Question 3IFRS

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IFRS5-3 Briefly describe the convergence efforts related to financial statement presentation.

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IASB and FASB both are working on projects to develop reporting standards of financial statements.

1Definition of Financial Statements

The statements that report the summary of all the business transactions that have financial nature are known as financial statements. It includes the balance sheet, income statement, and the statement of cash flow.

2Financial statement representation

IASB and FASB both are working on a project related to standards of reporting financial reporting. This project will develop standards that will be required for representing information in the financial statement and will also provide information regarding the classification of line items. This framework states that financial statements must be presented in such a way that all activities are classified as investing, operating, and financing. Financing activities must be further classified into owner and creditors transactions. The same classification must be used in the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flow.

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