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AASB 133 - Earnings per Share - August 2015
7Examples of potential ordinary shares are:
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7 Examples of potential ordinary shares are:
(a) financial liabilities or equity instruments, including preference shares, that are convertible into ordinary shares;
(b) options and warrants;
(c) shares that would be issued upon the satisfaction of conditions resulting from contractual arrangements, such as the purchase of a business or other assets.
8 Terms defined in AASB 132 Financial Instruments: Presentation are used in this Standard with the meanings specified in paragraph 11 of AASB 132, unless otherwise noted. AASB 132 defines financial instrument, financial asset, financial liability and equity instrument, and provides guidance on applying those definitions. AASB 13 Fair Value Measurement defines fair value and sets out requirements for applying that definition.
Measurement
Basic earnings per share
9 An entity shall calculate basic earnings per share amounts for profit or loss attributable to ordinary equity holders of the parent entity and, if presented, profit or loss from continuing operations attributable to those equity holders.
10 Basic earnings per share shall be calculated by dividing profit or loss attributable to ordinary equity holders of the parent entity (the numerator) by the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding (the denominator) during the period.
11 The objective of basic earnings per share information is to provide a measure of the interests of each ordinary share of a parent entity in the performance of the entity over the reporting period.
Earnings
12 For the purpose of calculating basic earnings per share, the amounts attributable to ordinary equity holders of the parent entity in respect of:
(a) profit or loss from continuing operations attributable to the parent entity; and
(b) profit or loss attributable to the parent entity
shall be the amounts in (a) and (b) adjusted for the after-tax amounts of preference dividends, differences arising on the settlement of preference shares, and other similar effects of preference shares classified as equity.
13 All items of income and expense attributable to ordinary equity holders of the parent entity that are recognised in a period, including tax expense and dividends on preference shares classified as liabilities are included in the determination of profit or loss for the period attributable to ordinary equity holders of the parent entity (see AASB 101).