, 2022

The table below reflects new and revised UK GAAP financial reporting requirements that need to be considered for financial reporting periods ending on 31 December 2022.

Amendments have been made to FRS 101 as a result of the 2020/21 annual review of the standard.  In November 2022, the FRC issued revised Application Guidance to FRS 100 to reflect changes to UK company law and decisions on equivalence following the UK’s exit from the European Union.  The revised guidance is effective immediately.  The FRC is currently undertaking its next periodic review of FRS 102 and other UK and Ireland accounting Standards and issued Financial Reporting Exposure Draft (FRED) 82 Draft amendments to FRS 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland and other FRSs – Periodic Review in December 2022.  Comments are requested by 30 April 2023.

The table below reflects new and revised UK GAAP financial reporting requirements that need to be considered for financial reporting periods ending on 31 December 2022. For those reporters who want to understand new UK GAAP application for earlier periods please select one of the following:

Pronouncement Effective date Application for quarters ending 31 December 2022?
1st qtrs.* 2nd qtrs.** 3rd qtrs.*** Full yrs****
FRS 100
Consequential amendments as a result of Amendment to FRS 101 – Effective date of IFRS 17 The amendments take effect for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023. If an entity applies the July 2019 amendments to FRS 101 early, these amendments to FRS 100 shall be applied at the same time ~ ~ ~ ~
Amendments to FRS 100 Application of Financial Reporting Requirements – The Interpretation of Equivalence 

The revised guidance is effective immediately

The revised guidance is effective immediately The revised guidance is effective immediately The revised guidance is effective immediately The revised guidance is effective immediately
FRS 101
Amendments to the Basis for Conclusions FRS 101 Reduced Disclosure Framework

No effective date. No amendments to FRS 101 have been made

N/A (see effective date column) N/A (see effective date column) N/A (see effective date column) N/A (see effective date column)
Amendments to FRS 101 - 2019/20 cycle issued

Paragraph 8 of FRS 101 notes that the exemptions are available from when the relevant standard is applied. Therefore there is no need to amend the effective date for these amendments, which will be available for financial statements approved after the amendments have been finalised.

Optional Optional Optional Optional
Changes the effective date of an amendment to the definition of a qualifying entity made in July 2019, effectively allowing relevant insurers to continue to apply FRS 101 for a further two years. The revised effective date for the new definition of a qualifying entity is accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023 ~ ~ ~ ~

Paragraph 8 of FRS 101 notes that the exemptions are available from when the relevant standard is applied. Therefore there is no need to amend the effective date for these amendments, which will be available for financial statements approved after the amendments have been finalised

% % % %
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No amendments were made as a result of the annual review

NA NA NA NA
FRS 102
Amendments to FRS 101 - 2019/20 cycle issued

Paragraph 8 of FRS 101 notes that the exemptions are available from when the relevant standard is applied. Therefore there is no need to amend the effective date for these amendments, which will be available for financial statements approved after the amendments have been finalised.

Optional

Optional

Optional

Optional

Consequential amendments as a result of Amendment to FRS 101 – Effective date of IFRS 17 The amendments take effect for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023. If an entity applies the July 2019 amendments to FRS 101 early, these amendments to FRS 102 shall be applied at the same time ~ ~ ~ ~

* 1st quarter ending on 31 December 2022 (accounting period began on 1 October 2022).

** 2nd quarter ending 31 December 2022 (accounting period began 1 July 2022).

*** 3rd quarter ending 31 December 2022 (accounting period began 1 April 2022).

**** 4th quarter ending 31 December 2022 (accounting period began 1 January 2022).

~ The amendments to FRS 101 and the consequential amendments to FRS 100 and FRS 102 take effect for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023. If an entity applies the recognition, measurement and disclosure requirements of IFRS 17 early, the amendments to FRS 101 are applied at the same time. IFRS 17 has been endorsed for use in the EU, albeit with an optional exemption from applying the annual cohort requirement.  It has also been endorsed for use in the UK.  If an entity applies the July 2019 amendments to FRS 101 early, the amendments to FRS 100 and FRS 102 are applied at the same time.

% - a qualifying entity may take advantage of the exemption introduced by paragraph 8(iA) from when Property, Plant and Equipment: Proceeds before Intended Use (Amendments to IAS 16) is applied. Similarly, the amendments to paragraph AG1(h) of FRS 101 apply from when Classification of Liabilities as Current or Non-current (Amendments to IAS 1) is applied.  Property, Plant and Equipment: Proceeds before Intended Use (Amendments to IAS 16) has been endorsed for use in the UK and EU.  Classification of Liabilities as Current or Non-current (Amendments to IAS 1) has not been endorsed for use in either the UK or EU.

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