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International Accounting Standard (IAS) 27
Consolidated and Separate Financial Statements


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International Accounting Standard (IAS) 27
  
   IAS 27
   Consolidated and Separate Financial Statements
   Issued in April 1989
   Revised in December 2003
   Recent amendment: Amended in January 2008
  
   The term "non-controlling interest" replaced "minority interest"
      --> amended in January 2008
  
   Non-controlling interest
      --> equity in a subsidiary
      --> not attributable to a parent (directly or indirectly)
  
   A parent
      --> an entity that owns one or more subsidiaries
  
   A subsidiary
      --> an entity that is controlled by the parent
  
   Consolidated financial statements are presented by a parent.
  
   All subsidiaries are included in consolidated financial statements.
  
   Consolidated financial statements present
      --> financial information of the parent and its subsidiaries
      --> as a single economic entity
  
   Steps:

      (1) Eliminate
           --> parent's investment in subsidiaries
                 and
           --> parent's portion of subsidiary's equity
 
      (2) Identity
           --> non-controlling interests
           --> in the profit or loss of consolidated subsidiaries
           
      (3) Identity
           --> non-controlling interests
           --> in the net assets of consolidated subsidiaries
  
   Eliminate (in full):
      (1) intragroup balances
      (2) intragroup transactions
      (3) intragroup income and expenses
  
   Uniform accounting policies are used
      --> in preparing consolidated financial statements
  
   Non-controlling interests
      --> presented in the consolidated statement of financial position
      --> in the equity section
  
   Non-controlling interests
      --> reported separately from the equity of
      --> the owners of the parent
  
  




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