Deloitte comments on the IASB's proposed improvements to IFRS 8

05 July 2017

Deloitte has responded to the IASB's Exposure Draft 2017/2, Improvements to IFRS 8 Operating Segments.

Deloitte generally agrees with the clarifications to IFRS 8 but has concerns with the practicability of the proposed requirement to disclose and justify differences in reportable segments between the financial statements and other parts of an annual reporting package and of the extended list of measures considered to demonstrate ‘similar economic characteristics’ and recommend that a transitional provision be added to allow any change to the impairment testing of goodwill resulting from a change to the identified chief operating decision maker (and, therefore, to the operating segments identified) to be applied prospectively.

In addition, Deloitte notes that developments in technology enabling a chief operating decision maker to access information tailored to their specifications as and when they need it are not addressed by the exposure draft.

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