Agenda and pre-meeting summaries for the November 2017 IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting

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10 Nov 2017

The IASB's IFRS Interpretations Committee will be meeting in London on 20 November 2017. The Committee will discuss six issues, including three new interpretation requests.

Finalisation of draft agenda decision

The Committee will consider the public feedback on a request related to IFRS 3 Business Combinations on the acquisition of a group of assets, which the Committee had tentatively decided not to add to its agenda.  The staff are recommending that the Committee finalise this decision.   

Continued discussions

In its September 2017 meeting, the IC tentatively decided to add a project to clarify the meaning of the term ‘unavoidable costs’, which is used in the definition of an onerous contract in IAS 37 Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets. The staff are recommending that the clarification be by way of an amendment to IAS 37 and that the scope of the project be limited to clarifying the meaning of ‘unavoidable costs’, and not consider broader issues related to identifying or measuring an onerous contract. 

In its September 2017 meeting, the IC asked the Staff to research into the scope of a potential narrow-scope amendment to IFRS 1 First Time Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards with the aim of reducing compliance costs when a subsidiary becomes a first-time adopter later than its parent. The Staff are recommending the development of an amendment IFRS 1 to allow a subsidiary that applies paragraph IFRS 1.D16(a) to measure cumulative translation differences using the amounts reported by the parent based on the parent’s date of transition to IFRS.

New issues

There are three new issues. Two relate to IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers:

  • Revenue recognition in a real estate contract that includes the transfer of land
  • Right to payment for performance completed to date

The third relates to IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements and IFRS 9 Financial Instruments:

  • Presentation of interest revenue for particular financial instruments

For all three issues the staff are recommending that the Interpretations Committee not add the issue to its agenda. 

Future items

The Staff are analysing requests received on whether a dual currency bond meets the solely payments of principal and interest condition in IFRS 9; whether an instrument for which the notional amount varies depending on the outcome of a transaction can be a hedging instrument applying IFRS 9; and how the initial recognition exemption in paragraphs 15 and 24 of IAS 12 applies to the recognition of right-of-use assets and lease liabilities arising under IFRS 16.

Further in­for­ma­tion

The full agenda for the meeting and our pre-meet­ing summaries can be found here. We will update this page for any changes to the agenda and our Deloitte observer notes from the meeting as they become available.

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