AASB 101 Presentation of Financial Statements
Fair presentation, going concern and accounting basis – AASB 101 Presentation of Financial Statements

AASB 101 Presentation of Financial Statements 18-19: Treat departure from a standard as an extremely rare last resort

What does 18-19 require?

A poor accounting policy cannot be fixed by disclosing it, by a note explaining it away, or by extra explanatory material; it has to be the right policy in the first place. Only in genuinely extreme and rare cases, where sticking to a specific requirement would mislead users so badly that doing so works against the whole reason a general-purpose report exists, does the entity depart from that requirement, and even then only with the detailed disclosures the Standard sets for such a departure.

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