Consolidated Financial Statements, Definitions Ind AS 27

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IAS 27 Consolidated and Separate Financial Statements outlines when an entity must consolidate another entity, how to account for a change in ownership interest, how to prepare separate financial statements, and related disclosures. Consolidation is based on the concept of ‘control’ and changes in ownership interests while control is maintained are accounted for as transactions between owners as owners in equity.

IAS 27 was reissued in January 2008 and applies to annual periods beginning on or after 1 July 2009, and is superseded by IAS 27 Separate Financial Statements and IFRS 10 Consolidated Financial Statements with effect from annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2013.

Objectives of IAS 27

IAS 27 has the twin objectives of setting standards to be applied:

  • In the preparation and presentation of consolidated financial statements for a group of entities under the control of a parent;
  • In accounting for investments in subsidiaries, jointly controlled entities, and associates when an entity elects, or is required by local regulations, to present separate (non-consolidated) financial statements.

Definitions [IAS 27.4]

Consolidated financial statements: the financial statements of a group presented as those of a single economic entity.

Subsidiary: an entity, including an unincorporated entity such as a partnership that is controlled by another entity (known as the parent).

Parent: an entity that has one or more subsidiaries.

Control: the power to govern the financial and operating policies of an entity so as to obtain benefits from its activities.

Scope

This Standard shall be applied in the preparation and presentation of consolidated financial statements for a group of entities under the control of a parent.

This Standard does not deal with methods of accounting for business combinations and their effects on consolidation, including goodwill arising on a business combination (see Ind AS 103 Business Combinations).

This Standard shall also be applied in accounting for investments in subsidiaries, jointly controlled entities and associates when an entity elects, or is required by law, to present separate financial statements.

Definitions

The following terms are used in this Standard with the meanings specified:

Consolidated financial statements are the financial statements of a group presented as those of a single economic entity.

Control is the power to govern the financial and operating policies of an entity so as to obtain benefits from its activities.

A group is a parent and all its subsidiaries.

Non-controlling interest is the equity in a subsidiary not attributable, directly or indirectly, to a parent.

A parent is an entity that has one or more subsidiaries.

Separate financial statements are those presented by a parent, an investor in an associate or a venturer in a jointly controlled entity, in which the investments are accounted for on the basis of the direct equity interest rather than on the basis of the reported results and net assets of the investees.

A subsidiary is an entity, including an unincorporated entity such as a partnership, that is controlled by another entity (known as the parent).

A parent or its subsidiary may be an investor in an associate or a venturer in a jointly controlled entity. In such cases, consolidated financial statements prepared and presented in accordance with this Standard are also prepared so as to comply with Ind AS 28 Investments in Associates and Ind AS 31 Interests in Joint Ventures.

6 For an entity described in paragraph 5, separate financial statements are those prepared and presented in addition to the financial statements referred to in paragraph 5. Separate financial statements need not be appended to, or accompany, those statements, unless required by law.

The financial statements of an entity that does not have a subsidiary, associate or venturers interest in a jointly controlled entity are not separate financial statements.

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