This document contains a checklist for assessing the disclosure of accounting policies in financial statements. It contains 8 items to check if the significant accounting policies adopted have been disclosed, if there have been any changes to accounting policies, and if the fundamental accounting assumptions have been followed. It also checks if any specific exemptions given to the company regarding accounting policies or assumptions have been adequately disclosed. The checklist aims to ensure that the financial statements clearly disclose all significant accounting policies and assumptions in a complete and transparent manner.
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This document contains a checklist for assessing the disclosure of accounting policies in financial statements. It contains 8 items to check if the significant accounting policies adopted have been disclosed, if there have been any changes to accounting policies, and if the fundamental accounting assumptions have been followed. It also checks if any specific exemptions given to the company regarding accounting policies or assumptions have been adequately disclosed. The checklist aims to ensure that the financial statements clearly disclose all significant accounting policies and assumptions in a complete and transparent manner.
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Doc No.35 - A S - 1 - Disclosure of Accounting Policies
This document contains a checklist for assessing the disclosure of accounting policies in financial statements. It contains 8 items to check if the significant accounting policies adopted have been disclosed, if there have been any changes to accounting policies, and if the fundamental accounting assumptions have been followed. It also checks if any specific exemptions given to the company regarding accounting policies or assumptions have been adequately disclosed. The checklist aims to ensure that the financial statements clearly disclose all significant accounting policies and assumptions in a complete and transparent manner.
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This document contains a checklist for assessing the disclosure of accounting policies in financial statements. It contains 8 items to check if the significant accounting policies adopted have been disclosed, if there have been any changes to accounting policies, and if the fundamental accounting assumptions have been followed. It also checks if any specific exemptions given to the company regarding accounting policies or assumptions have been adequately disclosed. The checklist aims to ensure that the financial statements clearly disclose all significant accounting policies and assumptions in a complete and transparent manner.
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1. Whether all the significant accounting policies
adopted in the preparation and presentation of financial statements have been disclosed?
2. Whether the disclosure of the significant
accounting policies as such forms part of the financial statements?
3. Whether all the significant accounting policies
have been disclosed at one place?
4. Whether all the change in the accounting policies
which has a material effect in the current period has been disclosed?
5. Where the change in the accounting policies is
reasonably expected to have a material effect in later periods, whether the fact of such change has been appropriately disclosed in the period of adoption of change?
6. In the case of a change in accounting policies
which has a material effect in the current period:
(i) Whether the amount by which any item in the
financial statements is affected by such change has been ascertained and disclosed?
(ii) Where such amount is not ascertainable,
wholly or in part, whether such fact has been indicated?
7. (i) Where the fundamental accounting
assumption of ‘going concern’ has not been followed whether the fact has been disclosed?
(ii) Where the fundamental accounting
assumption of ‘consistency’ has not been followed whether the fact has been disclosed?
(iii)Where the fundamental accounting
assumption of ‘accrual’ has not been followed, whether the fact has been disclosed?
8. Announcement
Where a company has been given specific
exemption regarding any of the following matters, whether the fact of such exemption has been adequately disclosed in the accounts?
(i) Accounting policies required to be disclosed
under Schedule VI or any other provisions of the Companies Act, 1956. Sr. DESCRIPTION YES NO N/A REMARKS No.
(ii) Accounts have to be prepared on accrual
basis.
(iii) The fundamental accounting assumption of
going concern has not been followed and such fact has to be disclosed in the financial statements.