Your essential guides to financial statements 

Our Guides to financial statements help you to prepare financial statements in accordance with IFRS Standards. They have two components:      

• Illustrative disclosures, including supplements, that illustrate one possible format for financial statements, based on a fictitious multinational corporation; and 
• Disclosure checklist, which identifies the disclosures that may be required based on currently effective standards.

Impact of IFRS 16

IFRS 16 Leases replaces the requirements in IAS 17 Leases and related interpretations, and is applicable for the first time for entities with an annual reporting period beginning on or after 1 January 2019.

Applying the new standard is expected to significantly affect the disclosures included in the financial statements of some companies. The areas to focus on include the following.

• Disclosure of the nature and effect of changes in accounting policies on leases. Disclosures may differ depending on the transition method chosen.
• New ‘business as usual’ disclosures in IFRS 16.

Our 2019 annual illustrative disclosures (PDF 2.9 MB) illustrate one possible way of doing this.

Improved disclosures

The quality and clarity of explanations of changes in accounting policies and their impacts are key. Investors and other stakeholders will be keenly interested in disclosures of changes in key judgements and estimates. 

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