Chapter 10 - Accounting Standards
Chapter 10 - Accounting Standards
Chapter 10 - Accounting Standards
ACCOUNTING STANDARDS
1. INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING STANDARDS
Accounting Standards (ASs) are written policy documents issued by expert
accounting body or by government or other regulatory body covering the
aspects of recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure of accounting
transactions in the financial statements.
Accounting Standards reduce the accounting alternatives in the preparation of
financial statements
Types of Entities
Corporate Entities
Type Conditions Applicability of Accounting
Standard
Small and SMCs are companies that satisfy the Partial Exemption:
Medium following conditions: Certain relaxations are
Companies (a) Equity and debt securities of the provided with respect to
(SMCs) company are not listed or are not following Accounting
in the process of listing on any Standard:
stock exchange, whether in India AS 17 – Segment Reporting
or outside India AS 15 – Employee Benefits
(b) Company is not a bank or AS 19 – Leases
financial institution or insurance AS 20 – Earnings Per Share
company (EPS)
(c) Company’s turnover (excluding AS 29 – Provisions,
other income) does not exceed ₹ 50 contingent liabilities and
crores in the immediately contingent assets
preceding accounting year
(d) Company does not have Full Exemption
borrowing (including public AS 3 – Cash Flow
deposits) exceeding ₹ 10 crores at Statements, shall not
any time during the immediately apply to SMCs if it is a
preceding accounting year and One Person Company
(e) Company is not a holding (OPC), dormant company
company or subsidiary of a non- and Small Company
SMC.
Non-SMCs Any Other Corporate Entities not All the accounting
falling under SMCs standards are applicable to
Non-SMCs.
If there is conflict between Act and Accounting Standards, the provisions of the
Act shall prevail to that extent
The Accounting Standards (AS) issued by ICAI are prepared on the basis of the Indian
environment, while IFRS are prepared by considering the global environment as a
whole.
The Indian environment and Global environment are different which leads to a huge
gap between AS issued by ICAI & IFRS issued by IASB. So as to bridge the gap between AS
& IFRS, ICAI issued Ind AS converged with IFRS (formally known as Ind. AS)
Convergence of Indian Accounting Standards (IAS) with International Financial
Reporting Standards (IFRS) (Roadmap for convergence)
Convergence of its Ind ASs (Indian GAAP) with IFRS in a phased manner.
Initial roadmap was to achieve convergence in three phases starting April 2011 and
ending April 2014, it could not be implemented due to various reasons.
A revised roadmap for implementation of Ind ASs (Ind.. AS) finalized by the council
of the ICAI.
As stated in earlier roadmaps for achieving convergence, there shall be two
separate sets of Accounting Standards notified under the Companies Act, 1956.
First set would comprise the Indian Accounting Standards converged with the
IFRSs which shall be applicable for preparation of consolidated financial
statements as defined in the Companies Act, 2013, of the specified class of
companies.
Second set would comprise the existing notified Accounting Standards (AS) and
shall be applicable for preparation of Individual financial statements of the
companies preparing consolidated financial statement as per Ind. AS and for
financial statement of other companies.
As per the roadmap, the first set of Accounting Standards i.e. converged Indian
Accounting Standards (Ind. AS) shall be applied to the following specified class of
companies for preparing their first Indian Accounting Standards (Ind.. AS)
consolidated financial statements for the accounting period beginning on or
after 1st April, 2016, with comparatives for the year ending 31st March 2016 or
thereafter.
The MCA has issued Amendment Rules in the year 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 to
amend the 2015 rules.
Ind AS Disclosure of The objective of this Ind AS (Ind AS) is to require an entity to
112 Interests in disclose information that enables users of its
Other Entities financial statements to evaluate:
(a) the nature of, and risks associated with, its interests in other
entities; and
(b) the effects of those interests on its financial position, financial
performance and cash flows.
Interest in another entity refers to contractual and non-
contractual involvement that exposes an entity to variability of
returns from the performance of the other entity. An interest in
another entity can be evidenced by, but is not limited to, the
holding of equity or debt instruments as well as other forms of
involvement such as provision of funding, liquidity support, credit
enhancement and guarantees. It includes other means by which
the entity has control or joint control of, or significant
influence over another entity. An entity does not necessarily
have an interest in another entity solely because of a typical
customer supplier relationship.
Ind AS Fair Value This Ind AS:
113 Measurement (a) defines fair value;