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September 30, 2008
Exposure Draft: Amendments to IFRS 1
Proposed relief for Canadian entities
On September 25, 2008 the IASB issued Exposure Draft (ED) Additional Exemptions for First-time Adopters – Proposed Amendments to IFRS 1. The proposed amendments are a result of efforts put forth by the AcSB and its IFRS Advisory Committee over the past year to identify areas requiring additional relief for Canada’s transition to IFRS.
If approved, the proposed amendments will provide relief in areas where the cost of retrospective application is likely to exceed the resulting benefits to users of financial statements. The greatest relief will be for Canadian entities in the oil and gas industry and those with rate-regulated operations.
The proposed amendments, if approved, would allow:
- A first-time adopter, who made the same determination of whether an arrangement contains a lease under Canadian GAAP (EIC-150) as that required by IFRIC 4, Determining whether an Arrangement contains a Lease, but at a date other than that required by IFRIC 4, to elect not to reassess that determination at the date of transition to IFRS. However, Canadian entities would need to assess those arrangements still existing at the date of transition which were not assessed prior to the effective date of EIC-150;
- A first-time adopter in the oil and gas industry using full cost accounting to elect, on transition to IFRS, to measure exploration, evaluation, development and production assets by allocating amounts previously recognized under Canadian GAAP. However, an impairment test on the date of transition and certain disclosures would be required; and
- A first-time adopter to use the Canadian GAAP carrying amount of property, plant and equipment used in operations subject to rate regulation as its deemed cost at the date of transition to IFRSs. However, the exemption would be available only if both retrospective restatement and using fair value as deemed cost are impracticable. A first-time adopter would apply this election on an item-by-item basis; additionally, an impairment test on the date of transition would be applied to these assets.
The ED comment deadline closes January 23, 2009.
Click here for more on the proposed amendments to IFRS 1.
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IFRS – Canada

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