Saturday, September 04, 2010

IASB proposes amendments to IFRS 1


The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) today published for public comment proposed amendments to IFRS 1 First-time Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards.

The proposal would amend IFRS 1 by replacing references to a fixed transition date of ‘1 January 2004’ with ‘the date of transition to IFRSs’. As a result, entities adopting IFRSs for the first time would not have to restate derecognition transactions that occurred before the date of transition to IFRSs. In addition, first-time adopters would also not have to recalculate ‘day 1’ differences on initial recognition of financial instruments, where the transaction occurred before the date of transition to IFRSs.

See full Press Release.