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Accounting policies, changes estimates and errors and disclosure (1)
Accounting policies, changes estimates and errors and disclosure (1)
Accounting policies, changes estimates and errors and disclosure (1)
(a) the period of the change, if the change affects that period only; or
(b) the period of the change and future periods, if the change affects both.’
Disclosure of changes in estimates
Which one is
harder to apply?
Retrospective restatement
or application
• Retrospective restatement:
Used for the correction of a material error that occurred in a previous
period in the first financial statements issued after the discovery of the
error.
Is it practical?
Loftus, J., et al. (2023). Financial Reporting (4th ed.). Milton, QLD: John Wiley
and Sons Australia, Ltd. Available at: https://www.wileydirect.com.au/buy/financial-reporting/