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IAS 19 requires that gains or losses in assets and actuarial liabilities and any unamortized past service cost should be recognised when the settlement or curtailment occurs (paragraphs 109-115 of IAS 19). It is often quite difficult for an employer to recover substantial surplus assets from the plan.
e. International Financial Reporting Standards, commonly called IFRS, are accounting standards issued by the IFRS Foundation and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). [1] They constitute a standardised way of describing the company's financial performance and position so that company financial statements are understandable and ...
IAS 32: SIC 17 Equity - Costs of an Equity Transaction 1999 January 30, 2000: January 1, 2005: IAS 32: SIC 18 Consistency - Alternative Methods 1999 July 1, 2000: January 1, 2005: IAS 8: SIC 19 Reporting Currency - Measurement and Presentation of Financial Statements under IAS 21 and IAS 29 2000 January 1, 2001: January 1, 2005: IAS 21: SIC 20
Impairment (financial reporting) Impairment of assets is the diminishing in quality, strength, amount, or value of an asset. An impairment cost must be included under expenses when the book value of an asset exceeds the recoverable amount. Fixed assets, commonly known as PPE (Property, Plant & Equipment), refers to long-lived assets such as ...
Accounting. An intangible asset is an asset that lacks physical substance. Examples are patents, copyright, franchises, goodwill, trademarks, and trade names, as well as any form of digital asset such as software. This is in contrast to physical assets (machinery, buildings, etc.) and financial assets (government securities, etc.).
Comprehensive income (IAS 1: "Total Comprehensive Income") is the total non-owner change in equity for a reporting period. This change encompasses all changes in equity other than transactions from owners and distributions to owners. Most of these changes appear in the income statement.
A chart of accounts (COA) is a list of financial accounts and reference numbers, grouped into categories, such as assets, liabilities, equity, revenue and expenses, and used for recording transactions in the organization's general ledger. Accounts may be associated with an identifier (account number) and a caption or header and are coded by ...
The historical cost of an asset at the time it is acquired or created is the value of the costs incurred in acquiring or creating the asset, comprising the consideration paid to acquire or create the asset plus transaction costs. [1] Historical cost accounting involves reporting assets and liabilities at their historical costs, which are not ...