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Accounting Standard AASB 2020-5 Amendments to Australian Accounting Standards – Insurance Contracts
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Accounting Standard AASB 2020-5 Amendments to Australian Accounting Standards – Insurance Contracts
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54 The statement of financial position shall include line items that present the following amounts:
(da) portfolios groups of contracts within the scope of AASB 17 that are assets, disaggregated as required by paragraph 78 of AASB 17;
(ma) portfolios groups of contracts within the scope of AASB 17 that are liabilities, disaggregated as required by paragraph 78 of AASB 17;
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139R AASB 17, issued in July 2017, amended paragraphs 7, 54 and 82. AASB 2020-5 Amendments to Australian Accounting Standards – Insurance Contracts, issued in July 2020, further amended paragraph 54. An entity shall apply those amendments when it applies AASB 17.
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AASB 132 Financial Instruments: Presentation (August 2015, as amended)
| In the amendments to AASB 132 Financial Instruments: Presentation, paragraphs 4 and 97T are amended and amendments to paragraph AG36 and the heading preceding paragraph AG36 are added. New text is underlined and deleted text is struck through. |
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4 This Standard shall be applied by all entities to all types of financial instruments except:
(d) insurance contracts as defined in contracts within the scope of AASB 17 Insurance Contracts or investment contracts with discretionary participation features within the scope of AASB 17. However, this Standard applies to:
(i) derivatives that are embedded in contracts within the scope of AASB 17, if AASB 9 requires the entity to account for them separately.; and
(ii) investment components that are separated from contracts within the scope of AASB 17, if AASB 17 requires such separation, unless the separated investment component is an investment contract with discretionary participation features within the scope of AASB 17.
(iii) an issuer’s rights and obligations arising under insurance contracts that meet the definition of Moreover, an issuer shall apply this Standard to financial guarantee contracts, if the issuer applies AASB 9 in recognising and measuring the contracts. However, the issuer, but shall apply AASB 17 if the issuer elects, in accordance with paragraph 7(e) of AASB 17, to apply AASB 17 in recognising and measuring the contracts them.
(iv) an entity's rights and obligations that are financial instruments arising under credit card contracts, or similar contracts that provide credit or payment arrangements, that an entity issues that meet the definition of an insurance contract if the entity applies AASB 9 to those rights and obligations in accordance with paragraph 7(h) of AASB 17 and paragraph 2.1(e)(iv) of AASB 9.
(v) an entity's rights and obligations that are financial instruments arising under insurance contracts that an entity issues that limit the compensation for insured events to the amount otherwise required to settle the policyholder's obligation created by the contract if the entity elects, in accordance with paragraph 8A of AASB 17, to apply AASB 9 instead of AASB 17 to such contracts.
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97T AASB 17, issued in July 2017, amended paragraphs 4 and AG8, and added paragraph 33A. AASB 2020-5 Amendments to Australian Accounting Standards – Insurance Contracts, issued in July 2020, further amended paragraph 4 and amended paragraph AG36. An entity shall apply those amendments when it applies AASB 17.
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Treasury shares (paragraphs 33 and 34) (paragraphs 33–34)
AG36 An entity’s own equity instruments are not recognised as a financial asset regardless of the reason for which they are reacquired. Paragraph 33 requires an entity that reacquires its own equity instruments to deduct those equity instruments from equity (but see also paragraph 33A). However, when an entity holds its own equity on behalf of others, eg a financial institution holding its own equity on behalf of a client, there is an agency relationship and as a result those holdings are not included in the entity’s statement of financial position.
AASB 136 Impairment of Assets (August 2015, as amended)
| In the amendments to AASB 136 Impairment of Assets, paragraphs 2 and 140N are amended. New text is underlined. |
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