Accounting Standard AASB 2022-4 Amendments to Australian Accounting Standards – Disclosures in Special Purpose Financial Statements of Certain For-Profit Private Sector Entities
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Amendments to AASB 1057
7 Paragraphs 2 and 7 are amended (new text is underlined, deleted text is struck through) and paragraph 18A is added as follows:
2 This Standard applies to:
(a) each entity that is required to prepare financial reports in accordance with Part 2M.3 of the Corporations Act;
(b) general purpose financial statements of each not-for-profit reporting entity;
(c) each entity that elects to prepare financial statements that are, or are held out to be, general purpose financial statements;
(d) financial statements of General Government Sectors (GGSs) prepared in accordance with AASB 1049 Whole of Government and General Government Sector Financial Reporting;
(e) for-profit private sector entities that are required by legislation* to prepare financial statements that comply with either Australian Accounting Standards or accounting standards; and
(f) other for-profit private sector entities that are required only by their constituting document or another document to prepare financial statements that comply with Australian Accounting Standards, provided that the relevant document was created or amended on or after 1 July 2021.
* References in this Standard to ‘legislation’ mean legislation of a government in Australia.
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7 Except as specified in paragraph 20C, AASB 101 Presentation of Financial Statements, AASB 107 Statement of Cash Flows, AASB 108 Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors, and AASB 1048 Interpretation of Standards and AASB 1054 Australian Additional Disclosures apply to:
(a) each not-for-profit entity that is required to prepare financial reports in accordance with Part 2M.3 of the Corporations Act;
(b) general purpose financial statements of each not-for-profit entity that is a reporting entity;
(c) each entity that elects to prepare financial statements that are, or are held out to be, general purpose financial statements;
(d) for-profit private sector entities that are required by legislation to prepare financial statements that comply with either Australian Accounting Standards or accounting standards; and
(e) other for-profit private sector entities that are required only by their constituting document or another document to prepare financial statements that comply with Australian Accounting Standards, provided that the relevant document was created or amended on or after 1 July 2021.
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18A AASB 1054 Australian Additional Disclosures applies to:
(a) each not-for-profit entity that is required to prepare financial reports in accordance with Part 2M.3 of the Corporations Act;