In April 2001 the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) adopted IAS 34 Interim Financial Reporting, which had originally been issued by the International Accounting Standards Committee in 2000. IAS 34 that was issued in 2000 replaced the original version that was published in February 1998.

Other IFRSs have made minor consequential amendments to IAS 34. They include

Improvements to IFRSs (issued May 2010), IFRS 13 Fair Value Measurement (issued May 2011), IAS 19 Employee Benefits (issued June 2011), Presentation of Items of Other Comprehensive Income (Amendments to IAS 1) (issued June 2011), Annual Improvements to IFRSs 2009-2011 Cycle (issued May 2012) and Investment Entities (Amendments to IFRS 10, IFRS 12 and IAS 27) (issued October 2012).

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD 34

INTERIM FINANCIAL REPORTING

OBJECTIVE

SCOPE

DEFINITIONS

CONTENT OF AN INTERIM FINANCIAL REPORT

Minimum components of an interim financial report

Form and content of interim financial statements

Significant events and transactions

Other disclosures

Disclosure of compliance with IFRSs

Periods for which interim financial statements are required to be presented

Materiality

DISCLOSURE IN ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

RECOGNITION AND MEASUREMENT Same accounting policies as annual

Revenues received seasonally, cyclically, or occasionally

Costs incurred unevenly during the financial year

Applying the recognition and measurement principles

Use of estimates

RESTATEMENT OF PREVIOUSLY REPORTED INTERIM PERIODS

EFFECTIVE DATE

FOR THE ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTS LISTED BELOW, SEE PART B OF THIS

EDITION

BASIS FOR CONCLUSIONS

ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES

A   Illustration of periods required to be presented

B   Examples of applying the recognition and measurement principles

C   Examples of the use of estimates

International Accounting Standard 34 Interim Financial Reporting (IAS 34) is set out in paragraphs 1-54. All the paragraphs have equal authority but retain the IASC format of the Standard when it was adopted by the IASB. IAS 34 should be read in the context of its objective and the Basis for Conclusions, the Preface to International Financial Reporting Standards and the Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting. IAS 8 Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors provides a basis for selecting and applying accounting policies in the absence of explicit guidance.

Introduction

This Standard (IAS 34) addresses interim financial reporting, a matter not covered in a prior Standard. IAS 34 is effective for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 1999.

An interim financial report is a financial report that contains either a complete or condensed set of financial statements for a period shorter than an entity's full financial year.

This Standard does not mandate which entities should publish interim financial reports, how frequently, or how soon after the end of an interim period. In IASC's judgement, those matters should be decided by national governments, securities regulators, stock exchanges, and accountancy bodies. This Standard applies if a company is required or elects to publish an interim financial report in accordance with Standards.

This Standard:

         defines the minimum content of an interim financial report, including

disclosures; and

         identifies the accounting recognition and measurement principles that

should be applied in an interim financial report.

The minimum content of an interim financial report is a condensed statement of financial position, a condensed statement or statements of profit or loss and other comprehensive income, a condensed statement of cash flows, a condensed statement of changes in equity, and selected explanatory notes. If an entity presents the items of profit or loss in a separate statement as described in paragraph 10A of IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements (as amended in 2011), it

presents interim condensed information from that statement.

On the presumption that anyone who reads an entity's interim report will also have access to its most recent annual report, virtually none of the notes to the annual financial statements are repeated or updated in the interim report. Instead, the interim notes include primarily an explanation of the events and changes that are significant to an understanding of the changes in financial position and performance of the entity since the end of the last annual reporting period.

An entity should apply the same accounting policies in its interim financial report as are applied in its annual financial statements, except for accounting policy changes made after the date of the most recent annual financial statements that are to be reflected in the next annual financial statements. The frequency of an entity's reporting—annual, half-yearly, or quarterly—should not affect the measurement of its annual results. To achieve that objective, measurements for interim reporting purposes are made on a year-to-date basis.

Part B of the illustrative examples accompanying the Standard provides guidance for applying the basic recognition and measurement principles at interim dates to various types of asset, liability, income, and expense. Income

tax expense for an interim period is based on an estimated average annual

effective income tax rate, consistent with the annual assessment of taxes.

              In deciding how to recognise, classify, or disclose an item for interim financial

reporting purposes, materiality is to be assessed in relation to the interim period financial data, not forecast annual data.

International Accounting Standard 34

Interim Financial Reporting

Objective

The objective of this Standard is to prescribe the minimum content of an interim financial report and to prescribe the principles for recognition and measurement in complete or condensed financial statements for an interim period. Timely and reliable interim financial reporting improves the ability of investors, creditors, and others to understand an entity's capacity to generate earnings and cash flows and its financial condition and liquidity.

Scope

              This Standard does not mandate which entities should be required to publish

interim financial reports, how frequently, or how soon after the end of an interim period. However, governments, securities regulators, stock exchanges, and accountancy bodies often require entities whose debt or equity securities are publicly traded to publish interim financial reports. This Standard applies if an entity is required or elects to publish an interim financial report in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs). The International Accounting Standards Committee1 encourages publicly traded entities to provide interim financial reports that conform to the recognition, measurement, and disclosure principles set out in this Standard. Specifically,

publicly traded entities are encouraged:

         to provide interim financial reports at least as of the end of the first half

of their financial year; and

         to make their interim financial reports available not later than 60 days

after the end of the interim period.

              Each financial report, annual or interim, is evaluated on its own for conformity

to IFRSs. The fact that an entity may not have provided interim financial reports during a particular financial year or may have provided interim financial reports that do not comply with this Standard does not prevent the entity's

annual financial statements from conforming to IFRSs if they otherwise do so.

              If an entity's interim financial report is described as complying with IFRSs, it

must comply with all of the requirements of this Standard. Paragraph 19 requires certain disclosures in that regard.

Definitions

              The following terms are used in this Standard with the meanings

specified:

     The International Accounting Standards Committee was succeeded by the International Accounting

Standards Board, which began operations in 2001.

Interim period is a financial reporting period shorter than a full financial year.

Interim financial report means a financial report containing either a

complete set of financial statements (as described in IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements (as revised in 2007)) or a set of condensed financial statements (as described in this Standard) for an interim period.

Content of an interim financial report

              IAS 1 defines a complete set of financial statements as including the following

components:

a statement of financial position as at the end of the period;

a statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income for the

period;

a statement of changes in equity for the period;

a statement of cash flows for the period;

notes, comprising a summary of significant accounting policies and

other explanatory information;

comparative information in respect of the preceding period as specified

in paragraphs 38 and 38A of IAS 1; and

a statement of financial position as at the beginning of the preceding

period when an entity applies an accounting policy retrospectively or makes a retrospective restatement of items in its financial statements, or when it reclassifies items in its financial statements in accordance with paragraphs 40A-40D of IAS 1.

An entity may use titles for the statements other than those used in this Standard. For example, an entity may use the title 'statement of comprehensive income' instead of 'statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income'.

              In the interest of timeliness and cost considerations and to avoid repetition of

information previously reported, an entity may be required to or may elect to provide less information at interim dates as compared with its annual financial statements. This Standard defines the minimum content of an interim financial report as including condensed financial statements and selected explanatory notes. The interim financial report is intended to provide an update on the latest complete set of annual financial statements. Accordingly, it focuses on new activities, events, and circumstances and does not duplicate information previously reported.

              Nothing in this Standard is intended to prohibit or discourage an entity from

publishing a complete set of financial statements (as described in IAS 1) in its interim financial report, rather than condensed financial statements and selected explanatory notes. Nor does this Standard prohibit or discourage an entity from including in condensed interim financial statements more than the minimum line items or selected explanatory notes as set out in this Standard. The recognition and measurement guidance in this Standard applies also to

complete financial statements for an interim period, and such statements would include all of the disclosures required by this Standard (particularly the selected note disclosures in paragraph 16A) as well as those required by other IFRSs.

Minimum components of an interim financial report

An interim financial report shall include, at a minimum, the following

components:

a condensed statement of financial position;

a condensed statement or condensed statements of profit or loss

and other comprehensive income;

a condensed statement of changes in equity;

a condensed statement of cash flows; and

selected explanatory notes.

If an entity presents items of profit or loss in a separate statement as described in paragraph 10A of IAS 1 (as amended in 2011), it presents interim condensed information from that statement.

Form and content of interim financial statements

If an entity publishes a complete set of financial statements in its interim

financial report, the form and content of those statements shall conform

to the requirements of IAS 1 for a complete set of financial statements.

If an entity publishes a set of condensed financial statements in its interim financial report, those condensed statements shall include, at a minimum, each of the headings and subtotals that were included in its most recent annual financial statements and the selected explanatory notes as required by this Standard. Additional line items or notes shall be included if their omission would make the condensed interim financial statements misleading.

In the statement that presents the components of profit or loss for an interim period, an entity shall present basic and diluted earnings per share for that period when the entity is within the scope of IAS 33

Earnings per Share.2

If an entity presents items of profit or loss in a separate statement as described in paragraph 10A of IAS 1 (as amended in 2011), it presents basic and diluted earnings per share in that statement.

IAS 1 (as revised in 2007) provides guidance on the structure of financial statements. The Implementation Guidance for IAS 1 illustrates ways in which the statement of financial position, statement of comprehensive income and statement of changes in equity may be presented.

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     This paragraph was amended by Improvements to IFRSs issued in May 2008 to clarify the scope of

IAS 34.

An interim financial report is prepared on a consolidated basis if the entity's most recent annual financial statements were consolidated statements. The parent's separate financial statements are not consistent or comparable with the consolidated statements in the most recent annual financial report. If an entity's annual financial report included the parent's separate financial statements in addition to consolidated financial statements, this Standard neither requires nor prohibits the inclusion of the parent's separate statements in the entity's interim financial report.

Significant events and transactions

An entity shall include in its interim financial report an explanation of events

and transactions that are significant to an understanding of the changes in financial position and performance of the entity since the end of the last annual reporting period. Information disclosed in relation to those events and transactions shall update the relevant information presented in the most recent annual financial report.

A user of an entity's interim financial report will have access to the most recent annual financial report of that entity. Therefore, it is unnecessary for the notes to an interim financial report to provide relatively insignificant updates to the information that was reported in the notes in the most recent annual financial report.

The following is a list of events and transactions for which disclosures would be required if they are significant: the list is not exhaustive.

the write-down of inventories to net realisable value and the reversal of

such a write-down;

recognition of a loss from the impairment of financial assets, property, plant and equipment, intangible assets, or other assets, and the reversal

of such an impairment loss;

the reversal of any provisions for the costs of restructuring;

acquisitions and disposals of items of property, plant and equipment;

commitments for the purchase of property, plant and equipment;

litigation settlements;

corrections of prior period errors;

changes in the business or economic circumstances that affect the fair

value of the entity's financial assets and financial liabilities, whether

those assets or liabilities are recognised at fair value or amortised cost;

any loan default or breach of a loan agreement that has not been

remedied on or before the end of the reporting period;

related party transactions;

transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy used in measuring

the fair value of financial instruments;

changes in the classification of financial assets as a result of a change in

the purpose or use of those assets; and

         changes in contingent liabilities or contingent assets.

Individual IFRSs provide guidance regarding disclosure requirements for many of the items listed in paragraph 15B. When an event or transaction is significant to an understanding of the changes in an entity's financial position or performance since the last annual reporting period, its interim financial report should provide an explanation of and an update to the relevant information included in the financial statements of the last annual reporting period.

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Other disclosures

In addition to disclosing significant events and transactions in

accordance with paragraphs 15-15C, an entity shall include the following information, in the notes to its interim financial statements, if not disclosed elsewhere in the interim financial report. The information shall normally be reported on a financial year-to-date basis.

a statement that the same accounting policies and methods of computation are followed in the interim financial statements as compared with the most recent annual financial statements or, if those policies or methods have been changed, a description of the nature and effect of the change.

explanatory comments about the seasonality or cyclicality of interim operations.

the nature and amount of items affecting assets, liabilities, equity, net income or cash flows that are unusual because of their nature, size or incidence.

the nature and amount of changes in estimates of amounts reported in prior interim periods of the current financial year or changes in estimates of amounts reported in prior financial years.

issues, repurchases and repayments of debt and equity securities.

dividends paid (aggregate or per share) separately for ordinary shares and other shares.

the following segment information (disclosure of segment

information is required in an entity's interim financial report only

if IFRS 8 Operating Segments requires that entity to disclose segment

information in its annual financial statements):

revenues from external customers, if included in the

measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker.

intersegment revenues, if included in the measure of

segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker

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