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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
  1. 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 reports1. This Standard applies if an entity is required or elects to publish an interim financial report in accordance with Indian Accounting Standards (Ind ASs). [Refer Appendix 1]
  2. Each financial report, annual or interim, is evaluated on its own for conformity to Ind ASs. 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

# This Ind AS was notified vide G.S.R. 111(E) dated 16th February, 2015 and was amended vide Notification No. G.S.R. 365(E) dated 30th March, 2016, G.S.R. 310(E) dated 28th March, 2018, G.S.R. 463(E) dated 24th July, 2020 and G.S.R. 419(E) dated 18th June, 2021.

1  Unaudited Financial Results required to be prepared and presented under Clause 41 of Listing Agreement with stock exchanges is not an ‘Interim Financial Report’ as defined in paragraph 4 of this Standard

conforming to Ind ASs if they otherwise do so.

  1. If an entity’s interim financial report is described as complying with Ind ASs, 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:

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 Ind AS 1, Presentation of Financial Statements, or a set of condensed financial statements (as described in this Standard) for an interim period.

Content of an interim financial report
  1. Ind AS 1 defines a complete set of financial statements as including the following components:
    1. a balance sheet as at the end of the period ;
    2. a statement of profit and loss for the period;
    3. a statement of changes in equity for the period;;
    4. a statement of cash flows for the period;
    5. 2notes, comprising material accounting policy information and other explanatory information;

(ea) comparative information in respect of the preceding period as specified in paragraphs 38 and 38A of Ind AS 1; and

  1. a balance sheet 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

2 Substituted vide Notification No. G.S.R. 365(E) dated 30th March, 2016.

statements in accordance with paragraphs 40A–40D of Ind AS 1.

  1. 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.
  2. Nothing in this Standard is intended to prohibit or discourage an entity from publishing a complete set of financial statements (as described in Ind AS 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 Ind ASs.
Minimum components of an interim financial report
  • An interim financial report shall include, at a minimum, the following components:
  • a condensed balance sheet ;
  • a condensed statement of profit and loss;
  • a condensed statement of changes in equity;
  • a condensed statement of cash flows; and
  • selected explanatory notes. 8A [Refer Appendix 1]
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  • Form and content of interim financial statements
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  • 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 Ind AS 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 Ind AS 33, Earnings per Share.

11A [Refer Appendix 1]

  1. [Refer Appendix 1]
  2. [Refer Appendix 1]
  3. 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
  1. 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.

15A 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.

15B The following is a list of events and transactions for which disclosures would be required if they are significant: the list is not exhaustive.

  1. the write-down of inventories to net realisable value and the reversal of such a write-down;
  2. 3recognition of a loss from the impairment of financial assets, property, plant and equipment, intangible assets, assets arising from contracts with customers, or other assets, and the reversal of such an impairment loss;
  3. the reversal of any provisions for the costs of restructuring;
  4. acquisitions and disposals of items of property, plant and equipment;
  5. commitments for the purchase of property, plant and equipment;
  6. litigation settlements;
  7. corrections of prior period errors;
  8. 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;
  9. any loan default or breach of a loan agreement that has not been remedied on or before the end of the reporting period;
  10. related party transactions;
  11. transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy used in measuring the fair value of financial instruments;
  12. changes in the classification of financial assets as a result of a

3 Substituted vide Notification No. G.S.R. 365(E) dated 30th March, 2016 and, thereafter, substituted vide Notification No. G.S.R. 310(E) dated 28th March, 2018.

change in the purpose or use of those assets; and

  1. changes in contingent liabilities or contingent assets.

15C Individual Ind ASs 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.

16-18 [Refer Appendix 1]

Other Disclosures

4In 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, or elsewhere in the interim financial report. The following disclosures shall be given either in the interim financial statements or incorporated by cross-reference from the interim financial statements to some other statement (such as management commentary or risk report) that is available to users of the financial statements on the same terms as the interim financial statements and at the same time. If users of the financial statements do not have access to the information incorporated by cross reference on the same terms and at the same time, the interim financial report is incomplete. 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,

4 Substituted vide Notification No. G.S.R. 365(E) dated 30th March, 2016.

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 shares5.
  • the following segment information (disclosure of segment information is required in an entity’s interim financial report only if Ind AS 108, 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.
  • a measure of segment profit or loss.
  • a measure of total assets and liabilities for a particular reportable segment if such amounts are regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker and if there has been a material change from the amount disclosed in the last annual financial statements for that reportable segment.
  • a description of differences from the last annual financial statements in the basis of segmentation or in the basis of measurement of segment profit or

 

5 Here ‘ordinary’ shares refer to ‘equity’ shares

loss.

  • a reconciliation of the total of the reportable segments’ measures of profit or loss to the entity’s profit or loss before tax expense (tax income) and discontinued operations. However, if an entity allocates to reportable segments items such as tax expense (tax income), the entity may reconcile the total of the segments’ measures of profit or loss to profit or loss after those items. Material reconciling items shall be separately identified and described in that reconciliation.
  • events after the interim period that have not been reflected in the financial statements for the interim period.
  • the effect of changes in the composition of the entity during the interim period, including business combinations, obtaining or losing control of subsidiaries and long-term investments, restructurings, and discontinued operations. In the case of business combinations, the entity shall disclose the information required by Ind AS 103, Business Combinations.
  • for financial instruments, the disclosures about fair value required by paragraphs 91–93(h), 94–96, 98 and 99 of Ind AS 113, Fair Value Measurement, and paragraphs 25, 26 and 28– 30 of Ind AS 107, Financial Instruments: Disclosures.
  • for entities becoming, or ceasing to be, investment entities, as defined in Ind AS 110, Consolidated Financial Statements, the disclosures in Ind AS 112, Disclosure of Interests in Other Entities paragraph 9B.

6the disaggregation of revenue from contracts with customers required by paragraphs 114-115 of Ind AS 115, Revenue from Contracts with Customers.

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