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HKAS 1 (Revised) Presentation of Financial Statements (HKICPA Standard setting department staff summary) A. Reason for revising HKAS 1 The main objective of revising HKAS1 was to aggregate information in financial statements on the basis of shared characteristics. It is useful to separate changes in equity (net assets) of an entity during a period arising from transactions with owners in their capacity as owners from other changes in equity. Therefore, the IASB decided that all owner changes in equity should be presented in statement of changes in equity, separately from non-owner changes in equity. B. Main features of HKAS 1 (Revised) – the impact on old standard 1. It affects the presentation of owner changes in equity and of comprehensive income. It does not, however, change the recognition, measurement or disclosure of specific transactions and other events required by other “HKFRS”. 2. It requires a. An entity to present, in a statement of changes in equity, all owner changes in equity. b. All non-owner changes in equity (i.e. comprehensive income) are required to present in one statement of comprehensive income or two statements. c. Components of comprehensive income are not permitted to be presented in the statement if changes in equity. 3. It requires an entity to present a statement of financial position as at the beginning of the earliest comparative period in a complete set of financial statement when the entity applies an accounting policy retrospectively in accordance with HKAS8 Accounting Polices, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors. 4. It requires an entity to disclose reclassification adjustments and income tax relating to each component of other comprehensive income. 5. It requires the presentation of dividends recognized as distribution to owners and related amount per share in the statement of changes in equity or in notes. (10 marks)

HKAS 1 (Revised) Presentation of Financial Statements Further explanation note 3. Main changes from previous requirements – (Rationale) a. Complete set of financial statement The Revised standard uses ‘statement of financial position’ and “statement of cash flows” to reflect more closely the function of those statements. It requires an entity to disclose comparative information in respect of previous period, e to disclose as a minimum two of each of the statement and related notes. b. Reporting owner changes in equity and comprehensive income The previous version of HKAS1 required i.

the presentation of an income statement that included items of income and expense recognized in profit or loss and those items of income and

ii.

expense not recognized in profit or loss to be presented in the statement of changes in equity.

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Statement of changes in equity comprising profit or loss, other items of income and expenses and the effect of changes in accounting policies and correction of errors as ‘statement of recognized income and expenses.

The revised versions requires i. Changes in equity arising from transactions with owners in their capacity as owners to be presented separately from non-owner changes in equity. ii. Income and expenses to be presented in one statement or in two statements iii. Components of other comprehensive income to be displayed in the statement of comprehensive income. iv. Total comprehensive income to be presented in financial statement. c. Other comprehensive income – reclassification adjustments and related tax effects It requires an entity to disclose income tax relating to each component of other comprehensive income where the previous version did not include such a requirement. Because the components often have tax rates different from

those applied to profit or loss.

HKAS 1 (Revised) Presentation of Financial Statements 3. Main changes from previous requirements – (Rationale) d. Presentation of dividends The previous version permitted disclosure of the amount of dividends recognized as distributions to equity holders and the related amount per share in the income statement, in the statement of changes in equity. New revised standard requires dividends recognized as distribution to owners and related amount per share to be presented in the statement of changes in equity or in notes. The purpose is to ensure that owner changes in equity are presented separately from non-owner changes in equity....