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IAS 10 Events After The Reporting Period

This document summarizes IAS 10, which addresses events after the reporting period. It distinguishes between adjusting events, which provide evidence of conditions that existed at the reporting date and require adjustment to the financial statements, and non-adjusting events, which are indicative of conditions that arose after the reporting date and require disclosure if they would influence economic decisions. Examples of adjusting and non-adjusting events are provided. The cut-off date for considering events after the reporting period is the date the financial statements are authorized for issue. Equity dividends declared after the reporting date require disclosure but not recognition as a liability. A 'break-up' basis should be used if the going concern basis is clearly inappropriate.

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IAS 10 Events After The Reporting Period

This document summarizes IAS 10, which addresses events after the reporting period. It distinguishes between adjusting events, which provide evidence of conditions that existed at the reporting date and require adjustment to the financial statements, and non-adjusting events, which are indicative of conditions that arose after the reporting date and require disclosure if they would influence economic decisions. Examples of adjusting and non-adjusting events are provided. The cut-off date for considering events after the reporting period is the date the financial statements are authorized for issue. Equity dividends declared after the reporting date require disclosure but not recognition as a liability. A 'break-up' basis should be used if the going concern basis is clearly inappropriate.

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IAS 10 Events after reporting period Events after the reporting period are split into: Adjusting events:

: are events that provide evidence of conditions that existed at the reporting date, and the financial statements should be adjusted to reflect them. Examples include: Settlement of a court case that confirms that the entity had an obligation at the reporting date. Evidence that an asset was impaired at the reporting date (e.g. bankruptcy of a customer). Finalisations of prices for assets sold or purchased before year end. The discovery of fraud or errors that show that the financial statements are misstated An adjustment to the disclosed EPS (as par IAS 33) for transactions where the number of shares altered without an increase in resources (e.g. bonus issue, share split or share consolidation). Non-adjusting events: are events that are indicative of conditions that arose after the reporting date. Disclosure should be made in the financial statements where the outcome of a nonadjusting event would influence the economic decisions made by users of the financial statements. A major business combination after the reporting date (IFRS 3 or the disposing of a major subsidiary). Announcement of plan to discontinue an operation Major purchases and disposals of assets Classification of assets as held for sale Destruction of assets, for example by fire or flood Major ordinary share transactions (unless capitalisation or bonus issue) Decline in market value of investments

The cut-off date for the consideration of events after the reporting period is the date on which the financial statements are authorised for issue. - Normally the financial statements are authorised by the directors before being issued to the shareholders for approval. - Where a supervisory board is made up wholly of non-executive directors, the financial statements will first be authorised by the executive directors for issue to that supervisory board for its approval. The relevant cut-off date is the date on which the financial statements are authorised for issue to the supervisory board. - The date on which the financial statements were authorised for issue should be disclosed. If a significant event occurs after the authorisation of the financial statements but before the annual report is published, then the entity is not required to apply the requirements of IAS 10. - However, if the event was so material that it affects the entitys business and operations in the future, the entity may wish to discuss the event in the narrative section at the front of the Annual Review but outside of the financial statements themselves. Equity dividend (i.e. dividend to ordinary and irredeemable non-cumulative preference shares) should only be recognised as a liability where they have been declared before the reporting date, as this is the date on which the entity has an obligation. - Where equity dividends are declared after the reporting date, this fact should be disclosed but no liability recognised at the reporting date. Where the going-concern basis is clearly not appropriate, break-up basis should be adopted. - The break-up measures the assets at their recoverable amount in a non trading environment, and a provision is recognised for future costs that will be incurred to break-up the business.

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