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entity only.
Accounting Standards Counsel- Accounting is a
service activity. The accounting function is to External Transaction- economic events involving one
provide quantitative information, primarily entity and another entity.
financial in nature, about economic entities,
that is intended to be useful in making
MEASURING- as the technical component.
economic decision.
Figuring out the values or the amount of the
transaction.
American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants- Accounting is the art of recording,
COMMUNICATING- as the formal component.
classifying and summarizing in a significant
The process of preparing and distributing
manner and in terms of money, transactions
accounting reports to potential users. The
and events which are in part at least of a
reason why accounting is called “The universal
financial character and interpreting the results
language of business”.
thereof.
Education- this sector employs CPAs as Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines- 1
professors, reviewers, or researchers. Commission on Audit- 1
CPA of Education are part of the National Association Bureau of Internal Revenue- 1
of Certified Public Accountants in Education (NACPAE)
PICPA (Public Practice)- 2
Philippine Financial Reporting Standard (PFRS)- 5. To protect the Certificate of Certified Public
Includes: Accountant granted by the Republic of the Philippines.
Going Concern- financial statements are normally This is an essential characteristic of a liability. An
prepared with the assumption that the company is a obligation is a duty or responsibility to act or perform in
going concern (tuloy-tuloy at hindi mag-liquidate or certain way. Obligations are established by contract,
mag-end) and will continue operation for the legislation or similar means. Obligations may also arise,
foreseeable future. That there is neither a need or an however, from an entity’s customary practices,
intention to liquidate. published policies or specific statements if the entity
has no practical ability to act in a manner inconsistent
The Elements of Financial Statements with those practices, polices or statements. These are
sometimes referred to as a “constructive obligation”
Financial statements portray the financial effects of
transactions and other events by grouping them into
broad classes: 2. Obligation to transfer an economic resource
Financial Position - the elements directly The settlement of a present obligation usually involves
related to the measurement of financial the entity giving up resources embodying economic
position are assets, liabilities and equity. benefits in order to satisfy the claim of the other party
Financial performance - the elements directly Settlement may be by payment of cash, transfer of
related to the measurement of profit are other assets, provision of services, replacement of that
income and expenses. obligation with another obligation or conversion of the
obligation to equity.
Financial statements also show the results of the An entity may present a single statement of profit or
management’s stewardship of the resources entrusted loss and other comprehensive income, with profit or
to it. loss and other comprehensive income presented in two
sections.
This are the Standards and Interpretations issued by the
International Accounting Standards Boards (IASB). The sections shall be presented together, with the profit
or loss section presented first followed directly by the
They comprise: other comprehensive income section.
1. International Financial Reporting Standards An entity may present the profit or loss section in a
separate statement of profit or loss. If so, the separate
2. International Standards
statement of profit or loss shall immediately precede
3. IFRIC Interpretations the statement presenting comprehensive income,
which shall begin with profit or loss.
4. SIC Interpretations
GENERAL FEATURES
COMPLETE SET OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Fair presentation and compliance with PFRS-
1. SFP- Balance Sheet
2. Statement of P/L and Comprehensive- Financial statements shall present fairly the financial
Income Statement position, financial performance and cash flows of an
3. Statement of Changes in Equity entity. Fair presentation requires the faithful
4. Statement of Cash Flow representation of the effects of transactions, other
5. Notes to Financial Statements- events and conditions in accordance with the
significant notes of the company and definitions and recognition criteria for assets, liabilities,
the financial statements. income and expenses set out in the Framework. An
entity whose financial statements comply with PFRSs
shall make an explicit and unreserved statement of such Offsetting
compliance in the notes.
An entity shall not offset assets and liabilities or income
Going Concern- and expenses, unless required or permitted by a PFRS.
An entity reports separately both assets and liabilities,
When preparing financial statements, management
and income and expenses. Measuring assets net of
shall make an assessment of an entity’s ability to
valuation allowances—for example, obsolescence
continue as a going concern. An entity shall prepare
allowances on inventories and doubtful debts
financial statements on a going concern basis unless
allowances on receivables—is not offsetting.
management either intends to liquidate the entity or to
cease trading, or has no realistic alternative but to do Frequency of Reporting
so. When an entity does not prepare financial
An entity shall present a complete set of financial
statements on a going concern basis, it shall disclose
statements (including comparative information) at least
that fact, together with the basis on which it prepared
annually. When an entity changes the end of its
the financial statements and the reason why the entity
reporting period and presents financial statements for a
is not regarded as a going concern.
period longer or shorter than one year, an entity shall
disclose, in addition to the period covered by the
financial statements:
Accrual Basis of Accounting-
a. the reason for using a longer or shorter period, and
An entity shall prepare its financial statements, except
for cash flow information, using the accrual basis of b. the fact that amounts presented in the financial
accounting. statements are not entirely comparable.
When the accrual basis of accounting is used, an entity Normally, an entity consistently prepares financial
recognizes items as assets, liabilities, equities, income statements for a one- year period. However, for
and expenses (the elements of financial statements) practical reasons, some entities prefer to report, for
when they satisfy the definitions and recognition example, for a 52-week period. The Standard does not
criteria for those elements in the Conceptual preclude this practice.
Framework.
Comparative Information
Materiality and Aggregation
Except when IFRSs permit or require otherwise, an
An entity shall present separately each material class of entity shall present comparative information in respect
similar items. An entity shall present separately items of of the preceding period for all amount reported in the
a dissimilar nature or function unless they are current period’s financial statements. An entity shall
immaterial. Financial statements result from processing include comparative information for narrative and
large numbers of transactions or other events that are descriptive information if it is relevant to understanding
aggregated into classes according to their nature or the current period’s financial statements.
function. The final stage in the process of aggregation
and classification is the presentation of condensed and
classified data, which form line items in the financial Consistency of Presentation
statements.
An entity shall retain the presentation and classification
Material —> separate of items in the financial statements from one period to
the next unless:
Similar Immaterial —> aggregate
a. it is apparent, following a significant change in the
Material —> separate
nature of the entity’s operations or a review of its
Dissimilar Immaterial —> aggregate financial statements, that another presentation or
classification would be more appropriate having regard
to the criteria for the selection and application of An entity makes the judgement about whether to
accounting policies in AS 8; or present additional items separately on the basis of an
assessment of:
b. a PFRS requires a change in presentation
a. the nature and liquidity of assets;
Examples:
Revenue, presenting separately: Unrealized gain or loss on debt investment
measured at fair value through other
- Interest revenue calculated using the effective interest
comprehensive income.
method; and
Gain or loss from translating the financial
- Insurance revenue under IFRS 17; statements of a foreign operation
Revaluation surplus during the year
Gains and losses arising from the derecognition
Unrealized gain or loss from derivative
of financial assets measured at amortized cost;
contracts designated as cash flow hedge
Insurance service expenses from contracts
Remeasurements of defined benefit plan:
issued within the scope of IFRS 17;
–Actuarial gain and loss on projected benefit An entity shall disclose reclassification
obligation adjustments relating to components of other
–The difference between actual return on plan comprehensive income.
assets and interest income on fair value of plan Other IFRSs specify whether and when
assets amounts previously recognized in other
–Change in the effect of asset ceiling minus comprehensive income are reclassified to profit
interest on the beginning effect of asset ceiling or loss. Such reclassifications are referred to as
An entity shall present additional line items, reclassification adjustments.
headings and subtotals in the statement(s) A reclassification adjustment is included with
presenting profit or loss and other the related component of other comprehensive
comprehensive income when such income in the period that the adjustment is
presentation is relevant to an understanding of reclassified to profit or loss.
the entity’s financial performance. The amounts may have been recognized in
Subtotals, after presenting additional line other comprehensive income as unrealized
items, shall be: gains in the current or previous periods.
- Be comprised of line items made up of Those unrealized gains must be deducted from
amounts recognized and measured in other comprehensive income in the period in
accordance with IFRS; which the realized gains are reclassified to
- Be presented and labelled in a manner that profit or loss to avoid including them in total
makes the line items that constitute the comprehensive income.
subtotal clear and understandable;
- Be consistent from period to period;
- Not be displayed with more prominence that
the subtotals and totals required in IFRS for the
statement(s) presenting profit or loss and other Other comprehensive income that will be reclassified
comprehensive income. subsequently to P/L:
Because the effects of an entity’s various - Gains or loss from translating financial statements of a
activities, transactions and other events differ foreign operation
in frequency, potential for gain or loss and
predictability, disclosing the components of - Unrealized gain or loss on derivative contracts
financial performance assists users in designated as a cash flow hedge
understanding the financial performance - Unrealized gain or loss on debt investment measured
achieved and in making projections of future at fair value through OCI.
financial performance.
An entity shall not present any items of income
or expense as extraordinary items, in the
Other comprehensive income that will NOT be
statement(s) presenting profit or loss and other
reclassified subsequently to P/L:
comprehensive income.
An entity shall recognize all items of income - Unrealized gain or loss on equity investment measured
and expense in a period in profit or loss unless at fair value through OCI (reclassified to retained
an IFRS requires or permits otherwise. earnings upon investment disposal)
An entity shall disclose the amount of income
- Change in revaluation surplus (realization is through
tax relating to each item of other
retained earnings)
comprehensive income, including
reclassification adjustments, either in the - Remeasurements of a defined benefit plan (not
statement of profit or loss and other recycled subsequently to profit or loss but maybe
comprehensive income or in the notes. transferred with equity or retained earnings)
- Gain or loss attributable to credit risk of a financial STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
liability designated at fair value through profit or loss
An entity classifying by expenses by function shall
(gain or loss may be recycled within equity or retained
disclose additional information on the nature of
earnings)
expenses, including depreciation and amortization
expense and employee benefits expense.
An entity shall present an analysis of expenses A. total comprehensive income for the period, showing
recognized in profit or loss using separately the total amounts attributable to owners of
reclassification using a classification based on the parent and to non-controlling interests;
either their nature or their function within the
B. for each component of equity, the effects of
equity, whichever provides information that is
retrospective application or retrospective restatement
reliable and more relevant.
recognized; and
An entity classifying by expenses by function C. for each component of equity, a reconciliation
shall disclose additional information on the between the carrying amount at the beginning and the
nature of expenses, including depreciation and end of the period, separately (as a minimum) disclosing
amortization expense and employee benefits changes resulting from:
expense.
I. profit or loss;