EFRAG draft comment letter on proposed amendments to IAS 1 and the Materiality Practice Statement

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04 Oct 2019

The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) has issued a draft comment letter on the IASB exposure draft ED/2019/6 'Disclosure of Accounting Policies (Proposed amendments to IAS 1 and IFRS Practice Statement 2)'.

The proposed amendments are intended to help preparers in deciding which accounting policies to disclose in their financial statements.

EFRAG supports the proposal to replace the undefined reference to 'significance' with the defined concept of 'materiality'. EFRAG believes that this, with other Disclosure Initiative projects, may help entities to identify and disclose accounting policies that provide material information to users and the connection to the application of materiality to other information. However, EFRAG notes the possible inconsistencies of the proposed guidance with the existing disclosure requirements in IAS 8 Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors regarding accounting policies choices and changes.

Comments on EFRAG's draft comment letter are requested by 22 November 2019. For more information, see the press release and the draft comment letter on the EFRAG's website.

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