Introduction:

This Standard prescribes the basis for presentation of general purpose financial statements to ensure comparability both with the entity’s financial statements of previous periods and with the financial statements of other entities. It sets out overall requirements for the presentation of financial statements, guidelines for their structure and minimum requirements for their content.

Objectives:

Financial statements are a structured representation of the financial position and financial performance of an entity. The objective of financial statements is to provide information about the financial position, financial performance and cash flows of an entity that is useful to a wide range of users in making economic decisions.

Financial statements also show the results of the management’s stewardship of the resources entrusted to it. To meet this objective, financial statements provide information about an entity’s:

(a) assets;

(b) liabilities;

(c) equity;

(d) income and expenses, including gains and losses;

(e) contributions by and distributions to owners in their capacity as owners; and

(f) cash flows.

This information, along with other information in the notes, assists users of financial statements in predicting the entity’s future cash flows and, in particular, their timing and certainty

Who should attend:

Managers, head of department, bankers, non-financials and non-accountants as well as accountants and financials employees, professional businessmen, auditors, investors, staff and specialists as well as those nominated to join any of these previously mentioned positions.

Daily Outlines:

DAY 1:



Statement of financial position: Information to be presented in the statement of financial position

The statement of financial position shall include line items that present the following amounts:

(a) property, plant and equipment;

(b) investment property;

(c) intangible assets;

(d) financial assets (excluding amounts shown under (e), (h) and (i));

(e) investments accounted for using the equity method;

(f) biological assets;

(g) inventories;

(h) trade and other receivables;

(i) cash and cash equivalents;





DAY 2:



(j) the total of assets classified as held for sale and assets included in disposal groups classified as

held for sale in accordance with IFRS 5 Non-current Assets Held for Sale and Discontinued

Operations;

(k) trade and other payables;

(l) provisions;

(m) financial liabilities (excluding amounts shown under (k) and (l));

(n) liabilities and assets for current tax, as defined in IAS 12 Income Taxes;

(o) deferred tax liabilities and deferred tax assets, as defined in IAS 12;

(p) liabilities included in disposal groups classified as held for sale in accordance with IFRS 5;

(q) minority interest, presented within equity; and

(r) issued capital and reserves attributable to owners of the parent



DAY 3:

Statement of comprehensive income

An entity shall present all items of income and expense recognised in a period:

(a) in a single statement of comprehensive income, or

(b) in two statements: a statement displaying components of profit or loss (separate income statement) and a second statement beginning with profit or loss and displaying components of other comprehensive income (statement of comprehensive income).

Information to be presented in the statement of comprehensive income

As a minimum, the statement of comprehensive income shall include line items that present the following amounts for the period:

(a) revenue;

(b) finance costs;

(c) share of the profit or loss of associates and joint ventures accounted for using the equity

method;

(d) tax expense;

(e) a single amount comprising the total of:

(i) the post-tax profit or loss of discontinued operations and

(ii) the post-tax gain or loss recognised on the measurement to fair value less costs to sell or on the disposal of the assets or disposal group(s) constituting the discontinued operation;

(f) profit or loss;





DAY 4:



(g) each component of other comprehensive income classified by nature (excluding amounts in (h));

(h) share of the other comprehensive income of associates and joint ventures accounted for using the equity method; and

(i) total comprehensive income.





DAY 5:

Profit or loss for the period

An entity shall recognise all items of income and expense in a period in profit or loss unless an IFRS requires or permits otherwise.

Other comprehensive income for the period

An entity shall disclose the amount of income tax relating to each component of other comprehensive

income, including reclassification adjustments, either in the statement of comprehensive income or in the notes.

An entity may present components of other comprehensive income either:

(a) net of related tax effects, or

(b) before related tax effects with one amount shown for the aggregate amount of income tax relating to those components.

An entity shall disclose reclassification adjustments relating to components of other comprehensive income.

formation to be presented in the statement of comprehensive income or in the notes

When items of income or expense are material, an entity shall disclose their nature and amount separately.

Circumstances that would give rise to the separate disclosure of items of income and expense include:

(a) write-downs of inventories to net realisable value or of property, plant and equipment to recoverable

amount, as well as reversals of such write-downs;

(b) restructurings of the activities of an entity and reversals of any provisions for the costs of

restructuring;

(c) disposals of items of property, plant and equipment;

(d) disposals of investments;

(e) discontinued operations;

(f) litigation settlements; and

(g) other reversals of provisions.