Financial Reporting Council (FRC) have announced today their proposals for incremental improvements and clarifications to FRS 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland following the results of its triennial review of FRS 102.
The proposed simplifications are primarily designed to make it more cost effective to apply and use FRS 102.
The principal amendments proposed are:
- Simplifying the accounting for directors’ loans by small entities by no longer requiring a market rate of interest to be estimated;
- Requiring fewer intangible assets to be separated from goodwill in a business combination; and
- Permitting investment property rented to another group entity to be measured based on cost (rather than fair value).
In addition, amendments proposed to the classification of financial instruments will allow more of them to be measured based on cost (rather than fair value) and fewer entities will be classified as financial institutions required to provide enhanced disclosures about financial instruments.
Consequential amendments are proposed to the other UK and Ireland accounting standards for consistency with FRS 102, most of which will apply to the micro-entities regime (FRS 105). However, the changes are not likely to significantly impact micro-entities because they relate to the areas where FRS 105 is already simplified.
The consultation paper FRED 67 Draft amendments to FRS 102 can be found here.
Responses to FRED 67 should be sent to ukfrs@frc.org.uk by 30 June 2017.
The FRC aims to finalise the amendments in December 2017, with an effective date of accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2019. Early application will be permitted.
Impact of major changes in IFRS on FRS 102
The current proposals do not incorporate into FRS 102 the upcoming major changes in IFRS mainly the expected loss model of IFRS 9 Financial Instruments, IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers and IFRS 16 Leases.
These changes will be considered in a separate phase of the triennial review. Any resulting amendments to FRS 102 will not be effective before 1 January 2022.
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